Cops Alive | Police stress and health - career survival

Many law enforcement officers suffer from excessive stress and don’t know how to deal with it, but this story may encourage you to seek one of the many resources available to police officers mentioned in this article before the stress in your life takes it’s toll on you and your family. In this story, Chris Prochut who was a Commander for the Bolingbrook Police Department at the height of the Drew Peterson investigation, nearly lost his life, but instead he lost his career.

Together they worked through the stresses and issues that arose for Dave following the shooting. They also were able to attend some training and decided to develop a more formalized Peer Support Team for their police department.

As a country we offer very little in the area of emotional survival training for police. You are well equipped and trained to deal with firearms, new combat technology, hostage negotiation, interrogation, special investigations, crimes against children, etc. And all of this keeps you safe, keeps death-in-the-line-of-duty statistically low. But all the while numbers show it is suicide that threatens a cop’s life 2 - 3 times more than in any other profession.

As a three time cancer survivor, Tina Ulatowski shares her story as well as educates individuals, groups, schools, and healthcare professionals on the correlation between nutrition and disease. She is the author of the book “What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You, A Simple Guide between Nutrition and Disease”.

This doesn’t mean we need to minimize line of duty deaths but rather do some basic threat assessment and acknowledge that many more officers take their own lives than those that are killed in the line of duty. This is a police issue and we as policing professionals need to deal with this ourselves.

Jon Benson who was also on our cruise and that was part of a 3-week business vacation during which he LOST 11 pounds of body fat while I gained 6 pounds on the same cruise.

for police officers emergency living is full of chaos, crisis, and panic. It keeps us moving at warp speed, always thinking about the next thing we have to do. We think we have to move faster and faster just to keep up.

ill effects such as fatigue, slower response times and even agitation and mood swings. These can be a problem for the average person, but they become an professional liability for police officers.

The presenters came from the Los Angeles Police Department Behavioral Sciences Unit, The Denver Police Department and the Fairfax County Police Department

Robert DouglasRobert Douglas knows how it feels to lose a fellow police officer to suicide. He brings that experience of being out there in facing the day to day hassles that can drive even the strongest officers to their knees.