The Texas Law Enforcement Peer Network, housed at the Caruth Police Institute at UNT Dallas, trains officers to provide mental and emotional help for fellow officers.
"We've witnessed too many times the toll it can have on an officer's career. Not just on the officers themselves, but on their families and homes lives," said State Senator Royce West , who co-sponsored the bill that created the program.Fort Worth police union offering free, discreet counseling for officers struggling with mental health"That's a problem.
"This is one of the most important things in law enforcement that I have seen," Garcia said. "It is a true culture change from how we did not practice policing many years ago."
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