Policy
The Police Assistance Program (PAP) offers 24 hours per day, seven days per week emergency counseling and in‑office personal and group counseling for MPD employees and their family members or significant others. MPD employees trained to serve as peer counselors are available to other employees for crisis counseling. Employees may be referred to PAP by a supervisor, a peer counselor, or through self-referral. Employees needing program services should contact the Police Assistance Program staff at the phone number listed in the department directory.
Definitions
Refer to the Commonly Used Terms page for general definitions.
- Crisis: An event or situation where a person's safety and health may be threatened by behavioral health challenges, to include mental health conditions, intellectual or developmental disabilities, substance use, or overwhelming stressors. A crisis can involve a person's perception or experience of an event or situation as an intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person's current resources and coping mechanisms and may include unusual stress in their life that renders the person unable to function as they normally would.