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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Peter Brewer

Access to firearms among dilemmas of managing police mental health

Discretionary paid leave for police under mental health stress and tough restrictions on officer access to firearms during these leave periods have been recommended in the wake of three suicide deaths of federal officers over seven months from October 2018.

ACT chief coroner Ken Archer handed down a series of recommendations after collectively assessing the three deaths, all of which involved Australian Federal Police officers taking their own lives with their own service weapons.

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