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Sgt Laura Gibson: ‘It would be fantastic to be in a place where officers don’t think ending their life is the only option’

SUBSCRIBE 25th June 2024Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight
Having had her own battles with anxiety and mental health, Police Scotland’s Sgt Laura Gibson embarked on a Churchill Fellowship study to explore the efforts made by law enforcement agencies in the US to better prepare recruits for the psychological impact of the job, as well as to understand more about why officers do take their own lives – lessons she believes could have real benefits in the UK, as she told Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons.

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