Plant seeds, not billboards: how evidence-based policing should grow
How police leaders can help frontline ideas become tested improvements: spot it, tell it, work it, share it.
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Cognitive difference among officers and the people the police meet.
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How police leaders can help frontline ideas become tested improvements: spot it, tell it, work it, share it.
Police wellbeing is not only an individual resilience issue. Organisational stressors, fatigue and poor supervision are associated with worse mental wellbeing and impaired performance. The strongest leadership response is to change working conditions as well as offer support.
UK police employees with autism and ADHD report both strengths and barriers at work, with workplace adjustments frequently requested but not made. The evidence supports better management and adjustments — not stereotypes about what neurodivergent officers can or cannot do.