ABSTRACT
The fact that police may express more indirectness may be expected from research to date across cultures and also from a broader blue culture. Police collective culture encourages police, and thus suicidal police officers, to adhere to the macho tradition, including in matters of suicide. The suicide of that chief executive officer was the impetus for intervention. The very aim of psychological investigations, retrospective or otherwise, into police suicide is to turn the tragedy into something positive. Although recruit screening in most major police departments involves psychological testing, quite often other personal and social factors are not considered. Robert Loo has suggested that police departments develop criteria to identify and track high-risk officers so that timely support can be provided prior to suicide. Psychological screening is an important part of the selection process for new officers to ensure that these officers possess a reasonable degree of psychological stability and maturity.
