Year: 2009 Source: International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, v.11, no.1, (Winter 2009), p.17-24 SIEC No: 20100916

This paper represents an empirical attempt to gather descriptive police suicide data from all fifty American states for one year – 2008 – and record it in a cohesive manner that may be useful to researchers, police agencies, & program developers. Internet surveillance methods were used to obtain data. Other descriptive data related to police suicide were also collected. (16 refs.) JA