t can also come from within the department. On the job stress can be caused by a number of different things. An example of this is every time an officer answers a call, he or she has to treat that call like it could be a dangerous situation. The pressure the officers put on themselves day in, and day out takes a toll mentally and physically. Fortunately, the majority of the calls police officers answer are not dangerous. Probably the most stressful situation in a police officers career would be if that officers had almost died, or if and officers partner had died. When an officer is hired within a station and that officer is assigned a partner, that is the person that they are going to spend a majority of their time with. Now if their partner dies, it is going to hit them harder than anyone else. There have been many instances in which an officers partner had died and the officer could never function the same way again. The stress on that individual officer was just too much to handle. The first thing the officer would do is blame themselves, thinking that they could have done something to prevent it, when in reality it is unlikely that the officer could have done anything. In the majority of the cases the officers do not go back to work, and they just feel like it is impossible to go on. This is the number one reason for police suicide. One of the options police departments should offer their officers is someone to talk to if a particular officer is having a problem with something. One of the major problems with police departments is that all of the officers are kind of expected to have a hard attitude. This makes the officers feel like when there is a problem they should handle it themselves, instead of talking it out with someone, which is usually the best remedy for problems.Departmental stress is completely different from on the job stress. Departmental stress has to do with things within the police department its...
