PTSD 'at crisis levels' among police officers
PC Lee Jackson is one of thousands of officers to have been diagnosed with the condition
A Taser-trained response officer at Durham Police with over 19 years' service, he's dealt with almost every crime imaginable and was once three minutes from death after becoming impaled on a broken car aerial while investigating a car crash. "It was a Friday night on my own," he said."I pulled up to stop some people arguing because it was starting to get a little bit more physical".His eye became infected, leaving him temporarily blinded. He took a week off work but after returning began to have flashbacks at night."I would wake up sort of in a sweat and physically feel like I'd been back living that moment again," says PC Jackson.
"What I'd done is just to put them away in a box in my brain, left them, and never had a chance to go back," he explains. "This is a clinical and public sector crisis," she says, pointing out that the rates of PTSD in the police are almost five times higher than in the general population. Gill Scott-Moore, chief executive of Police Care UK, the charity which funded the research, says: "The service has real challenges around recognising and responding to the signs and symptoms of trauma exposure and is heavily reliant upon generic NHS provision that isn't equipped for the specialist treatment needed."
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