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

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:

• 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