Officers from the New York Police Department scaled the Brooklyn Bridge to talk down a person from the Brooklyn Bridge after receiving multiple 911 calls about a person in distress on top of the bridge.

“You okay? My name is Chris,” an officer told the woman, who sat perilously close to the edge. “What’s your name? I just want to talk. What’s happening today? I want to help you. That’s why I’m up here right now. I genuinely care. I do.”

“It’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It really is,” the officer urged. “I don’t know what you’re going through, but I want to understand … we have services … the strongest thing you can do right now is accept help. I promise you, that’s the strongest thing you can do.”

As several officers carefully converged on the woman, a note of panic crept into the officer’s voice when the person started to move, as though about to slip down.

“Don’t do it, don’t do it, please, please, everything is going to be okay,” he implored her. “You’re not in trouble.”

Assuring her that they got her, the group pulled her back off the ledge.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch commended the officers for their courage and compassion.

“This video of a rescue last night on the Brooklyn Bridge will take your breath away,” Tisch wrote in an emotional post. “High above the East River, NYPD ESU officers climbed onto the Brooklyn Bridge to reach a woman in crisis who was threatening to jump.”

“For nearly an hour, they stayed with her, spoke with her, and waited for the moment they could safely pull her back from the edge,” she recounted. “The care, courage, and compassion these officers showed was just extraordinary. May God bless them.”