LINKING WORK AND DOMESTIC PROBLEMS WITH POLICE SUICIDE

We reviewed the records of 134 police officers who had undergone their first fitness-for-duty evaluation at our center. Fifty-five percent a dmitted to previous suicide attempts. We examined possible contributin g factors. A logistic regression model correctly classified 79.1% of s ubjects as to whether or not they attempted suicide. Results indicated that officers reporting marital problems were 4.8 times more likely t o have attempted suicide, and 6.7 times more likely if they had been s uspended. Interestingly, complaints of being administratively harassed were associated with a lower likelihood that an officer would attempt suicide. Variance explained due to age, race, gender, and substance u se was nonsignificant.