Law Enforcement Personnel and Stress
The work of the law enforcement personnel itself is very complicated and requires constant physical and emotional costs. Almost every day, officers face with stressful situations, which have a significant impact on their psychological condition. The main symptoms of stress are emotional tension and nervous breakdowns, which negatively affect workflow and sometimes jeopardizes the professional future of the police.
Psychological pressure has an adverse impact on the behavior of the officers, and their interpersonal relationships, reducing the efficiency of work and job satisfaction. The main symptoms of burnout include physical and mental exhaustion, fatigue, loss of effectiveness of job performance and interest in performing official duties, depressive symptoms, depersonalization, and negative emotions toward colleagues (Stevens, 2008). Thus, excessive stressful psychological pressure contributes to decrease of the effectiveness of professional activities up to its complete disorganization, as well as to the formation of different kinds of deformations of personality up to the psyche and body disorders.
Besides, nervous breakdowns are one of the most common symptoms of stress, which threaten the future of professional life of the law enforcement personnel. If fatigue and emotional exhaustion only affect the job performance, a nervous breakdown can be a serious prerequisite to the dismissal of the police officer (Stevens, 2008). This symptom undermines a person's ability to keep calm and may hurt others (Stevens, 2008). For that reason, relaxation, autogenous training, and a number of other measures are of the paramount importance in order to cope with stress at work.
Conclusion
Nervous breakdowns and emotional tensions are those symptoms of stress, which are often experienced by the law enforcement personnel and have an adverse impact on their job performance. These symptoms provoke people to impulsive acts and threaten their professional future. Consequently, law enforcement officers must take all possible measures in order to learn how to cope with the most difficult situations at work.
Reference
Stevens, D. (2008). Police officer stress (1st ed., pp. 130-155). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson …
