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Pros And Cons Of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Officers

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Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Officers (EMPO) finds themselves in constant physical, emotional and psychological challenging situations. Such situations make it possible to assume that professionals working within the Metro Police too long could be more susceptible to trauma, depression, suicide ideation than professionals in less demanding situations. The fact that metro police are usually the first people at a crime scene makes them first responders and crisis workers who absorb the traumatic stress from acute reactions of those they help (Burger 2011). This puts them at risk of experiencing vicarious trauma, also known as compassion fatigue, police stress, secondary victimization, secondary traumatic stress, secondary survivor stress and
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