{"id":129370,"date":"2025-05-25T00:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129370\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:55:09","slug":"psni-mental-health-leave-on-the-rise-among-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129370\/","title":{"rendered":"PSNI: Mental health leave on the rise among officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms McLaren, a councillor who served in the PSNI for 18 years, said most officers &#8220;all have one or two incidents that they will remember forever&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember attending a suicide 20 years ago. Even now, driving home at night in the dark, if I&#8217;m in the car on my own and I look through the rear-view mirror, I can see him on the back seat,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember one colleague who worked with the murder team for 30 years, and it never fazed him, every time he went to a scene no matter how graphic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was only when his own children became the ages of those victims that all of a sudden it had a huge impact on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms McLaren said mental health had always been a major problem within the service, but attitudes towards support have only recently changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In days gone by, especially during the Troubles, you didn&#8217;t go off sick with mental health,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You maybe got a day [off] and your mates got you a bottle of whiskey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms McLaren, a councillor who served in the PSNI for 18 years, said most officers &#8220;all have one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-129370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114565750970380893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}