[USA] Suicide and Public Safety Officers : Disciplinary, Medical and Compensation Issues / AELE, April 2007
2007 (5) AELE Mo. L. J. 201 Employment Law Section - May, 2007
PDF - http://www.aele.org/law/2007FPMAY/2007-05MLJ201.pdf
"For many years, when police officers, corrections officers and firefighters killed themselves, management treated these as isolated events. Counseling often was not available and those who sought treatment were the objects of scorn by their colleagues. Beginning in the 1970s, there was sporadic research and some speculation that law enforcement personnel killed themselves at a higher rate than the general population. Others dispute that. It is also possible that some officer suicides are under-reported as accidental deaths."