The police department that you work for has had two officer suicides in the past six months and a total of four in the last two years. The chief has asked you to help draft a policy that will help reduce officer stress and help minimize or eliminate officer suicides in the future. Specifically, the chief would like you, in a 10 to 12 slide PowerPoint presentation (with presenter notes), to
Provide three or more reasons why officers are at a higher risk of suicide than the general public
Come up with five recommendations on how to reduce the likelihood of officer suicides
Explain why each of your suggestions will help
Provide at least three strategies that could be used by an officer responding to a report of a possible suicidal person (either an officer or other citizen threatening to kill themselves).
Describe how office suicides can impact workplace culture