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This chapter addressed numerous forms of stress and threats to the wellbeing of police officers through direct assault, different aspects of stress that occur, and hazards to which officers are otherwise exposed. Your analyses thus far have looked at the police agencies. Now we look inward. If you are employed in a police or other law enforcement agency, in consideration of the links provided below, what resources will you seek or other be certain are available to you to mitigate, reduce, or resolve threats and stress to you - and, by extension, your fellow officers, family, and the public?
https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka-resources (Links to an external site.)
https://www.leonearmiss.org/ (Links to an external site.)
https://leoka.org/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.cji.edu/site/assets/files/1921/dealingwithstress.pdf (Links to an external site.)
https://adaa.org/sites/default/files/Henderson_100.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Specific assignment:
Review the links provided and the chapter materials of the issues that threaten the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of police officers (some of the links go to materials that are quite long; this is not a reading assignment - just review the materials). Identify one or more threats to you as a stressor, physical, or emotional risk and determine how you can proactively locate and provide resources that will help to reduce the risk that you will be harmed by the risks and consequences of events that routinely occur in the performance of your duties.
Upon your review and analysis, identify the risk / hazard that concerns you, how it would interfere with your ability to perform your job as a police officer, and what you will do or resources you will seek to mitigate this risk / consequences.
The assignment must be submitted in APA format, be three to four text pages (for a total of five to six pages when including cover and reference pages), with citations to your sources. Please remember that all sources consulted should appear in your references and that citations are needed for assertions of fact that are not “common knowledge” or otherwise subject to debate. This assignment expects you to consider the issues raised from a first-person perspective and, for this assignment, writing in the first-person is acceptable.
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Police officers
Police officers are some of the people of great importance to a nation and the society at
large. Police officers play a vital role in ensuring that there is law and order in the society by
ensuring that the law is upheld by every individual as all people are under the law. They ensure
that every person in the society is protected by protecting people from crimes. However, in their
daily duties as well as personal life police officer encounter different situations which threaten
their mental, physical as well as their emotional wellbeing. Police officers are exposed to
different risks which are of concern which can affect them in different ways hence affecting the
way they execute their duties. Therefore, there is need to put in strategies in place so as to
mitigate the issues that police officers experience. In this paper, we will therefore look at the
different risks that police officers are exposed to and different ways of mitigating such risks.
One of the risks that the police officers are exposed to is harsh and dangerous
environments. Police officers are exposed to dangerous environments during their training as
well as in their course of duty. During training, police officers are faced with harsh environments
so as to prepare them for the future hards...
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