Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Glossary
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Why the need to be resilient? How it feels to be a police officer in the UK and why
- 2 Risks to resilience in operational policing: from trauma to compassion fatigue
- 3 What might be happening in the brain? Introducing simple neuroscience for policing
- 4 Turning science into action: resilience practices for policing
- 5 What now? The big step change
- Epilogue: ‘Veil’ by Mark Chambers
- Notes
- Index
Epilogue: ‘Veil’ by Mark Chambers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Glossary
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Why the need to be resilient? How it feels to be a police officer in the UK and why
- 2 Risks to resilience in operational policing: from trauma to compassion fatigue
- 3 What might be happening in the brain? Introducing simple neuroscience for policing
- 4 Turning science into action: resilience practices for policing
- 5 What now? The big step change
- Epilogue: ‘Veil’ by Mark Chambers
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Rolling from the yard to start
another job: professional mode engaged.
Seen as a uniform rescuer,
viewed as a sharp investigator,
heard as authority on difficult calls.
Never even skin-deep recognition:
just a role or a function.
Not bad enough to keep them off sick,
this day's peaks and troughs of home;
the officer on the cordon grieves for their nan,
the interviewing officer's last IVF try failed today,
the negotiator fears another death in contact.
You wore no seatbelt and had no clue
the ticket was written by a heartbroken hand.
From Blue Verse (2020)- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Policing MindDeveloping Trauma Resilience for a New Era, pp. 190Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2022