Police Chaplains Today

The award pictured here was given to me in 2018 for the work I do as a police chaplain. Although it is a Spartan Warrior, it also depicts the armour talked about in the New Testament of the bible. This award is handed out by a secular organization called Badge of Life Canada and their mission is to bring resources to first responders who struggle with mental health issues, usually related to work. In the world we live in most people accept that there is a need to maintain good physical health and today more than ever, good mental health. When you look at wellness programs within policing and pretty well any organization, these two aspects of "health" take priority. For some reason most want to overlook a third area of health: spiritual. More specifically for me it is the Christian faith that centres on a relationship with Jesus. We just celebrated Christmas and believe it or not, it is a reminder that Jesus Christ was born to bring healing to hurting people. He came to fix th...

We all know the line: you sound like a broken record. As I get older there is always the danger of me repeating myself unintentionally and having friends pretend they are hearing it for the first time. I realize I am close to that place already today and it is why I always hesitate to bring up the issue I am bringing again today. I do so however, after listening to 3 cops of various rank, all listing off resources to help our Toronto cops who are struggling with personal issues. Guess what resource was forgotten by each one? As I was listening I was actually trying to get the men being interviewed to say the word from behind my computer. How hard could it be to say that one resource that every division at TPS has? I was waiting but the word never escaped their lips. Pretty well every other resource was mentioned but not the one I have talked about over and over again in my blogs. I am also not going to use the word because I want you to figure it out yourself. This resource would help ...