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Narrative interviewing highlights professional standards investigations as a key cause of officer mental ill-health

The often traumatic nature of policing has long been regarded as having a major effect on police wellbeing, but research in recent years has also highlighted the impact of organisational factors; former police officer Mark Brain, now a PhD Researcher at Cardiff University, used narrative interviewing techniques to determine that lengthy professional standards department investigations are one of the leading causes of officer mental ill-health.

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