Students will create a 6 to 8 slide Powerpoint® presentation (minus the title slide and reference slide) addressing the various roles of a psychologist in the law enforcement community. Some of the...

Roles of a psychologist in the law enforcement community
Roles of a psychologist in the law enforcement community
Family counselling, addiction counselling, fit for Duty testing and many more.
Roles of a psychologist in the law enforcement community
Creating analysis of confessions.
Educating on stress and anger management
Assist police in dealing with people who are mentally and physically differently abled.
Fitness for duty evaluations.
Counselling services for officers and their families.
Apart from the basic scheduling, there are so many more roles and job responsibilities that a police psychologist fulfils. The roles are named in the above slide.
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Creating analysis of confessions.
People sometimes confess to crimes that they did not commit.
This happens due to trauma, shock or guilt.
Young people are mainly vulnerable to confessing to such crimes.
People do it to escape the stress and pressure caused by the discussion of that incident.
False confessions can set the real criminals free thereby increasing more risks of such crimes happening.
Hence the role of a police psychologist as someone analyzing confessions is important. Above are the reasons why creating analysis of confessions must be done.
Many people, under pressure, admit crimes that they did not commit in the first place. Such mistakes can be found out with the help of a psychologist.
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Educating on stress and anger management.
Anger and stress can lead to clouding of...