IACP 2018 Recorded Sessions: Officer Safety and Wellness
Did you miss any part of IACP 2018 or want to re-watch a workshop? Select workshop sessions are posted here as a member-only benefit. Watch the videos below.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's Officer Resiliency and Wellness Program
After a series of publicized officer events in Indianapolis and around the country that served to negatively reflect on law enforcement and hindered relationships with the community, The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) embarked upon a ground-breaking officer wellness and resiliency program. In 2010 IMPD created the Office of Professional Development and Wellness (OPDW) to combat employee crisis using innovative strategies and best practices. The problem-solving program identified agency and community stakeholders and used education and crisis support resources for early intervention rather than waiting for more crisis to occur.The goal of the program is to create and maintain healthy habits throughout officers careers.
Officer Down: How Smaller Agencies Can Manage Critical Incidents and Ensure Psychological Survival
Dr. McDougall will utilize his many years of experience with officer-involved shootings, line-of-duty deaths, and other trauma to engage the audience in dynamic discussions and debates regarding the impact of critical incidents upon the officer and the special challenges they create for smaller agencies. Powerful videos of clinical interviews with officers highlight this presentation, and take the audience inside the clinician's office to experience the numerous, and often untold ways in which officer's lives are changed by critical incidents. Specific attention will be given to suggested guidelines and procedures of smaller agencies, who may not have a mental health provider on staff, or direct access to psychological services.
Smaller Agency Track session recording made possible by Engility.
Creating a Culture to Address and Prevent Officer Suicide
The greatest threat to the lives of the men and women in uniform is themselves. More officers die by suicide, than are killed by felonious assaults or killed in vehicular accidents combined. How many more lives must be lost before agencies and administrators take this threat seriously? How many more officers will suffer in silence without appropriate resources? This secret has been allowed to hide for far too long. The silence is deafening and denial disheartening. To remain silent any longer is to purposefully deny the threat lurking in your agency. This panel discussion will address officer mental health, while providing practical solutions to assist agencies in reducing the number of officers who die by suicide each year.
