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For law enforcement officer, police chaplain, military personnel and other professionals who give death notifications
This Death Notification Training Video was created and produced by Nancy Davis, Ph.D., during the period she served as Chief of Counseling Services, of the Employee Assistance Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation with the assistance and recommendations from:
- The Multi-Media Resources Unit, FBI Academy; summer; 2000 This unit also filmed and mastered this video.
- The Immense Experience
- The immense experience of FBI chaplain, Denny Hayes, M.S., M. DIV. Director of Human Services for the Onondaga County, New York Sheriff’s Office, in giving over 600 death notifications; he also serves as the narrator of this training video.
- Numerous individuals whose stories of grief and loss of loved ones, friends and/or partners to Dr. Davis described the manner in which they were informed of the death and whether the manner in which they had been notified had been helpful or increased the traumatic nature of this experience.
- “In Person, In Time” distributed by Concerns of Police Survivors
- “Line-of-Duty Death Policy” of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Susan Reed, surviving spouse of FBI Special Agent Chuck Reed for taking a traumatic death notification and using what she had learned to recommend how they should be given.
Features:
Special Agent Steve Spruill, EAP Regional Coordinator, FBI Academy (now retired) and Special Agent George DeShazor, MS, Instructor, Behavioral Science Unit, FBI Academy as the law enforcement team giving a death notification
Graduates of the National Academy, Class of 2000, Federal Bureau of Investigation Training Academy, Quantico, Virginia; these law enforcement officers volunteered to share on-the-job experiences and recommendations gained in giving death notifications:
Ltd. Bryan Lockerby, Great Falls Police Department
Captain Clarke Fine, Hendricks County Indiana Sheriff’s Department
Captain Paul Stavenger, Merrimack, New Hampshire Police Department
Captain Kristina Wolf, Livermore California Police Department
Deputy Inspector Steven Silks, New York City Police Department
Captain Delmut Steele, Washington State Police
Wallet-size reminders of the key points in giving death notifications can be created by printing the following list on heavy paper, placing these copies back to back, then laminating the two together:
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