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Trauma Resilience in UK Policing

 

 

The Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project has produced guidance documents with Police Care UK and for the College of Policing as well as articles for policing publications and academic journals.

A range of publicly available resources is available through Police Care UK by contacting hello@policecare.org.uk, including:

  • Self-Support after traumatic incidents

  • Supporting loved ones after a major incident

  • Working with indecent or extreme material

  • Call Handling training for trauma resilience

  • Taking the policing brain on holiday

 

​Dr Jess Miller with Prof Chris Brewin (UCL) also co-authored with others a short guidance document for the College of Policing on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Policing. 

Presentations generated during the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project are often available online from conference organisers. Click on the following link to access the presentation for the Canterbury Centre for Policing Research (CCPR) Annual Conference 2018: 'Bringing neuroscience research into operational policing'.

A blog from 2018 "Trauma Processing in Operational Policing May Be Closer Than You Think" describes the aspirations of the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project for the police initiative Oscar Kilo. 

 

Academic publications include:

 

Latest news

BLOG: The Policing Mind one year on

22 June 2023

Here Dr Jess talks about how her first book The Policing Mind: Trauma Resilience for a New Era has had impact since 2022: Transforming Society ~ Getting inside the policing mind In doing so, the book as been passed to the Home Secretary in the hope of further change to our police service being more trauma informed and open...

The Lancet featuring our trauma resilience project and trauma impact prevention techniques (TIPT)

23 March 2023

We are absolutely delighted to share that our project has featured in an essay by Jules Morgan in The Lancet Psychiatry on 21st March. Here is an extract : "People are only just starting to talk about complex PTSD, but we need to act now, says Jessica Miller (University of Cambridge, UK, and Police Care UK), Principal...

The Casey Review of The Met: our trauma input

23 March 2023

We were really pleased to contribute to the Baroness Casey Review of the Met with a view to understanding how trauma exposure and resilience interacts with culture, standards and behaviour. Here is an extract from the full report 21 March 2023: "During the Review we spoke to Dr Jessica Miller, Director of Research at...

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