COP SUICIDE RATE SPURS LAUNCH OF PREVENTION EFFORT POLICE: MORE LAPD OFFICERS KILL SELVES THAN DIE ON DUTY.Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer With LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers more than twice as likely to kill themselves than be killed in the line of duty In the Line of Duty may refer to:
Kevin Jablonski, chief police psychologist for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . , told the civilian Police Commission on Tuesday that
the department's suicide rates are "exorbitantly high"
compared with the general population, even though it has steadily
dropped over the last nine years.
Since 1998, 19 LAPD officers have killed themselves, while seven have been killed in the line of duty. But despite a team of psychologists and mandatory counseling for all officers involved in a shooting, the agency's suicide rate is more than twice the state average. And the department's rates for its 9,630 sworn officers exceed other agencies. That average is lower than the FBI, the U.S. Customs Service and the San Diego Police Department The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) is the primary law enforcement agency for the city of San Diego, California. Established on May 16, 1889, the first chief of police was Joseph Coyne. The current police chief is William Lansdowne. but higher than the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. and departments in Chicago and New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . That is especially troubling given the rigorous screening process the department uses to catch mental health problems among recruits, Jablonski said. "Our message is you have to reach out to someone," he said. The department is using a public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most firm to roll out the prevention program. It will encourage officers to recognize signs of depression and alcoholism -- often precursors to suicide -- and train all supervisors to intervene and give every officer a card with suicide risk factors. "Any time you lose the life of an officer that can be prevented, not enough is being done," said police commissioner Alan Skobin, who asked for the psychological report. rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com 818-713-3741 CAPTION(S): box Box: Dangerous work SOURCE: Los Angeles Police Department |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion