By Chief Michael Gabrielson, Loveland (OH) PD for Calibre Press Law enforcement agencies across the country are struggling to keep pace with attrition and to fill the vacancies we all have with the best candidates we can find. There are many theories as to the cause of this struggle [...]
An officer recounts responding to the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooter – and shares why we must focus as much on emotional trauma as we do active shooter response tactics By Joshua Bitsko for Police1.com The smell of gunpowder was still heavy in the air. I could feel a [...]
Dr. Laurence Miller Practical Police Psychology for Police1.com A premature rush to routinely dispatch psychologists and social workers to the scene of potentially lethal police-citizen encounters may be a matter of misapplied good intentions Question: In response to several recent cases of mentally ill citizens being shot by police, some [...]
From Calibre Press Barbara Schwartz’s recent article, Take Notice of an Officer’s Pain, resonated powerfully with Calibre Press newsletter readers. One in particular, Gerry Walker, a U.S. Army veteran, a former police officer and a current federal law enforcement officer, sent us the following response, one we felt was important to share. [...]
By Barbara A. Schwartz for Calibre Press Calibre Press Editor’s note: September is suicide prevention month. With that, thank you to Barbara Schwartz for sharing the following important and timely article. You can make a difference in an officer’s life by noticing when they are hurting, struggling, or overwhelmed [...]
By Nick Greco for Calibre Press Editor’s note: Last week, CIT Coordinator and law enforcement mental health expert Nick Greco discussed the frustrating issues cops face while responding to calls involving people in mental crisis. Lack of funding for treatment, mental health system follow-through and institutional capacity to handle [...]
By Nick Greco for Calibre Press Those who know me know that I like to study history. I’m not limited to books or Internet searches either. In fact, I do enjoy watching old television shows to glean some perspective of what life was like in the past. One such [...]
Implement these steps to help ensure when your officers are asked how they are holding up after an OIS you’ll get an answer that’s better than “I’m okay." By Dr. Cherylynn Lee for Police1.com My first deployment as a police psychologist was to a homicide scene. The page came [...]
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