Officer Suicides The police department that you work for has had two officer suicides in the past six months and a total of four in the last two years. The chief has asked you to help draft a policy t
Unit 6 Assignment
Officer Suicides
The police department that you work for has had two officer suicides in the past six months and a total of four in the last two years. The chief has asked you to help draft a policy that will help reduce officer stress and help minimize or eliminate officer suicides in the future. Specifically, the chief would like you, in a 10 to 12 slide PowerPoint presentation (with presenter notes), to
Provide three or more reasons why officers are at a higher risk of suicide than the general public
Come up with five recommendations on how to reduce the likelihood of officer suicides
Explain why each of your suggestions will help
Provide at least three strategies that could be used by an officer responding to a report of a possible suicidal person (either an officer or other citizen threatening to kill themselves).
Describe how office suicides can impact workplace culture
This assignment requires that you cite at least two credible sources beyond the required reading and explain why your sources are credible.
Directions:
Your slide requirement excludes your introduction and reference slides.
Use one basic slide design and layout.
Limit slides to between 6 and 8 lines of content.
Use bullets for main points.
Use speaker notes to fully explain what is being discussed in the bullet points as though you are presenting to an audience.
Include an introduction slide and a references slide.
Include at least five credible, outside sources.
All citations of outside sources plus the listing of all references should adhere to APA style.
Visit the writing center for excellent resources when creating PowerPoint presentations.
Submitting Your Assignment
Compose your presentation in PowerPoint and save your document in the following format: LastnameFirstname Assignment (Example: SmithJohn Unit 6 Assignment). Submit your assignment by selecting the Unit 6 Assignment Dropbox by the end of Unit 6.
Checklist for the Unit 6 Assignment
| Criteria: Ask yourself the following questions. | Not Yet | Yes |
| Content | ||
| Did you provide three or more reasons why officers are at a higher risk of suicide than the general public? | ||
| Did you determine five recommendations on how to reduce minimize the likelihood of officer suicides? | ||
| Did you explain why each of your suggestions will help? | ||
| Did you identify three or more ways that potential suicide can affects crisis negotiations and accurately demonstrate a clear understanding of the actual effect on crisis negotiations in all cases? | ||
| Did you describe how office suicides can impact workplace culture? | ||
| Research | ||
| Is your research current? | ||
| Did you discuss all the required areas in a substantive manner? | ||
| Did you use appropriate reference material to support major statements? | ||
| Quality | ||
| Is your content complete enough to address the topic and questions? | ||
| Is there a logical flow to your ideas? | ||
| Did you present the material in a clear and concise manner to provide easy readability? | ||
| Format | ||
| Did you prepare your project as a Microsoft PowerPoint document? | ||
| Did you label your file correctly? | ||
| Did you use APA format to cite your sources? | ||
| Did you check your document for grammar and spelling? | ||
| Does your Assignment fulfill the length requirements? | ||
