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phasis
away from a reactive approach
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that focuses on officers’ problems to
a preventative orientation designed
to prevent and minimize these prob-
lems.
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job and put
in place
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numerous programs, policies, and
procedures to support officers’ health
and wellbeing.
This becomes a vital feature of efforts
POWER sees the interconnected re- to improve officer retention, morale,
lationships among officers’ wellness, and, just as importantly, community
their ethical decision-making, and relations.
their job satisfaction.
Ultimately, POWER is another risk
Police executives who foster an orga- management tool that keeps offi-
nization’s culture of wellness under- cers and the public safer and more
stand the reality of the psychologi- secure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ldH7up10l0&t=15s
(Learn More in this video used in RMPC Basic Training. An example showing the reality, impact
but also the means to move through compassion fatigue. Courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Police
Chaplains and YouTube. Posted on Aug 28, 2019.
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