{"id":154387,"date":"2020-11-30T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154387"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:58:14","slug":"federation-chair-we-must-get-mental-health-support-right-across-all-areas-of-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154387","title":{"rendered":"Federation Chair: We must get mental health support right across all areas of policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">FORCES need to do more to protect the mental health of police officers across all roles, Essex Police Federation has said.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Laura Heggie spoke about the toll taken on officers\u2019 wellbeing after witnessing traumatic accidents and crimes.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She said: \u201cRoads policing officers are unfortunate enough to end up at some really gruesome scenes and it\u2019s important for officers and supervisors to be able to recognise when officers have done that and put the processes in place to try and relieve the officers of some of that stress and burden. They need to be given the<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0time and\u00a0opportunity to be able to talk about it and let go of some of that trauma.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cSadly however, this is not just a problem for roads policing. I have been to some truly horrific fatal collisions and serious injury collisions. But at the same time I would not wish to work on a team dealing with online or child sexual abuse.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cAs police officers, there are so many different areas where we come into contact with some really terrible things, whether they involve children, adults, domestic abuse and so on. We hear about roads officers struggling because they work alone. But then we also have single crewing in lots of aspects of policing. So we can\u2019t really prioritise one area of policing over another. Forces just really need to get it right across the board in relation to officers\u2019 mental health. And this needs to be across their career &#8211; as\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">often\u00a0the longer\u00a0you have been service, the more you will have witnessed.\u201d<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_447458568935268746gmail-m-7523688445915050141body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORCES need to do more to protect the mental health of police officers across all roles, Essex Police Federation has said. Laura Heggie spoke about the toll taken on officers\u2019\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=154387\" class=\"read-more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154518,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154387\/revisions\/154518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}