It wears on the psyche to be employed in the country’s jails and prisons.
New figures from the Bahis Siteleri Fængselsforbundet shows that 93 warders and værkmestre have been made redundant due to ill health this year. And it’s just in the first ten months.
It is a record high and more than twice as many as normal.
Secretary of Fængselsforbundet Erik Holmstad Larsen explains that nine out of ten are dismissed as a result of mental stress, as they have contracted during working hours.
More suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Violence and threats take up much space, because the clientele of the prisons have been harder. We have more gang members, and it puts pressure on the staff, which is constantly on alert, says Erik Holmstad Larsen.
While the number of gangs are previously limited to primarily the Hells Angels and the Bandidos, now there are so many factions that it is impossible to keep them in each department.
– today, there are at least ten different gangs in the large prisons, and it provides a lot of conflicts. They are more voldsparate, and they have a network, which makes the threats, they come with, seems more sincere, says Erik Holmstad Larsen.
of The 93 officers is similar to that for 3.8 percent of all prison officers have been forced to leave the job for health reasons. For comparison, the same applies to 0.3 percent of all people employed in Denmark.
Thus is the risk of a prison guard being worn, ten times larger than for the other danes.
Spokesman for the Social democrats Jeppe Bruus believe that the 93 dismissed cops are too many. It is particularly worrying that many have PTSD.
Why has the ministry of Justice set a work in progress, which will identify what can be done to prevent that so many people are.
– at the same time, we have decided that we will employ more cops. It is among other things an education in the midwest, says Jeppe Bruus.
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