Sergeant Kevin Briggs (also known as the Guardian of the Golden Gate Bridge[1][2]) is a California Highway Patrol officer noted for his work in suicide intervention, having dissuaded more than two hundred people from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay.
[3] In 2013, Briggs retired from the California Highway Patrol to focus his efforts on suicide prevention.
Kevin Briggs joined the United States Army in 1981 and served for 3 years.
In 1994 he began patrolling the Golden Gate Bridge, estimating that he had dissuaded roughly two per month from committing suicide.
After his retirement from the California Highway Patrol, he plans on focusing his work on suicide prevention.