Preventing Police Suicides

When one of Sgt. Andy Callaghan's closest friends committed suicide, he said at his friend's eulogy, "I’m sad I couldn't help him." Callaghan heads up the Philadelphia Police Department's Law Enforcement Peer Support Network. He recognized signs that his friend needed help and took him to treatment. "But he walked off the campus where he was being treated and went home and picked up a gun and killed himself," says Callaghan. "It was awful." Yet there are so many more who have been helped.