{"id":29980,"date":"2017-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/commissioner-says-there-s-a-culture-problem-inside-sapol\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T00:00:00","slug":"commissioner-says-there-s-a-culture-problem-inside-sapol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/commissioner-says-there-s-a-culture-problem-inside-sapol\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner says there\u2019s a culture problem inside SAPOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says the service needs to remove the stigma around mental illness after a South Australian officer took his own life on the weekend.<\/h3>\n<p>An officer based in Cowell died on Sunday after reportedly posting an angry message on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened on Sunday was an absolute tragedy,\u201d Commissioner Stevens told David and Will on FIVEAA breakfast. \u201cAshley was a well regarded police officer, he was well liked in his community, the people who worked with him held him in high regard and thought he was a really good bloke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just his family that deal with his loss of life, it\u2019s the police family too. This has a ripple effect right through the organisation when this sort of thing happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/311427436&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Commissioner said there was a stigma inside policing\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat really needs to change is the culture around policing, and probably within the broader community, that if you put you\u2019re hand up and ask for assistance that you\u2019re going be seen as damaged goods, that you\u2019re career\u2019s at risk\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDealing with the stigma that says it\u2019s not ok put your hand up and ask for help if you need it. Mental health injuries are no different to any other sort injury that a person might suffer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably not just South Australia police, it\u2019s policing generally has this stigma that reporting the fact that you are struggling as a result of a mental health issues will have a negative impact on you from a professional point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said SAPOL had support mechanisms in place to help employees \u201cwhen there are dealing with difficult circumstances that impact on their mental health\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we do better? I think we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/cornesy-fires-back-at-columnist-who-ridiculed-the-crows\"><strong>CORNESY FIRES BACK AT COLUMIST WHO RIDICULED THE ADELAIDE CROWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/backlash-over-push-for-gender-equality-at-traffic-lights\"><strong>BACKLASH OVER PUSH FOR GENDER EQUALITY AT TRAFFIC LIGHTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says the service needs to remove the stigma around mental illness after a South Australian officer took his own life on the weekend. An officer based in Cowell died on Sunday after reportedly posting an angry message on Facebook. \u201cWhat happened on Sunday was an absolute tragedy,\u201d Commissioner Stevens told David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Commissioner says there\u2019s a culture problem inside SAPOL - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/commissioner-says-there-s-a-culture-problem-inside-sapol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Commissioner says there\u2019s a culture problem inside SAPOL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police Commissioner Grant Stevens says the service needs to remove the stigma around mental illness after a South Australian officer took his own life on the weekend. 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