Police Officer-Assisted Suicide: a Phoenix Police Chaplain’s Perspective (In: Suicide and Law Enforcement, edited by D C Sheehan & J I Warren)

This chapter makes 3 points: training can inoculate against grief & helplessness in suicide by cop situations; value-based policing with regard to authority & citizenship security is a teachable moral code that does not violate personal rights or officer safety; & retraining for those with past experience in the military needs to be evaluated because intent is different than in wartime. JA