Spirituality An Invisible Weapon For Wounded Warriors

摘要

According to Sir Robert Peel, England's pioneer of modern policing, "The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it." If evidence of their actions should not be visible, does it follow that the wounds all law enforcement officers incur carrying out these activities also should remain unseen? The ominous necessity of being armed and vigilant to protect the innocent and defenseless, not to mention their fellow officers and themselves, against the assaults of human predators wounds all those sworn to uphold the law. Fortunately, spirituality, "a universal, human dimension," is an invisible weapon used by law enforcement professionals worldwide, even when they cannot explain its features or precisely identify how it operates. Sometimes, spirituality is misidentified as ethics, emotional intelligence, intuitive policing, or stress management. However, these experience-based behavioral responses and coping mechanisms are learned disciplines that officers employ in their fight to survive wounds inflicted upon them.