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NYPD Building Wellness, Mental-Health Resources

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 8/6/19

 Following yet another suicide by an NYPD officer, the department detailed its efforts to combat what is bordering on an epidemic.

Sgt. Terrance J. McAvoy, an 8-year cop assigned to the department’s transit detail, shot and killed himself on July 27. Sergeant McAvoy, 30, was the seventh officer to die by his own hand this year and the fifth in less than eight weeks.

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