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In his 40-year policing career, Graham Ashton attended way too many funerals of colleagues who took their lives.
That is why the former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police is supporting a new free online program called Peak Fortem.
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Former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Graham Ashton.(Nine) It just continued to harden my resolve that this was something we needed to do something about, Mr Ashton said. It s preventable, we can do things to try and prevent mental illness.
The program will equip first responders and their families with proactive tools to build their mental fitness and enable them to better work through the varying stressors and trauma that may occur in carrying out their role.