Institution: Instructor: STRESS IN POLICE Law enforcement is among the most challenging and stressful jobs in the country. Collins & Gibbs (2003) conducted a study to evaluate the causes‚ prevalence‚ and severity of symptoms due to stress among police officers. As Collins & Gibbs (2003) point out‚ the stressful condition of the police job causes increased suicide levels among police officers in other countries. Stress-related illnesses increase the financial burden on police officers‚ lowers their
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WORK RELATED STRESS CASE STUDY Cookstown District Council Geographically positioned within the centre of Northern Ireland‚ Cookstown District Council (The Council) is a medium sized local authority with a workforce of some 280 employees. It is one of twenty six local authorities across Northern Ireland and as such has a range of statutory functions to fulfil. As well as these statutory obligations the work areas in which the Council is heavily involved in has expanded dramatically over recent years
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CRJ 180 Police Stress in the field Police officers have one of the highest suicide rates in the nation‚ possibly the highest. They have a high divorce rate‚ about second in the nation. They are problem drinkers about twice as often as the general population. The facts are warning signals for unseen problems that are not being handled. Researchers use suicide‚ divorce and alcoholism rates as three key indexes of stress in a group of
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THE EFFECTS OF STRESS ON POLICE OFFICERS Not much good news here. The following is the text of a speech give by Dan Goldfarb to a group of union delegates on the impact stress can have on their men. There has been a lot of research on the negative effects of stress on people in general. I am sure you know that police work is one of the top rated professions for job stress next to air traffic controllers and dentists. A good way to start this presentation‚ I think‚ is to give a good working
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Police stress is important to control and to deal with. Some officers have to seek help to control it. In the police business there is no telling what you run in to on a day by day schedule‚ there is not the same work day twice. One day you will by just giving people tickets to the next day dealing with someone being shot. Anyone can understand if you see someone being shot then it makes you a little stressed out. Stress plays a part in the lives of everyone. Some stress is not only inevitable‚ it
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County’s Police Department‚ approximately 95% (94.1) of female officers were affected by killing someone in the line of duty had a 90% (88.2) impact on female officers to her male counterpart at 85% (82.2). The exposure to dead and battered children impacted female officers at almost 80% (82.0) to male officers at almost 70% (73.2). Responding to a felony in progress showed female officers at 70% (73.4) while there was no affect on male officers (Pendergrass et al.‚ 1984). Police stress: history
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STRESS RELATED DISEASES Several definitions of stress have been proposed thus causing a great deal of confusion. Therefore‚ I would like to leave the meaning of this word very simple. It is a term we human beings use to stand for hundreds of specific problems in our lives. It is a word we use when we feel angry‚ depressed‚ frustrated or worried. Stress can be categorized into physical‚ emotional and behavioral. I would like to dwell only on the physical effects of stress. Research shows that
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Checkpoint: Police Stress External Stress-This stress is produced by real threats or dangers‚ for example: gun runs and auto pursuits. I believe this type of stress would affect an officer’s job by carrying the fear of being injured or killed in the line of duty. This type of stress would possibly affect an officer’s social life and personal life because of the fear the family has to carry with them of their loved one being in danger on a daily basis. In order to manage or reduce these fears an
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Work-Related Stress and Stress Management Stress can be defined as an adaptive response to a situation that is perceived as challenging or threatening to a person’s well-being and usually described as a negative experience. Most people feel some type of pressure from their daily duties in the work place. This pressure can be positive and motivating but sometimes this pressure can be excessive‚ leading to a stressful feeling. Stress can also result from being over worked. Work-related stress affects
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Causes of stress “Exposure to violence‚ suffering‚ and death is inherent to the profession of law enforcement officer. There are other sources of stress as well. Officers who deal with offenders on a daily basis may view some sentences as too lenient; they may perceive the public’s opinion of police performance to be unfavorable; they often are required to work mandatory‚ rotating shifts; and they may not have enough time to spend with their families. Police officers also face unusual‚ often highly
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