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Officer Safety And Wellness COPS OFFICE - United States Depart…

(5 days ago) People also askAre police a threat to public health?Substantial public health research demonstrates that police perpetrate harm, contribute to criminalization, and inhibit linkages to supportive social services. It is time for public health to reorient public safety programs and resources toward initiatives that do not involve the police and are rooted in care, equity, and prevention.Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health ajph.aphapublications.orgHow can polio affect social life?Dr. Masrath Begum

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Violence, Stress, Scrutiny Weigh On Police Mental Health

(Just Now) WEBLast year’s events have left another mark. Early data suggest that burnout and depression are rising among police officers, says John Violanti, a professor of epidemiology and environmental health at the University of Buffalo, and a leading expert on police stress.According to preliminary data that he and his research team collected, the …

https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/06/14/violence-stress-scrutiny-weigh-on-police-mental-health

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Police stressors and health: a state-of-the-art review - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBThe police stress environment. Sources of stress in policing may be classified into two general categories (Shane, 2010): those arising from “job content” which include work schedules, shift work, long-work hours, overtime and court work, and traumatic events and threats to physical and psychological health; and those arising from “job context” also …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6400077/

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Mental crisis calls to police can be deadly. Cities try new ways to

(4 days ago) WEBAbout 1 in 5 people killed by police since 2015 were having a mental health crisis. Like other cities, Philadelphia is trying a new approach: sending along social workers to respond to those calls.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/09/1203342875/cities-know-the-way-police-respond-to-mental-crisis-calls-needs-to-change-but-ho

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Police Stress and Deleterious Outcomes: Efforts Towards …

(3 days ago) WEBAt the policymaking level, police departments could implement a broad continuum of officer mental health and wellness policies and programs. These strategies include providing officers with access to information on mental health resources, annual mental health wellness checks, in-service stress management awareness training, peer …

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Officer Safety And Wellness COPS OFFICE - United States …

(7 days ago) WEBIn 2016, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) entered into a cooperative agreement with the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to conduct a case study of the San Diego (California) Police Department's wellness program. Officer Health and Organizational Wellness: Emerging Issues and …

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Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public …

(7 days ago) WEBSince the 1960s, the US government has shifted funding for addressing social problems to local police departments. 11 This investment in police occurred even though police are not mental health or social service professionals, and 68% of law enforcement agencies have no specialized response protocol to address mental health …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307107

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Building mental health into emergency responses

(5 days ago) WEBOther police departments delegate specific law enforcement officers to mental health calls and involve mental health professionals whenever necessary. One of the oldest programs in the United States is the CAHOOTS public safety system in Eugene, Oregon, started in 1989, a model that many police departments and cities have looked …

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/07/emergency-responses

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Why Police Are Still Handling Mental-Health Crises - The Atlantic

(8 days ago) WEBFebruary 22, 2022. DURHAM, N.C. — When the murder of George Floyd in 2020 sparked widespread demand for police reforms, some cities moved to announce major overhauls of law enforcement. One of

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/mental-health-crisis-police-intervention/622842/

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Policing Is a Public Health Issue: The Important Role of Health

(3 days ago) WEBLaw Enforcement Practices as a Public Health Issue. Policing practices have profound implications for death and illness, including direct and indirect physical and mental harm, and violent practices that disproportionately target and harm Black, Indigenous, and Latinx residents (DeVylder et al., 2020; Feldman et al., 2016; Tynes et al., 2020).Police …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807347/

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Mental Health And Police Violence: How Crisis Intervention Is …

(6 days ago) WEBNationwide protests over police accountability and racial justice have reenergized longstanding efforts to fundamentally change how police departments respond to someone in a mental health

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/913229469/mental-health-and-police-violence-how-crisis-intervention-teams-are-failing

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Full article: Police staff and mental health: barriers and

(6 days ago) WEBMental health treatment and support. To help reduce stress, and support the mental health of their employees, organizations offer an array of professional (e.g. formal, clinical) and non-professional (e.g. informal, peer-based) resources (Mitchell & Bray, Citation 1990).In Canada, the most common professional resource offered to PSP is the …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15614263.2021.1979398

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Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness (LEMHWA) Program …

(8 days ago) WEBThe Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act of 2017 (LEMHWA) was signed into law in January 2018, recognizing that law enforcement agencies need and deserve support in their ongoing efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of their employees. Good mental and psychological health is just as essential as good physical health for law …

https://cops.usdoj.gov/lemhwaresources

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Cops, Clinicians, or Both? Collaborative Approaches to Responding …

(1 days ago) WEBHow a community responds to behavioral health emergencies is both a public health issue and social justice issue. Individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis often receive inadequate care in emergency departments (EDs), boarding for hours or days while waiting for treatment. Such crises also account for a quarter of police …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.202000721

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A National Survey of Police Mental Health Training

(Just Now) WEBIn the past 70 years, American police officers have experienced an increased number of contacts with people with mental health problems (Taheri 2016).Although many factors have played a contributing role, this phenomenon is often attributed to deinstitutionalization, or the closing of state mental health hospitals, leading to more …

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11896-020-09402-1

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The Mental Health of Police: Hope, Support, and Recovery

(5 days ago) WEBLong may this continue. Readers can obtain 24-hour emotional support from national telephone helplines including the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255; Crisis Services

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-men/202004/the-mental-health-police-hope-support-and-recovery

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Fighting Police Trauma: Practical Approaches to Addressing

(2 days ago) WEBIn his book Death work: Police, trauma, and the psychology of survival (2004), Dr. Vincent Henry (a former police officer with the New York City Police Department) illustrated the death-related issues inherent in police work. Clinicians may benefit by reviewing Dr. Henry’s work and develop a better understanding of the topic.

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How do crisis teams handle mental health calls differently from …

(1 days ago) WEBA study cited by the Department of Justice discovered that while in 1955, 0.3% of the US population had mental health issues and was living in a psychiatric institution, in 1999, 0.3% of the population with mental health issues lived in …

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-do-crisis-teams-handle-mental-health-calls-differently-from-police/

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Police Stigma Around Mental Health Could Be Harming the Public

(9 days ago) WEBIn a Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act report to Congress in 2019, the Community Oriented Policing Services division of the Department of Justice said the daily realities of being a

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-officers-stress-mental-health-stigma-impacting-public-2020-6

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Cops Are Leaving Their Departments In Droves And Few Want To …

(Just Now) WEBCops Say Low Morale And Department Scrutiny Are Driving Them Away From The Job. A demonstrator holds her hands up while she kneels in front of the Police at the Anaheim City Hall on June 1, 2020

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009578809/cops-say-low-morale-and-department-scrutiny-are-driving-them-away-from-the-job

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Tackling Mental Health Challenges in the Public Safety Sector

(7 days ago) WEBBecause mental health issues among public safety workers is a growing concern, Managing occupational exposure to post-traumatic stress is an essential responsibility of the fire departments. One approach departments can use to manage workers’ exposures is to implement a trauma risk management system following a …

https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2024/05/09/mental-health-public-safety-sector/

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Delivering Behavioral Health PMHC Toolkit - Bureau of Justice …

(Just Now) WEBDelivering Behavioral Health. Police-Mental Health Collaboration (PMHC) strategies offer behavioral health care providers, at the state and local levels the opportunity to improve the coordination of services with their law enforcement partners. This coordination can lead to improved public health outcomes for people with behavioral health care

https://bja.ojp.gov/program/pmhc/behavioral-health

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Why Public Health Faces a Crisis Across the U.S. - The New York …

(8 days ago) WEBA New York Times review of hundreds of health departments in all 50 states indicates that local public health across the country is less equipped to confront a pandemic now than it was at the

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/coronavirus-public-health.html

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Health Disparities in Police Officers: Comparisons to the U.S.

(3 days ago) WEBThese values for the police officers fall well short of the U.S. Healthy People 2010 recommendations: reduction in mean total blood cholesterol to 199 mg/dL, smoking to 12% of the population, and obesity to 15% of the population (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2000). The higher values are not entirely attributable to age as the

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734372/

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Police officer hiring in US increases in 2023 after years of decline

(9 days ago) WEBFILE - Police tape cordons off the scene of a crime in Levittown, Pa., Saturday, March 16, 2024. Police departments reported a year-over-year increase in sworn officers in 2023 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began and since the 2020 police killing of George Floyd spurred nationwide protests and increased scrutiny …

https://apnews.com/article/police-staffing-increases-2023-shortage-7e39156a80de2d75e22bd554adc8f887

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Police tactics at campus protests reveal disparities in approaches …

(2 days ago) WEBNew York City agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the city’s police department of using unlawful tactics against protesters during the summer of 2020.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/05/us/police-tactics-campus-protests-george-floyd/index.html

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Two Rivers Police address rumors regarding Elijah Vue search

(3 days ago) WEBThe Two Rivers Police Department made a statement Tuesday afternoon, addressing rumors regarding the search for 3-year-old Elijah Vue. Investigators said that there are rumors circulating

https://www.wbay.com/2024/05/07/two-rivers-police-address-rumors-regarding-elijah-vue-search/

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Trinity County Fire Department remembers long time former fire …

(1 days ago) WEBLong-time Trinity Fire Chief Wayne Huffman died of health complications earlier this week. TRINITY COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - Wayne Huffman served as Trinity County Fire Chief for over 60 years, and he retired back in January. Some of those who’ve had the honor of working beside him say he was a giant in not just the Trinity Fire …

https://www.kltv.com/2024/05/09/trinity-county-fire-department-remembers-long-time-former-fire-chief/

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