Hi everyone, Happy Friday.ð
If any of you has a law enforcement background, this post is for you!
Recently, we had the pleasure to virtually connect with Graham Goulden from Scotland.
Graham is an experienced and committed leadership and violence prevention trainer. For thirty years he was a Scottish police officer and Chief Investigator specialising in criminal investigation, drug investigation, training and crime prevention.
For the last eight years of policing career he was a Chief Inspector and a key member of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit.
When he retired from the police service in 2017, he had a markedly different perspective of policing than when he started in 1987. While that tends to happen due to maturity of the individual and their experiences on the job, for him it had a lot to do with the training he received in his final years in Scotland's Violence Reduction Unit, training that exposed him to the role played by Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma.
Read Graham's sign-off on the day he retired at the link below. His insights on ACEs and Trauma are heart warming.
It is clear to me that such Trauma-Informed Policing, backed by a trauma informed justice system, would be a boost to dealing with crime and offending behaviour in the Caribbean.
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