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Trauma Resilience in UK Policing

 

"The most important thing is to allow the police to talk..and we need to make the effort to listen. That’s the only way we’re going to improve.”

In this article from Mental Health at Work, Dr Jess Miller talks to Beckett Frith about the challenges faced by the police as public sympathy wanes due to the lockdown and the Black Lives Matter protests, and especially considers the impact this has on Black police officers.

https://www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk/blog/supporting-police-mental-wellbeing-through-covid-and-blm/

 

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