POLICE Department

Psychological Services

The division’s mission is to enhance the mental well‐being and professionalism of classified and civilian employees to maintain the public confi-dence as they serve the community. Psychologi-cal Services serves four primary functions within the Police Department:

• Administrative Consultation: The division serves as an advisor or expert for specific critical incidents, committees, conferences, and projects.
• Counseling: The division provides more than 500 counseling sessions per month for per-sonnel and their families. Therapy is general-ly voluntary, except in a limited number of situations.
• Psychological Evaluations: Psychologists screen police applicants, jail attendants, and officers transferring to specialized investiga-tive and tactical divisions.
• Training: The unit develops and provides mandatory and elective training for employ-ees.