Calling for Frank: Little-known police unit helps Omahans in crisis. That includes me.

Natalya Flaten heard the officer ask for the “Frank Unit” on police radio on a recent winter morning. Rising behind her desk nestled among sergeants’ in the Omaha Southwest Precinct office, Flaten put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed her case brimming with program pamphlets and climbed in a city vehicle, driving to meet police officers on scene.

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