{"id":13142,"date":"2020-02-19T13:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=13142"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:53:54","slug":"to-combat-suicides-nypd-hiring-team-of-psychologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/13142","title":{"rendered":"To combat suicides NYPD hiring, team of psychologists."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2a2a2a;\">The NYPD is forming a new team of psychologists to combat mental-health issues among its ranks following a spate of cop suicides last year. The department announced Tuesday it has hired a head psychologist who will oversee a team of five other mental health experts\u2019 one for each municipality. The move comes as NYPD officers\u00a0mourn the death of Det. Paul Federico. Earlier in February 53-year-old with nearly three decades on the job hanged himself in his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/queens-off-duty-nypd-detective-hangs-self-at-mothers-home\/\">queens-off-duty-nypd-detective-hangs-self-at-mothers-home<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2a2a2a;\">The psychologist, whose name was not released, will start on March 1. The rest of the team has not been hired. This is the latest effort by the NYPD to de-stigmatize mental-health treatment after 10 active-duty cops killed themselves in 2019. In October, the department launched a partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian\u00a0for free counseling and medication\u00a0for officers. Critics previously said the city\u2019s insurance made it\u00a0tough to get mental health help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 15.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2a2a2a;\">A month earlier, NYPD guidelines were changed, allow cops in treatment to keep their badges, even if they are forced to turn over their gun. That system, though, had a rocky roll out with one, 12-year veteran calling the recent shift in policy smoke and mirrors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD is forming a new team of psychologists to combat mental-health issues among its ranks following a spate of cop suicides last year. The department announced Tuesday it has hired a head psychologist who will oversee a team of five other mental health experts\u2019 one for each municipality. The move comes as NYPD officers\u00a0mourn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13144,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions\/13144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}