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Episode: SARAH JANE LENNIE: The impact of emotional labour on police officers
Description: Sarah-Jane (SJ) Lennie served as a police officer for 18 years before struggling with her mental health and finally making a personally difficult decision to change her career. It was only at the point of finally speaking out about her own experiences of mental ill-health that she came to realise how many of her colleagues were also suffering, though no one was talking. Coming from a family of police officers, with both parents and husband serving officers, Sarah Jane has always cared deeply about the policing family. Driven by the belief that police officers should not be expected to suf...