WESTBROOK – A police K-9 helped save a suicidal woman in Westbrook this weekend.

According to Westbrook police, at about 10 p.m. on Saturday officers responded to the report that a suicidal person had run into the woods off of Andover Road. The distraught 25-year-old woman had made one suicide attempt and fled from people who were trying to assist her. Officer Phil Robinson and his K9 Roxie and were quickly able to locate the woman and successfully interrupt a second suicide attempt, police said. The woman was transported to Maine Medical Center by Westbrook Rescue.

K9 Roxie was able to track the woman and located her well away from where she had initially been reported, police said.

Officer Phil Robinson and his K9 Roxie