Dr. Terry Coleman was a police officer for nearly 40 years including ten years as a chief of police. Subsequently he was a Deputy Minister for the Saskatchewan provincial government with responsibility for policing and corrections. He describes his current work as a Public Safety Consultant, his research, and his career in policing and what he learned from it. He identifies what he sees as the most challenging of the challenges created by serious mental illnesses for police themselves, the people with whom the police become involved because of erratic and dangerous behavior, and for family mem
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