Stress Among the Police

Stress Among Police

Police officer stress

Stress among the police force

Police workforce remains an environment that is highly stressful being an occupation that a person has to deal with physical dangers and risking their lives any time they are working. Research indicates that the prevalent stress warning signs that need to deal with immediately they appear are sudden behavior changes in behavior, erratic work behavior, increase of sick time because of minor problems, failure to preserve a train of thought, and extreme worrying.

This stressful condition that one police may be subjected to needs to be solved as soon as it is note or even frequent diagnosis conducted since the stress has a high likelihood of affecting the entire group due to the cohesiveness that the police force shares. The police have that peculiar kind of cohesiveness around them due to several factors that are common among them. Firstly, all the police are introduced to kind of a police culture that is common in the academy. Upon recruitment, the new recruits are introduced to police subculture where they are surrounded by over forty colleagues and arbitrary discipline that is often harsh is handed out so often. There is emphasis on absolute obedience to rules and very rigorous physical training are emphasized on, these being the foundation of the cohesiveness among the police since al of them go through this together. If one person is stressed up, this loyalty to the group culture is at risk hence the high possibility rebellion and discontent with the leadership and the entire group.

The police will also exhibit the cohesiveness due to the fact that they have a shared kind of responsibility to the community. To achieve this, they have to work together to increases the chance of them meeting the set goals and the expectations of the community and the state at large, hence making their cohesiveness to be quite different from the other occupations in the U.S.A. As noted by Dissertations Abstract International (1984). When a single person is therefore stressed, he may end up ignoring the responsibility that the community and the group bestows on him which would be a serious breach of the law and putting lives at risk.