Survive and Thrive: Resilience Tactics Every Police Officer Needs

In the challenging and often unpredictable world that law enforcement officers operate in, resilience is not just a useful trait—it's a necessity.

You won’t find resilience on any list of qualifications needed to be a police officer. Resilience is also absent any conversations that may take place in oral board interviews.

However, resilience starts to poke its head out about halfway through the police academy letting recruits know that there’s something a bit different about police work. Something that tells them that policing is all too different than where they came from.