Running head: POLICE OFFICERS STRESS 1 Police Officers Stress Name University Course Professor Date POLICE OFFICERS STRESS 2 Police Officers Stress Being a police officer attracts a myriad of challenges, some of which can become detrimental to health and wellbeing. In particular, officers can have overwhelming psychological, physical, and mental damage to an individual. For example, the need for a critical response in case of an incident, which emanates from the high public demand and pressure and shift work, are some of the personal stressors among the officers. Exposing them to various stresses affects their wellbeing adversely, resulting in burnout, fatigue, and moral deterioration (Hayasaki, 2014). Ultimately, with the risk of exposure to these challenges increasing, the emotional, physical, cognitive, spiritual, behavior, and social health are affected negatively, resulting in PTSD, suicide, cardiovascular diseases, and sleep disorders. In my view, there are several threats, which are likely to result in stress, emotional, or physical risk. For instance, I have found that witnessing an innocent person dies can be quite stressing and traumatizing. It is even more dis ...
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