Author(s):
Helen Behn

Institution:
Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen

Title:
Results of a survey of police cadets at the Police Academy of Lower Saxony on the subject of Suicide by Cop

Abstract:
The article presents the main results of the survey of 556 po­lice cadets (students) at the Police Academy of Lower Saxony on the subject of suicide by cop (SbC) and the possible con­sequences of victimization It was shown that 64 4 % of those who had been questioned had no knowledge of the phenome­non at all (response rate: 64 %) As a more specific question they were asked about the personal inhibition threshold for using the firearm More than 50 % of the respondents esti­mated the inhibition threshold as very high or rather high 43.2 % feared personal consequences of victimization, which would lead to the fact that there could occur problems to work as a policeofficer The results illustrate the importance of the topic that has not yet been anchored in police training.

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