DHS Suicide Prevention and Resiliency for Law Enforcement Act

This bill would create a Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Program within the Department of Homeland Security's Chief Medical Officer's office for officers and agents in agencies such as Customs and Border Protection, ICE, the Secret Service, and TSA. The program would collect data on officer mental health and suicides, evaluate existing programs, promote training, and set up a Peer-to-Peer Support Program Advisory Council. Each agency would have to offer several ways to get counseling, including anonymous outside options, and protect officers from discipline or retaliation solely for seeking mental health help. Agencies would provide suicide awareness and resiliency training at hiring, yearly, and when moving into supervisory roles, and the Department would run annual confidential surveys and report officer suicides to a federal data collection program.

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Sponsors

• Bennie G. Thompson Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors