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Tag: Officer Stress: Page 2
Patrol
Southern California Officers Given Resilience Training
More than a dozen local and state police officers, dispatchers and other members of public safety gathered in a first of its kind training in California, centered on how to deal with mental health and trauma.
January 2, 2019
Patrol
Recharging Your Batteries: The Benefits of "Unplugging"
There is certainly benefit to being current on events involving the people you consider family—your brothers and sisters across the country with whom you share a special bond—as well as the world at large. However, it's also important—and extremely beneficial—to spend some time completely disconnected from the job. This is a lesson I recently re-learned.
November 16, 2018
Training
Adding More Realism to Training
Officers perform better when their training includes drills and scenarios that require them to use their skills in context under realistic conditions.
April 4, 2018
Training
A Year After Slayings, Dallas Police Train in 'Mindfulness'
A year later, Dallas officers are still grieving, but scores of them have received or are on track to receive specialized training in "mindfulness" and other stress-management techniques that aim to teach police how to better understand and control their emotions, both on and off the job.
July 7, 2017
Patrol
Coping With Stress on the Job
Law enforcement is becoming an increasingly difficult profession, and officers need to know how to decompress in healthy ways.
June 16, 2017
Patrol
LEOs' Exposure to Stressful Situations Could Increase Heart Disease Risk, Study Says
A study of more than 300 members of the Buffalo Police Department suggests that highly stressful events may be associated with disturbances of the normal awakening cortisol pattern. That can leave the officers vulnerable to disease.
February 8, 2017
Patrol
Officer Fitness: Peak Performance and Recovery Training
There are science-based methods that have been developed to help manage the physical and mental stresses placed on high-level athletes and these methodologies can be adapted to help manage the physical and mental stresses that are placed upon you by this profession.
September 1, 2016
Patrol
Eustress Me!
Seeking stimulus makes you stronger when you do it properly, but don't blame law enforcement for your three failed marriages and bad liver.
May 7, 2014
Special Units
Indianapolis Cop Surrenders After 4-Hour Park Standoff
A distraught Indianapolis police officer toting Valentine's Day gifts kept a SWAT team at bay for more than four hours Tuesday at a Northside park before surrendering.
February 14, 2012
Patrol
Alcohol a Growing Problem in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, Report Says
Last year, 70 sworn and civilian employees of the Sheriff's Department were arrested. The majority of those arrests involved employees driving off-duty while under the influence of alcohol, according to an annual report produced by the county Office of Independent Review.
April 15, 2009
Patrol
L.A. County Sheriff Vows Crackdown on Armed Deputies Drinking Alcohol
The deputies' union adamantly opposes any restrictions on a deputy's ability to carry a weapon while off-duty. But Sheriff Lee Baca said he's determined to get his way, noting that there has been a "very disturbing" rise in alcohol-related misconduct among his deputies.
November 12, 2008
Patrol
How to Avoid Burnout
Burnout is a modern American pandemic. Almost anybody who works an office job in this country has, at one time during his or her career, experienced apathy and lethargy while on the clock.
November 30, 2006
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