Lexipol | How police leaders can help officers better handle organizational stressors

Published on May 21, 2023

Police veterans Bill Mazur and Joe Collins discuss the important role supervisors play in building officer resiliency. Bill is a strategic account manager and public safety liaison with Acadia Healthcare who retired from his department in 2017 at the rank of Deputy Chief of Police. He currently serves as a Master Instructor with the FBI National Academy Associates, in their Comprehensive Officer Resiliency Training Program. Joseph “Joe” Collins is a public safety liaison with Acadia Healthcare who retired in 2020 from the Two Rivers (Wisconsin) Police Department as chief of police. He is a master instructor with the FBINAA’s Comprehensive Officer Resilience Train-the-Trainer Program and serves as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice as a subject matter expert in officer resilience.

"Undesirable behavior may be a sign of unwellness. That is not meant to give people free passes and excuses to not follow policy. But not everything should be defaulted to 'how do we discipline them?'"

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