{"id":286285,"date":"2025-07-23T22:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286285\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:09:11","slug":"mental-health-issues-affecting-more-surrey-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/286285\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health issues affecting more Surrey Police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The mental load on officers has increased to such a point where officers are really struggling,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The amount of traumatic events police officers have to deal with during their careers are not highlighted enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Add this to the stress of workloads being so high and pressurised, and then not being remunerated well enough, and it is a cocktail for tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Confirming the figures, Surrey Police said it has a number of support resources for those who are struggling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These include free access to mental health first aiders, police chaplains, a 24\/7 Employee and Volunteer Assistance Programme, and a force medical officer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A demobilising and defuse service is available following a single incident of trauma exposure, while officers working within higher risk departments &#8211; such as roads policing and domestic abuse &#8211; can have psychological screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The mental load on officers has increased to such a point where officers are really struggling,&#8221; he said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-286285","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\/114904836582582190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286285","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=286285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}