CLEVELAND, April 27 (UPI) -- A Cleveland university and the U.S. Army are helping train some 90 Ohio police supervisors to recognize and address stress in officers.
The initiative of Case Western Reserve University and the Army is designed to cut the potential for violent confrontations with suspects or life-threatening mistakes.
This is the first such collaboration in the United States between military combat stress experts and a local police force. The training began last week at Case's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
Experts use "stress recognition models" developed by the U.S. military to teach Cleveland's police supervisors to address stress in their ranks and methods for dealing positively with stress.
"Because American soldiers and civilian police officers in the U.S. face many of the same dangers, it's fitting that the military would develop and provide this type of training," said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Mark Chapin, assistant professor of family medicine and director of research at the Uniformed Health University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
