Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Surviving the emotional path of police work

International policing expert speaks at wellness conference in Moose Jaw

Dr. Kevin Gilmartin gives a presentation at the first
annual  Saskatchewan Wellness Conference, put on by
the Moose Jaw Police Association, the Moose Jaw Police
Service and the Saskatchewan Federation of Police
Officers, at the Heritage Inn on Oct. 29, 2015.
The conference drew officers from across Canada.
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald

By Lisa Goudy

Dr. Kevin Gilmartin believes that "every community has the police department that it deserves," he said.

"If you don't invest in your police officers and their wellbeing, you'll end up with a sub-par police department and everybody suffers. So I like that saying," he said. "When you invest in your police, you'll have a force worth serving the community."

Gilmartin, a world-renowned policing expert who spent 20 years in law enforcement in Tucson, Ariz. supervising the Behavioural Sciences Unit and the Hostage Negotiations Team and who is also a guest instructor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va., was one of the keynote speakers at the first annual Saskatchewan Police Officer Wellness Conference on Thursday at the Heritage Inn.

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