Sleep, Not Optional

If you happen to not ever have difficulty sleeping and you have perfect sleep habits and the perfect schedule, then this probably doesn't matter much to you. However, in law enforcement, years of shift work, callouts, and extra hours worked make sleep and fatigue management critical.  Huffington Post has an article today about sleep that is interesting.

Sarah Klein article from Huffington Post

Here is another HP article from last year:

"We know that sleep deprivation results in impaired performance both cognitively, physically and emotionally, which can impact decision-making and response time, which are crucial to high stress professions such as law enforcement," Dr. Nanci Yang, a Stanford University professor not directly involved in the study, told ABC News. "It is paramount to public safety that it be addressed."

Police Shift Work and Sleep