Dell P. Hackett has over 28 years
law enforcement experience. As a member of the Lane County Sheriff’s Office (Oregon), he has served as a patrol deputy
sheriff, shift supervisor, watch commander, and traffic unit supervisor. He was most recently assigned as the middle manager
in charge of the departments Special Operations Unit. Dell has eight years of past SWAT experience. He has been certified
as an emergency vehicle operations (EVOC) instructor, and a senior firearms instructor. And, he is a graduate of the FBI National
Academy.
Dell Hackett is a board certified
expert in traumatic stress and a Diplomate member of the National Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and the American
Board of Law Enforcement Experts. Dell was heavily involved in the formation of the Lane County Sheriff’s Office’s
critical incident de-briefing team and the peer support unit. He has spoken on a national and international basis on topics
relating to law enforcement stress, police suicide, and leadership issues. Dell Hackett has been a requested speaker for several
groups, both law enforcement and civilian, from around the nation. Dell Hackett
is the co-author of Police Suicide: Tactics
for Prevention.
According to the book description
of Police Suicide: Tactics for Prevention,
“the range of information in this book is broad and offers strategies and tactics that may help to prevent suicides.
It was written by several skilled and caring professionals, and it was their aim to give law enforcement officers, administrators,
and mental health professionals additional information and skills in dealing with law enforcement officers in crisis. It will
be interesting and useful to those who would read it with the intention of understanding this dilemma faced by law enforcement
and who have a desire to continue the search for possible solutions. The book contains far more than that which would usually
come to mind concerning the subject of self-destructive behavior. Its main focus concerns such diverse and very important
areas as the police culture, the supervisor’s role in intervention, departmental denial of the problem, getting officers
to seek help, family issues, and survivor issues. All are intended to get the reader closer to being able to identify officers
who may be in harms way, offer solutions to those who seek help, and hopefully prevent police suicides. Only recently has
the identification of police stress and the subsequent counterproductive behaviors been exposed and accepted within the culture.
We have learned that the police occupation is different from all others and that it is all right to be different. This new
understanding may also provide a potential remedy for some of law enforcement’s greatest ills: alcohol abuse, family
abuse, and the subsequent consequences. It is the hope, therefore, that the information in this book will prevent future suicides
and even reverse the thinking that leads to such life-ending decisions. It is a "must read" for law enforcement officers,
probation and parole officers, supervisors, mental health professionals, educators, criminal justice students and professors.
It is complete and well researched; a cooperative effort, not a competitive one; a journey of discovery and hope.”
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