You also further testified here as well that a large, rather large increase in suicide is seen in officers with 1519 years of service. The question becomes there is a population of Police Officers that are going out, particularly those they might age group okay. We are in the twilight of our careers, and much of what youre talking about, much of the research i assume has been validated pretty much on this population, on my population come if you will. If we consider the fact that theres a younger population of young men and women that are coming our Police Departments today, entirely different generation, 21, 22 years of age anecdotally they are much healthier, they grew up in a time when they become more Health Conscious because the parents more Health Conscious. They are less likely to drink, smoke, hang out, do the police club clique club that introduced a lot of these illnesses that we are very much familiar with. But whats really striking is the fact that for many of these young p
Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated some of them in my written testimony. I want to just spend a moment though reemphasizing the leadership that the attorney general of the United States eric holder, has focused on issue of officer safety and wellness. Im not sure he is getting enough credit for his leadership. Just a few years ago, when deaths were spiking, 171 officers killed in 2011 he held a summit in his office with about 40 L
Vehicles your chances of coming out of that is going to be very, very little, and we realize that this is one of the most important things that as we are experiencing a very Strong Economy in San Francisco with all of the developments, not just downtown, but in our neighborhoods, people rehabbing their homes, Small Businesses rehabbing and from fires and other disasters or the local neighborhoods or in the downtown corridor this is very important. I know supervisor kim this is one of the most important things she said to me as we experience large number of accidents in the last couple of years that we have to make a much more serious effort. All of the advocates said the same thing so its been my personal objective that we had with mta and dpw lead this effort with police and others and not just to slow down traffic, not just to get congestion out of the way, not to decongest the boxes but we also have to make sure that all of our utility vehicles in the city whether theyre driven by d
We have one on skype. Well start with chief zachery, the Public Safety director woodway, texas, and immediate past president of the International Association of chiefs of police. Yost, good to have you. Thank you, sir. Thanks for inviting me to testify today. My name is yost zachery, immediate past president of the im sorry i wasnt able to join you in person today. I intended to but my flights were canceled. I began Law Enforcement dispatcher woodway in 1979 and im still there today and currently serve as a chief and a director of the Public Safety department. One of my main duties as a chief is to ensure safety and wellbeing of my officers is there. This means making sure they have the proper training and equipment they need to do their job safely so they can return home each and every day to their loved one. During my time as president iecp, officer safety and wellness was one of my top priorities. Its always been a top priority of iecp. It is the position of that organization that n
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