Event Phone: 205-759-3000

The Alabama Law Enforcement Alliance for Peer Support (ALLEAPS), in cooperation with the Tuscaloosa Police Department, will provide peer support training at The Tuscaloosa Law Enforcement Academy: APOSTC, 7601 Robert Cardinal Road, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 18 – 21, 2024.  This 32-hour training has limited seating, and there is no cost for the training.

 

The purpose of this course is to provide law enforcement officers with a distinct skill set, allowing them to deal with and assist other officers following high-stress job-related events such as:

• Officer-Involved Shooting
• Officer Down
• Mass Casualty
• Custodial Death
• Suicide
• Child Death, etc.

 

Additional topics explain the reasons for (and provide solutions):

• Why do police officers live 20 years less than the general public?
• Why do law enforcement officers commit suicide at 3-4 times the rate more than we are killed in the line of duty?
• Why career police officers in the U.S. are ranked first in Alcoholism, Divorce, Heart Disease, and PTSD!

 

ALLEAPS is NOT counseling.  ALLEAPS is a highly effective peer-driven support system that exists exclusively within the law enforcement brotherhood instead of with well-meaning mental health professionals that officers typically don’t trust.

 

Completing this peer support program qualifies officers to be certified peer support members as identified in Title 36-21-14, Code of Alabama.  This certification provides them with the identical privileged communication protection currently in place for a lawyer/client or doctor/patient.

 

This law enforcement training is RESTRICTED TO CERTIFIED PEACE OFFICERS, RETIREES, EMA OFFICERS, AND 911 DISPATCHERS/CALL-TAKERS with valid credentials.  Upon approval, Chaplains and Mental health professionals who comply with the requirements of 36-21-14, Code of Alabama, may be permitted to attend.

 

The officer should have a good reputation, an understanding of the law enforcement brother/sisterhood, and the willingness to step up and take action when another police officer is in need.

 

Registration:  www.alleaps.org      Training

 

Sponsored by the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, Dothan, Alabama

 

For local information, contact:

Sgt. Jason Hallman, Tuscaloosa Police Department

(205) 454-8905 Cell

 

For more information regarding peer support, visit www.alleaps.org.