Despite estimates suggesting that around 15% of UK police incidents involve people with a mental health concern, officers receive very little mental health training. The police have faced high‐profile criticisms over their handling of mental health‐related incidents, whereas the underfunding and ...
Research on officer decision-making in mental health contexts is lacking, and police officers’ subjective experience of this response is rarely represented. Using a qualitative approach, the current study aimed to provide a description of the decision-making processes of police officers responding to ...
Table 5. Perceptions of Use of Mental Health Services View LargeDownload PerceptionExamples Lack of knowledge that an officer is experiencing a mental health issue “The stress level, we get so accustomed to having the stress that that’s the norm for us”; “Numb to it”; “You may not...
Officer Thomas has spent the past year and a half serving as the mental health crisis intervention officer at his station. A substantial part of his job addresses the concurrent mental health and homelessness crises. The pandemic has exacerbated both of these societal issues, and I...
After an officer joins the police force, they are expected to accept the fact that there will be violence and trauma in their line of work. There are no mental health checkpoints that officers are required to meet in order to continue working in these stressful conditions, forcing 1310 Words...
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Detention in police custody of people displaying signs of mental ill-health, in particular those detained under Section 135 (s135) or Section 136 (s136) of the Mental Health Act, 1983, has long been a cause of concern for the police custody officer. Few police stations have custody areas ap...
(Medical Xpress) -- The daily psychological stresses that police officers experience in their work put them at significantly higher risk than the general population for a host of long-term physical and mental health effects. That's the overall finding of
FREDERICTON — A Fredericton police officer killed in Friday’s shootings was passionate about mental health and helping her community, according to the executive director of a local housing centre for women in crisis. Article content Fiona Williams of Liberty Lane says she knew Const. Sara Burns ...