ticle concluded that it did. The only catch of this was that as time went on, and the officer was employed for a long period of time the duties changed. From being out on patrol and dealing with the community on a day to day basis to only dealing with the community once or twice a week. "Every year, hundreds of officers experience intense, traumatic events that can have serious long term consequences for them, their families, and their departments. It is incumbent upon police administrators to ensure that their officers and their departments have the tools at hand to cope with such critical incidents."(Arthur W. Kureczka). This shows that not only does stress effect a single officer but also an officer's stress effects his or her family and his or her department. This article gives a few methods on how to deal with stress. One for example was peer support. Peer support is having a trained member of sworn officers to talk to an officer in trouble and to refer him or her to a professional. Without this an officer may not seek help on his own for fear of other officers not thinking that he or she is capable of doing their job.A study in the Journal of Occupational and organizational psychology in which 39 officers replied to a survey sent out to 100 officers. Of the 39 officers that replied 37 of them were male and 2 of them were female. The survey was meant to ascertain the intensity the police officers had experienced each stressor. The survey asked the police officer to put in order from the most stressful to the least stressful a series of situations. A few of the situations were "arresting a violent person, facing an unpredictable situation, and facing a situation with the possibility of physical injury"(Journal of Occupational and organizational psychology). The results of the survey concluded that facing an unpredictable situation was the question that got the highest rating to be a stressor among police officers. This ar...
