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to promote
wellness
for
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POWER
stands for Police Offi- programs 2019
cer Wellness, Ethics, & Resil- their personnel.
ience.
POWER is more than just a new
book, it presents evidence-based
strategies to assist law enforcement
agencies in implementing policy
POWER is the start of a movement
to change how police officers are
hired, trained, supervised, pro-
moted, disciplined, and, most
importantly, supported.
The goal is for po-
lice executives to
adopt a culture of
wellness where
officers’ psycho-
logical security is
viewed to be as
important as their
physical safety.
Many of the psy-
chological dan-
gers facing po-
lice officers are
not well-known
to police execu-
tives.
A l t h o u g h
post-traumatic
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