Interviewing children and vulnerable witnesses is a highly specialized skill. It requires intensive foundational training and refresher activities to maintain interview quality. While academics and other forensic interview experts can—and should—be used as effective sources of interview feedback, the pool of experts who can provide these services is limited. Therefore, it may benefit police services to build in-house capacity to monitor interview quality on an ongoing basis. This article describes a pilot project in which several Ontario police services attempted to engage in individual and group review sessions over one year.

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By the very nature of police work, sometimes critical incidents occur in extremely short periods of time. Police officers can be confronted with potentially life-threatening dangers seemingly without warning, and these threats can fully evolve within fractions of a second. These dangers can challenge police officers during all types of work that they perform, and the research clearly shows that there is no duty that police officers engage in that is completely safe from the potential for a lethal confrontation.

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We are all too aware of organizational stressors and their impact on the mental health of our sworn and civilian members. Organizational stressors contribute significantly to organizational culture, its toxicity and liability. A toxic organizational culture may elicit bullying and other forms of harassment, and whether intentional or unintentional, the impact of this toxicity may lead to mental health issues and, worst case, suicide.