Language: | English | Title: | Suicidality in the police | Abstract: | The current scientific findings show a high probability of a recurrence of a suicide attempt with a police officer who has already tried to commit suicide. They problematize the reliability of psychological examinations for limited firearm access. The article presents good practice in confronting the issue of suicide among members of the Slovenian Armed Forces, which could serve as a model for the police officer protection measures. Since 1991, the number of suicides in the police has been gradually decreasing. However, in the period 2009-2020, the number has been moderately increasing, mainly due to the higher number of suicides in the period 2018-2020. With the statistic method Chi-squared test, we have established that the number of suicides in the period 2018-2020 is not statistically significant in comparison to the period 2009-2017, or its significance is borderline. | Keywords: | suicide, suicidality, police |
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