scholarly journals The mental health of police personnel: what we know & what we need to know and do (CACP-MHCC Conference 13–15 February 2017)

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Astrid Ahlgren
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
The Past ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
Police Personnel ◽  
Chiefs Of Police ◽  
The Board Of Directors

The issue of mental health and wellness has gained greater attention in society as a whole in the past decade. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) has had this topic on its radar for even longer, and continued this sustained emphasis at the 13–15 February 2017 conference entitled “The Mental Health of Police Personnel: What We Know & What We Need to Know and Do”. The dynamic and fast-paced conference was organized by the CACP and moderated by Norman E. Taylor. It brought together 222 delegates and speakers representing the broad sectors of policing, mental health and research, with equal numbers of men and women, at the Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Quebec. Collaborating in this initiative were the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC), Canadian Police Association (CPA), the Canadian Association of Police Governance (CAPG), the CACP Research Foundation (CACP-RF), the Canadian Institute for Public Safety Research and Treatment (CIPSRT), and Public Safety Canada (PSC). This paper provides a comprehensive report on the proceedings as submitted, and has been approved for publication in this Journal by the board of directors of the CACP.Some speakers provided the CACP with permission to post the visual aids they used for their presentations. These are available on the CACP website at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pfjkme79redafo/AADGWJPod7K2jOJzlmwnFIsEa?dl=0

scholarly journals Re-integration: a new standard in first responder peer support

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Glen Klose ◽  
Colleen Mooney ◽  
Doug McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Practice Guideline ◽  
First Responder ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Integration Program ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
Police Personnel ◽  
Chiefs Of Police ◽  
The Subject

Since its inception, the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) Re-integration Program has grown in its capacity, impact, and service to members within EPS. It has also attracted increasing attention among—and emulation by—other first responder communities in the province of Alberta. Most recently, the program was the subject of a featured segment during the joint Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) and Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) international conference, “The Mental Health of Police Personnel: What We Know & What We Need to Know and Do”, held in February 2017. Based on the strong reception and interest generated among conference delegates, the Journal of CSWB invited the program’s architects to develop the following Practice Guideline article, with a view to bringing wider awareness to this unique peer-supported program. The EPS program connects conventional counselling and support resources with aspects of recovery and re-integration that are more closely tied to the equipment and operational realities of first responders.

scholarly journals Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Monica C. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Past ◽  
Safety Research ◽  
New Public

The Black Lives Matter movement has operated alongside a growing recognition among social scientists that policing research has been limited in its scope and outmoded in its assumptions about the nature of public safety. This essay argues that social science research on policing should reorient its conception of the field of policing, along with how the study of crime rates and police departments fit into this field. New public safety research should broaden its outcomes of interest, its objects of inquiry, and its engagement with structural racism. In this way, next-generation research on policing and public safety can respond to the deficiencies of the past and remain relevant as debates over transforming American policing continue.

scholarly journals The Protective Power of Behavioural Threat Assessment (& Management) (BTAM)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Guest Speaker ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
Simon Fraser University

On August 20th, 2020, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) Vancouver hosted its fourth digital roundtable event of the year, The Protective Power of Behavioural Threat Assessment (& Management) (BTAM). The presentation was conducted by guest speaker Andrea Ringrose, Director of Campus Public Safety at Simon Fraser University, who is also on the Board of Directors at Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. Ringrose’s presentation gave an overview on behavioural threat assessment and management, and how public safety and caring for persons of concern are interconnected when assessing threats and risks. Subsequently, Ringrose answered questions submitted by the audience, which focused on the assessment of different offender types, the handling bias during the BTAM process, the role of artificial intelligence, and the possibility of echo chambers accelerating behaviour. APA Citation CASIS Vancouver. (2020). The protective power of behavioural threat assessment (& management) (BTAM). The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare, 3(2), 77-83. https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/jicw/article/view/2409/1816.

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