Shocking Rise In Police Suicides: A Crisis Ignored.
Very rarely do others stop and think-‘I wonder how many endless traumatic incidents has this officer witnessed and yet here they are answering another call for help’.
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1 in 3 Police Officers Suffer In Silence-The Mental Health Crisis Impacting Police Officers.
The level of PTSD among UK police officers has reached alarming levels — and too many are still suffering in silence.
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The Hidden Crisis Among Our Heroes: Is It Time for a National Mental Health Strategy for Emergency Service Workers?
They save lives. But who’s saving theirs? Behind every siren, there’s a human being carrying the weight of trauma — and the cracks are starting to show.
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PTSD UK Reports That 20% Of Emergency Services Frontline Workers Will Go On To Develop PTSD: Compared To 4% In General Population.
Am I ok? Is question that often lingers in the minds of emergency service workers as they leave the scene of another fatality. Police officers called to discover a body after a collision, firefighters cutting victims from wreckage — these moments are part of their job. What many might say they’re paid to do.
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The Trauma Behind The Badge: Mental Health Crisis In UK Policing.
“The system has failed us. We’re being judged by people who couldn’t do a single shift in our shoes.”
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Record High Number Of Police Officers Suffering PTSD, But Why Does The Public Seem To Forget They Are Human?
We are frequently reminded on the internet to tick boxes that show ‘we are not robots’. Yet we fail to acknowledge this with police officers and expect them to deal with horrendous traumatic incidents without it leaving any impact on them.
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‘Police officers are now afraid to go out on the streets and actually do their job in fear of what repercussions they may face.’
“Police leaders do not go out on the front line like our response officers so do not see exactly what they are faced with and the reality is that they do not even begin to understand why these officers now, do not want to go out on our streets anymore or the trauma so many are suffering.”
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Our emergency service workers are always there for us-it is time now we support their mental health needs.
The festive season is here but for the majority of our bluelight workers, their already heavy work loads are now
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9 out of 10 emergency service workers suffer mental health problems.
Surveys show huge rise in mental health problems in our emergency service workers across the capital. In 2021 mental health
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Once a fortnight a police officer takes his own life, one in five suffers with PTSD-the shocking reality of our police officers after years of austerity cuts and continuous abuse.
Shocking figures have revealed that one in five police officers across the country suffers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and
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