Main description:

How does it feel to be a police officer in the UK? What happens in the brains of officers, particularly in high-risk roles such as counter-terrorism and child sexual exploitation? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience, be it trauma exposure, burnout or simply the daily pressure of adapting to life on the front line.
A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical, easy-to-follow resilience techniques applicable to anyone in the wider emergency responder community. The book also offers policy and operational recommendations to equip police officers with skills to face crime in a post-COVID world.

Contents:

1. Why the Need to Be Resilient? How It Feels to Be a Police Officer in the UK and Why
2. Risks to Resilience in Operational Policing: From Trauma to Compassion Fatigue
3. What Might Be Happening in the Brain? Introducing Simple Neuroscience for Policing
4. Turning Science into Action: Resilience Practices for Policing
5. What Now? The Big Step Change