The Characteristics of Suicide among Slovene Police Officers over the Past Seven Decades

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The present paper attempts to identify motives and mechanisms which cause or may cause suicidal behaviour among the members of the Slovene Police. We tried to identify such causes and mechanisms by comparing them to those of foreign police forces and to the information on suicidal tendencies of the general population, as well as to the archive data on suicides in the Slovene Police. We found that the data of our analysis does not deviate significantly from the findings of other analyses conducted with respect to this issue in the police forces of other countries.