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THE TOP 12 URBAN LEGENDS ABOUT POLICE SUICIDE: How do they get started?  How are they spread?  Find out on our page, Current Myths.  

All services and materials provided by the Badge of Life are free.  This includes classes, lectures, seminars and briefings for management staff interested in broadening their program.  If you would like any of our videos, lesson plans or power points, just let us know and we'll send them to you free of charge.

FREE VIDEOS (click any of below to view)  (Available free on DVD)

Video:   How Many Police Suicides (really)?

NEWS ARTICLES  

Oakland Tribune

New Haven Independent

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention 2009

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention 2008

Contra Costa Times 

 

 

 

 

THE FIRST "LINE OF DUTY SUICIDE" IS RECOGNIZED 

  

 

 

Can the stress and trauma of police work result in suicide?   "Never!" say U.S. police chiefs.

   

"Honour for cop overdue": Trauma ultimately took Canadian officer's life (Toronto Sun)

 

TORONTO WSIB THE FIRST TO RECOGNIZE POLICE SUICIDES FROM PTSD (Toronto Sun)

 

Canada recognizes a deserving police suicide as "in the line of duty." (Toronto Sun)

 

 The moving story of the Eddie Adamson suicide in Toronto, Canada, by Art Lymer, former president of the Toronto Police Officers' Association.