French police suicide rate climbs, French govt is flummoxed.
Three riot police officers, a police commander, a police academy teacher — all are among eight French police officers who have killed themselves recently. That makes 64 so far this year — and the number just keeps on climbing.
"Given the situation today, 2019 could be the worst in the last 30 years," said Denis Jacob, head of the Alternative Police CFDT union. While psychological trauma, including encounters with violence, is a risk factor for suicide, there are 10-15 factors that can feed the"acute crisis" which leads to taking one's own life, Catherine Pinson, a psychologist in charge of the police support service, told the Senate inquiry.
He doesn't believe that PTSD — with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — is at the root of the problem, noting the dip in police suicides in 2015 when deadly Islamic State attacks in France began in January and culminated in November with the Paris massacres that left 130 people dead. In Italy, a fellow European nation slightly less populous than France, 31 officers have killed themselves this year, according to the police support group Cerchioblu. Britain's Office for National Statistics counts 21 to 23 police suicides a year between 2015 and 2017, but unlike in France, most British police do not have guns.
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