Ahead of a week of action for response policing, the ECHO joined Merseyside Police responding to emergency calls across south Liverpool and the city centre
12.15pm - four police officers pull up outside a bail hostel in Aigburth to arrest a man for breaching the conditions of his licence.
1.25pm - The officers arrive at a block of student flats. Although the officers only just received the call, the incident in question happened two nights before. An officer emerges after five minutes holding a bag of items which will be taken into evidence. He says the report was filed after "eight young lads kicked their way through the security doors, hung around inside smoking vapes and making a mess".
2.47pm - Another emergency call has come in, this time that a suicidal male has occupied part of the Liverpool Central Library. An officer at the scene tells the ECHO the man has told people in the library he went to the Royal Liverpool Hospital earlier in the day but had been turned away and now felt like he had nowhere else to turn.
The incidents they can respond to will range from someone being seriously injured or a person suffering with a mental health crisis, to dealing with someone in distress or a report of a high-risk missing person. "You are scared but you put those emotions to the back of your mind and you think about the safety of the public. Hundreds of people were there and my sole priority was looking after them. You take it one day at a time. We make sure we do everything and then decompress and move on."
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