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Police Care UK (formerly The Police Dependents’ Trust) have worked in partnership with the Police Federation and Oscar Kilo to develop this guidance that you can use following a traumatic incident.

Brad Greenstreet has a strong interest in mental health and wellbeing in law enforcement. He has created a series of videos entitled ‘The Empty Chair’ after experiencing depression himself in 2017. The videos feature a number of officers sharing their own stories about mental health and were used in a campaign within his local force to raise awareness.

This guidance document entitled ‘Supporting the Wellbeing of Internet Child Abuse Teams (ICAT)’ has been published by the College of Policing.

This research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), shows that better management is the key to tackling workplace stress and unlocking healthy, productive workplaces. 

This research paper looks at how mental illness continues to be one of the most rapidly growing causes of long-term sickness absence and labour market exclusion across developed countries.

This research paper examines the role that psychological screening and surveillance can take in improving the delivery of psychological support to emergency service responders (ESRs) at a time of increasing demands and complexity.

Find out about the 'Key Facets to Wellbeing' model and how it can impact on workplace wellbeing.

This independent review looks into how employers can better support the mental health of all people currently in employment.

This paper entitled ‘Wellbeing and engagement in policing: the key to unlocking discretionary effort’ looks closely at the relationship between wellbeing and engagement with discretionary effort and how leadership plays a huge role.

This blog by Dr Jessica (Jess) Miller, Neuropsychologist, writes about ‘bringing neuroscience to policing’.

The Oscar Kilo team had the chance to speak to TV’s Nick Knowles who told us all about his personal connection through having friends in the services, and, why he feels it is so important that we look after our staff – so we can look after and protect others…