Cops Alive | Police Stress and Health - Career Survival

“Code 9 Officer Needs Assistance” is a new film being produced to help law enforcement officers survive the rigors of their very stressful careers. This powerful documentary explores the darker side of law enforcement as it documents the stories of police officers and their families who are now suffering the mental anguish of the careers they chose, which has led some to suicide.

This week, the National Institute of Justice released findings from two new studies that have implications for improving police officer wellness and work life.

Make a two-fold “True Blue” commitment in 2012. One is to work diligently to reduce the number of officers killed in the line of duty, and secondly, to work to save the many officers that are suffering emotionally and faltering professionally. Here is an excellent resource: The Safe Call Now hotline for first responders. Let’s also Protect and Serve our own this year!

For those of you who are in law enforcement and are having a difficult holiday season, please know that there are a lot of people around the world that need you, If things become too difficult please remember that you call always telephone “Safe Call Now” at 206-459-3020 where you can talk to someone who understands the stressful demands of your work.

New book on Tactical Casualty Care entitled: “A Police Officers Guide and Handbook to Tactical Casualty Care (Under Fire) First Aid and Self First Aid for Law Enforcement”.

If you are a law enforcement officer thank you! Please use this day to thank all those who help keep you safe, effective and happy and if you are one of those millions of people who support, encourage and love a law enforcement officer, thank you for all your support!

As warriors in blue (and many other colors of uniforms and plain clothes) we must persevere and always continue to make ourselves better, stronger, more capable and more prepared to protect and to serve, and possibly to make the ultimate sacrifice so that those who have gone before us will not have died in vein, and those who come after us can pause and say: “They were the gladiators, the peacemakers, the ones who led the way toward peace, and did not flinch in the face of evil”

For five years now CopsAlive.com has been promoting the concept of building a business on the internet, as opposed to moonlighting or working a second job, as an alternative for law enforcement officers to earn extra income. Each year in January we host a group of police officers as part of a larger group of internet marketing experts on a cruise through the Caribbean Sea.

Galls, The Authority in Public Safety Equipment and Apparel has named CopsAlive.com one of the “7 Must Read Law Enforcement Blogs”.

Many thanks to the women of Tomboy Tools who provided over 30 volunteers to help clean up, replant and landscape the garden at the Colorado Law Enforcement Officers Memorial