Armor Your Self: How to Survive a Career in Law Enforcement: Guidance and Support for Officers and Their Families

Armor Your Self(TM) How To Survive A Career In Law Enforcement helps law enforcement professionals armor themselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This book is also for law enforcement family members to use to learn how to help your family survive this career as well.

This book is about "Saving the Lives of the People Who Save Lives"

Police work is the most toxic job on the planet, and if the members of the law enforcement community don't take measures to protect themselves, this job will eat them up

If law enforcement officers did a true threat assessment of their careers, they would realize that the real dangers lie not with the bad guys, but within the stresses of the job. High rates of suicide, depression, alcoholism, domestic violence, PTSD, heart attack and cancer are the real cop killers.

In this book you will learn about:

- Blue Trauma Syndrome
- The 7 Key Factors of Tactical Resilience(TM)
- Comprehensive Survival Skills to Save Your Life and Your Health
- Critical Concepts for Stress Reduction
- How to Armor Your Agency(TM)
- The Concept of True Blue Valor(TM)

This book is filled with practical exercises, tactics and techniques to help you build your resilience intentionally

Many people who serve, and who have served, in law enforcement bear the scars of the cumulative stresses that accompany the career. The Law Enforcement Survival Institute (LESI) and CopsAlive.com work tirelessly to assemble strategies, tactics and best practices to help anyone working in this profession successfully survive their career. LESI and CopsAlive.com work with agencies and families to create environments that support healthy, happy and effective law enforcement professionals both on the job and at home.

Author: John S. Marx
Publisher: Law Enforcement Survival Institute, LLC
Published: 06/02/2017
Pages: 458
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780983534433

About the Author
Marx, John S.: - John Marx, CPP John Marx was a Police Officer for twenty-three years and served as a Hostage Negotiator for nineteen of those years. He worked in both a sheriff's office and a municipal police department. He has served as a patrol officer, media liaison officer, crime prevention officer and burglary detective. He was also the administrator of his city's Community Policing project which they called Community Oriented Governance because it involved over 70 city employee volunteers from all city departments serving as neighborhood team leaders and team members. John retired from law enforcement in 2002. When one of his friends, also a former police officer, committed suicide at age 38, John began researching the problems that trauma and negative stress create for police officers. In 2008 John founded The Law Enforcement Survival Institute (LESI) and began writing on CopsAlive.com. The mission of both LESI and CopsAlive is to save the lives of the people who save lives! John holds a lifetime Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification from the American Society For Industrial Security. The Law Enforcement Survival Institute gathers information, strategies and tools to help law enforcement professionals plan for happy, healthy and successful careers, relationships and lives and distributes that information through it's training programs and on www.CopsAlive.com. As well as working with law enforcement agencies John also works as a private consultant and has provided training in the leadership development programs of several Fortune 100 corporations. Learn more about John and his work at www.LawEnforcementSurvivalInstitute.org, www.CopsAlive.com and www.ArmorYourSelf.com

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