HIGH SPEED PURSUITS, POLICING, MENTAL HEALTH & PTSD| Ben Pearson's Story

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For this episode I spoke to ex-road cop and star of channel 4's 'Police Interceptor" Ben Pearson.

Ben spent 19 years chasing criminals, dealing with traffic fatalities and risking his life in the English city of Bradford. He would later leave the job due to mental health reasons having struggled with how to deal with the stress and trauma of the job.
We spoke about how he and other cops tried to cope with the pressure by drinking and bottling up emotions and how they felt unable to express any mental instability due to their work environment. Ben shared his internal struggles and his eventual mental break-down as well as his need to hide these feelings while on television.
Ben is also an author and has a YouTube channel dealing with mental health and policing topics.

00:00 Preview
00:40 Growing up in Bradford, Bradford Riots
09:25 Joining police
11:10 DAILY REALITY OF A TRAFFIC COP
17:30 Feeling of engaging in a high-speed pursuit
20:30 QUITTING POLICE DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH
35:40 Hollywood/TV on police & policing in the US
44:20 GUNS- should more cops be armed ?
49:55 CORRUPTION WITHIN THE POLICE ??
58:35 DO COPS TAKE JUSTICE INTO THEIR OWN HANDS??
1:04:00 Have camera phones changed the police’s job?
1:05:30 More pressure to hide mental health struggles while being on reality tv

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