Suicide Risk Assessment for Police Officers (In: Suicide and Law Enforcement, edited by D C Sheehan & J I Warren)

This chapter provides a background & framework for developing a proper approach to evaluating the suicide risk potential of police officers. It reviews a number of the risk factors & instruments that might aid such an evaluation, including both multimeasure psychopathology inventories & single-scale tests. A few case examples presented typify some of the complex police stress factors, such as the warrior mentality & police culture, which may increase the vulnerability of law enforcement personnel to suicide. JA