POLICE STRESS

Police Stress

Abstract

Police psychologists work in three main areas supporting police forces to enhance police organizational structures and processes like pre-employment screening for police and public safety personnel, leadership and command assessment, assessing organizational climate, enhance police operations such as working in crisis and hostage negotiation teams/hostage barricade team, developing offender and terrorist profiles for investigation and crime prevention, investigative psychology, teaching the psychology of warning systems and evacuations and to provide services for officers and their families such as peer counseling, counseling programs, resilience and life skills building. Police stress is not always unique or obvious. Almost any single stressor in police work can be found in another occupation. What are unique is all the different stressors in one job. Many people see the dangers of acute stressors such as post shooting trauma and have programs dealing with them. These stressors are easy to see because of the intense emotional strain a person suffers.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Police Stress1

Introduction1

Discussion2

Police and Domestic Violence3

Behavior of police4

Stress Relaxation program for Police5

Crimes rate and Role of Police7

Rape Rates over Time8

Injury9

Number of Perpetrators10

Who Is the Offender?10

Who Is the Victim?11

Resistance against the Crime11

Reporting of cases to police13

Sexual Assault Response Team and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners13

Effects of Crimes on Victims14

Crime Victims and the Criminal Justice System15

Conclusion15

References19

Police Stress

Introduction

Concerns about incidents of domestic violence committed by police and military personnel arise from the special nature of their occupations. Both occupations involve training in use of force and general deference to their authority. In addition, uniformed personnel often receive the benefit of the doubt when their accounts of events are in conflict with others', even if the other is their spouse. Though police and military personnel share superficial similarities (uniformed service and firearms), the primary link between them lies in the risk factor of exposure of service personnel to highly stressful situations. The two groups are distinct in important other ways (Braga, 2008).

The homicides opened the door for inquiry into nonlethal forms of domestic violence among military personnel. Incidents of violence that occur in private housing off the grounds of military bases fall under local police jurisdiction, and are reflected in the statistics of those agencies. On-base offenses fall under the U.S. Military Code of Justice rather than the state's criminal code, and are not necessarily reflected in the official data collected by the criminal justice system.

It is possible to argue that an unhappy coincidence of rare events created a media-driven moral panic. However, domestic violence by soldiers falls under a larger umbrella of concerns about the long-term impact on soldiers of exposure to asynchronous warfare. Concurrent studies of the impact of deployment, and particularly combat, on military personnel stem from high numbers of diagnosed cases of posttraumatic stress disorder, suicides, and brain injuries suffered during the Long War conflicts.

It is logical to infer that increased levels of domestic violence may reflect the frustrations and other trauma resulting from combat and combat-theater assignment. Domestic violence may be one of many difficulties associated with making the transition from combat environments back ...