ABSTRACT
There has been wide-ranging research conducted to identify the sources of police stress. Still, the problem of police stress has not been solved, and damages caused due to maladaptive coping strategies have not been addressed properly. One of the outcomes of accumulated stress is burnout. Police officers must use discernment while acting in their day-to-day activities. There is scanty research on how the element of moral reasoning relates within the conceptual framework of police stress, coping, and burnout. This present chapter investigated the relationship between police stress and coping mechanisms, moral reasoning, and burnout among police officers, primarily in North Zone of Tamil Nadu. Police stress was found to be correlated with coping and burnout. There was no correlation of police stress with moral reasoning.
