Abstract

Employees in Kenya including police officers are increasingly showing acute signs of burnout. It is widely acknowledged the world over that policing is one of the most stressful of professions. Cases of death through shooting or suicide have been reported, and have lately been on the increase. Frontline police officers often have to confront traumatising incidents almost on a daily basis which can lead to psychological and emotional disturbance. Officers and the public they serve need to be wary of high levels of anxiety, which can be handled through expanded, effective coping strategies such as workplace counselling. This paper advances a multidisciplinary approach to the provision of counselling psychological services for the police service in Kenya using the hermeneutic phenomenology approach.

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