Handcuffed Emotions: A Police Interceptor's Drive into Darkness
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Handcuffed Emotions: A Police Interceptor's Drive into Darkness
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Benjamin Spencer Pearson
Ben Pearson has spent the last 19 years of his life fighting crime. He is in the elite Roads Policing Unit of West Yorkshire Police, featured in the hit TV series Police Interceptors showing on Channel 5. As a decorated officer, he has driven in the fastest, most dangerous pursuits. Arrested murders, rapists, alongside high-profile burglars. Taken down the most violent of offenders, bringing them to justice. Unbeknown to Ben, his greatest fight was yet to come.
After dealing with a series of heinous, fatal collisions and losing his parents, Ben’s mind became his worst enemy. Handcuffed Emotions: A Police Interceptor’s Drive into Darkness, tells of his fight, not only for his family, his health, and his sanity, but against a system that failed him. Ben’s journey stretches from his early training days as a recruit, through the reality of life as a police officer and known TV personality into the dark depths of PTSD. The incidents are real. His emotions overwhelming. The illness devastating. His remarkable handling of it courageous.
Handcuffed Emotions is a must listen for anyone who had suffered debilitating traumas and faced mental illness. It is both enlightening, thought provoking, and brings hope to those who suffer in silence.
©2020 Benjamin Spencer Pearson (P)2021 Benjamin Spencer Pearsonwell done. and thanks.
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amazing
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The interview segments with officers in the event of a serious incident seemed to allow the officers the freedom to let us know that they were affected, but never really have a sense of the compounding effects of such responding to such incidents on the officers.
Ben has created a window to his life and experience of front line policing; how he thought about his career at different stages of his life, how what he saw affected him and those around him. His commentary on the events he witnessed is considered, and allows you to get a small understanding of why such events were traumatic, without resorting to overly graphic descriptions.
This is the side of all emergency service operations the public really needs to see. The shift in television programming to include coverage of the police, fire, ambulance, air ambulance, coastguard, mountain rescue, and other safety and rescue services was important. It opened the public's eyes to some of what happens, and importantly to how those that choose these career paths help us. But perhaps the other side of these careers needs more air time.
There needs to be more discussion about how people are affected by this work, and what is, and more importantly is not being done to help and support them.
As Ben mentions, improvements have been made, and maybe his life would have been different if everything had taken place twenty years later. But there is always more that can be done, and perhaps putting that before the general public is necessary to really bring about change. This book was definitely a step in the right direction.
Eye Opening, Heart Warming and Heart Breaking.
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Funny & heartbreaking in equal measures.
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So glad I did wonderfully read by the author. Beautifully written and very insightful.
Highly recommended.
A Surprising Book very well read
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