Mental health issues resulted in 627 Thames Valley Police officers being signed off work last year. A freedom of information ...

Denver Police Chief Robert White did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday. Nationally, 140 law enforcement officers committed suicide in 2008, and 143 killed themselves in 2009.

Research indicates that PTSD rates for police is at least as high as for combat veterans, sometimes higher. Unfortunately little has been done to help.

Their study will examine the effects of PTSD symptoms, ranging from mild to severe, on attention and cognitive control in police. Even mild symptoms of PTSD can affect officers’ mental health, as well ...

DENVER --Police unions across the U.S. are pushing for officers to be able to collect workers' compensation benefits if they suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, whether they got it from the ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff, shown campaigning on Dec. 22, 2020, is pushing for $270 million in funding to help police deal with people who have PTSD and TBI. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder among police officers is a serious issue. For the third straight year in 2018 , more officers died from suicide, which is often caused by PTSD, than deaths than in ...

MINNEAPOLIS — At least 150 Minneapolis police officers say they are suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or other injuries resulting from the protests that broke out after ...

That Newtown, Connecticut, officer, Tom Bean, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and the department agreed to pay him $380,000 after the police union and Brown, the labor attorney ...

PTSD, police altercations, ... Sheriff Deputy Kyle Dinkheller was killed in 1998 in Georgia by an Army veteran with severe post-traumatic stress.

George Brown benefited from an expansion of the state’s military diversion statute, which suspends criminal charges for ...