Stop and breathe: police staff offered meditation lessons

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Trial across five forces finds practice improves wellbeing, resilience and work performance

Meditation lessons aimed at reducing stress will be made available to all 200,000 police staff in England and Wales after a trial across five forces found the practice improved average wellbeing, life satisfaction, resilience and work performance.

More than 600 officers and staff in Avon and Somerset, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and South Wales spent six months practising mindfulness techniques – originally derived from Buddhism – as part of a randomised controlled trial overseen by the College of Policing.

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