why would you expect as a police officer to interact with people suffering from a personality disorder?

Answer 1

Do you mean Why or How?? Why...well sometimes people call the cops if they are frightened of bizarre or violent behaviour by someone with a disorder. How...well most of the officers I've ever known were trained to treat all people with at least verbal courtesy unless under visible, evident threat.
The question is unclear. Could you elaborate?

Answer 2

Police officers have to interact with anyone who appears to be committing a crime or compromising public order/safety. The police therefore come into contact with people with the whole range of mental disorders. Sometimes the mental disorder will cause the person to act in a way which draws the attention of the police, at other times it will be incidental to the crime committed.

If a police officer suspects that the person detained is suffering from a mental disorder, s/he can take the person to a place of safety under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and request an assesment under by an Approved Social Worker (ASW). If behaviour first appears disturbed while at the police station, officers may intially ask for assessment from a Forensic Medical Officer (FMO).

Actually, of course, police officers, just like the rest of us, interact with people who have been diagnosed with personality disorders everyday, the vast majority of whom are no or less more likely to offend that the general population.

However, there does appear to be an association between Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder and serious violent offending, although you need to be aware that this is a highly contraversial and stigmatising diagnosis/label and not everyone believes that it is appropriate or helpful (this is in fact true of all PD diagnoses). A number of studies have also shown that Borderline Personality Disorder is highly prevalant amongst female prisoners.

Until quite recently, PD was considered to be a label which condemned patients/offenders to being seen as "untreatable" by the mental health services, and therefore held in the general prsion population rather than seen as "mentally disordered offenders". However, government policy is now that PD is "no longer a diagnosis of exclusion" and a number of studies are underway into how personality disordered individuals can be better served and managed by the criminal justice and mental health services.

Answer 3

The majority of personality disorders lead to offending. Personality disorders are classified into 3 clusters in the catalogue of diagnosis

Cluster A contains scitzoid Pd , paranoid pd and scizotypal Pd

These are often odd and eccentric manners but also are more self pitying than others. These PD's mean that the individual sufferer can interpret things in the wrong way hence murder or attacks may be on the agenda. Usually these PD sufferers however tend to keep to themselves and are not much trouble to the police .

The greatest harm comes from Cluster B. 60% of offenders are believed to have at least some symptoms from these PD sufferers

These include Antisocial PD - these people ignore the usual social norms and are callous in their actions they also are very violent in realtionships

Borderline PD - this iss common in women and contains unstable realtionships and unpredictable destructive behaviour

Narcisstic PD - exaggerated sense of self worth these people hate losing and become manipulative when they do .


The last cluster is avodiant - sensitive to rejection

dependant - clingy need reassurance

obbsesive complusive - strive for unavaliable perfection .


Equally is the psychopath this is hard to define generally they are charming dishonest manipulative egocentric feel no empathy no lasting attachments anti social and blatent lack of remorse. Look at Ted BUndy the famous seriel killer he was diagnosed with psychopathy.


Hence PD's often lead to offenders equally the rate of reoffending is extremely high in PD sufferers. Futher more PD's can be hard to diagnose and virtually impossible to treat. The instablity in their personalities lead to a lot of offending so obviously police officers interact with them a lot .



- Hope this helps dont know if it was what you wnated

Answer 4

That's most likely what you would be dealing with on a daily basis. Depending on the size of the city of course. Look at all the social problems--most caused by individuals with disorders. Police officers need to know how to deal with all types of people but dealing with personality disorders takes sensitivity training and special handling.

Answer 5

I would not expect it. If you mean a common -a-garden- yob, why should the officer treat him any differently than any other criminal? However if you mean a person with an `impaired` personality ( medical reasons, as opposed to deliberately being difficult) then it does become a different matter and the situation , would have to be handled in a different way, although I doubt that an ordinary officer would be qualified to do so, and would have to summon help.

Answer 6

This is a very hard question to answer
You would have to be aware, first and foremost, that they were suffering from such a disorder
You would also have to be aware of the fact that your offender was taking his or her meds faithfully
you would have to address them differently if they had not taken them in a while, they would act differently and not be able to comprehend as well, as if they had been taking their meds faithfully.
I can imagine it must be hard to interact with someone who may be in another reality all together, and sometimes in a very unrestricted environment, good luck
just curious, is there any specific training that might address this?

Answer 7

Because people with a personality disorder, sometimes have changing moods different things trigger theses moods, and they can become violent towards other people. And the police have to be involved.

Answer 8

Hmmm delinquent police officer. Manic police officer. thrilling. I do get your factor although, all of us have some factors of personalities bordering on the cusps of formal affliction. yet Im specific you settle that anybody with a severe character affliction, is possibly to have undesirable social skills and lack of ability to narrate with colleagues and the customary public. Likewise somebody with severe melancholy isn't liable to be appointed.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

i dont know.. i think they should treat chavs with no respect and kick the hell out of them let them feel what its like to be beaten up by a bigger person. as for everyone else it depends on the disorder. i think they should generaly show courtesy and respect.