Officer Suicide - The Study - Day 2

The success of any law enforcement officer depends on his or her ability to identify, handle, and control the stress that results from his professional obligations. Ideally, agencies should provide officers with the tools and training to resolve any event that causes the officers stress. If officers can recognize and harness these emotional responses as instructed in initial training, they may prevent injury to themselves the people around them or even death. In this episode we study how Officers cope with stressful events. We discuss the fight or flight response which results from the individual’s automatic response to a recognized threat to survival. As a result of their training, officers must deal with critical incidents in which they must react, recognize, and confidently cope in highly stressful situations on a daily basis.

This training program is a public service of The American Public Safety Training Institute found at www.tapsti.org