A Comparative Study of Frustration, Depression and Deprivation Amongst Trainee and Serving Police Officials

Abstract

Psychological health of police in India seldom gets adequate attention. It is generally gathered that police in India is stressed, strained and overworked. Several maladies afflicting police these days are attributable to certain psychological nature that could be linked to various unfavorable aspects of policing. While there can be many consequences worth studying, this paper is limited to focus upon the three parameters- frustration, depression and deprivation amongst the two group of police officials viz., serving police officials and trainee officials.

Keywords: Police