Write a 200- to 300-word response addressing the following questions:

How does stress affect the policing community?
How does police culture support police officers in evolving job situations?
What resources exist to help officers handle stress?

When stress affects the policing community it can have a negative impact on officers, even meaning the matter of life and death. It is important for police officers to maintain their stress to a minimal level to avoid many different side effects of it. When police are stressed it can cause depression, anxiety, anger issues, and many more things. Each one of these side effects is not a good thing for an officer because it can cloud their judgment and make them make the wrong decision or not react fast enough. Typically when a police officer is involved with a on the job situation they will go through some type of debriefing or counseling by someone, this is especially true when it comes to a shooting because some officers may feel they did something wrong by shooting and/or killing someone. As well as being debriefed and counseled because of a stressful situation, it also helps them to remember all the details of the event in case it goes to court. There are many resources available to officers to help assist them in dealing with job related stress. When I worked at the prison we had an EAP (Employee Assistance Program). In a nut shell it was your typical counseling session with a trained professional, we were allowed a certain number of visits with them per year at no cost or insurance deductible. Other departments throughout the United States may have similar programs to this, but they all involve with a trained professional assisting or talking to an officer to help them cope with a traumatic or stressful