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Just a few nights ago my partner and I were dispatched to a "non-violent" psych pt. After staging for about 5 or 6 minutes i asked my control center if PD was on scene, and was told "your scene is secure, pd isn't needed". We entered the scene, made patient contact, and the first words out of our pt's mouth was "I feel like killing someone".... Of course I had to ask "it's not me is it?" I have never worked in dispatch, so my question is how do thes EMD's determine if a psych pt is violent or non-violent. Needless to say, since i am still around, I wasn't the one he felt like killing, but we did leave the scene until PD arrived.