title: Suicide among police.
abstract: The author presents and comments on recently acquired police suicide data from several cities in the United States and from the Metropolitan Police Department of London and on extensive archival police suicide files. He also explores some of the psychosocial factors that may affect the high incidence of suicide among people who actively specialize in police work.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D004243:Divorce; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012179:Retirement; D012918:Social Alienation; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013405:Suicide / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States