MARGAO
The South Goa district police administration on Tuesday conducted a physical and mental well-being session for the South Goa police to protect the protectors.
District police Chief, Pankaj Kumar Singh said police are exposed to great amounts of human suffering and violence on a daily basis. Over time this can take a serious psychological toll on them, left unattended, sometimes this could pave the way for mental health problems like depression, addiction and PTSD.
In order to inculcate a positive lifestyle with equal focus on mental as well as physical wellbeing of our police force, he said a session was conducted via video conferencing and was attended by officers and staff of all south Goa police stations.
Notable clinical psychologist Prachi Khadeparkar and Adv. Emidio Pinho addressed police staff from all police stations and shared their valuable tips to maintain physical and mental wellbeing.
“By way of conducting such programmes, we wish to provide our staff with the opportunity to develop healthy coping skills and provide them with more tools to deal with the physical and psychological demands of their profession,” he said, adding that more such events will be conducted in the future for police staff to benefit from.
