Scott Medlin - The Mental Health Fight of The Police
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Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Steve chats with police officer and author Scott Medlin. Scott shares some great stories from his career and also discusses the mental health tools available to police. Scott's book is available on Amazon, see link below. He has also recently started a youtube channel! Subscribe and show your support!
Scott's book - Mental Health Fight of The Heroes In Blue
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086WFFL2Z/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_LFvCFbKPFGSJX
Scott's Youtube Channel - Law Enforcement Motivation
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfVVEChIR4VL69vPz6ehnoQ
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys welcome to the podcast at interviews active and retired police officers about their |
| 0:13.2 | most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job I am your host Steve. |
| 0:18.9 | Thank you for joining us everybody this is gonna be another great interview I'm excited |
| 0:22.6 | to have this guy on he is an author his name is Scott Medlin he was a he's a police officer |
| 0:28.9 | for 12 years in North Carolina that's a municipal agency or a or a city rather he works for a city |
| 0:36.0 | there we're not going to mention it though from 2003 to 2007 he was in the United States Marine |
| 0:41.1 | Corps he was deployed twice and from 2007 until present he's been a police officer he's done his |
| 0:47.8 | posts have included FTO that's field training officer and canine for four years which is a really |
| 0:54.0 | cool job if you want to get into everything you can as a police officer canine is the job for you |
| 1:01.3 | his book is about mental health and and police officers which is it couldn't be more appropriate |
| 1:09.5 | than right now with everything that's going on the whole climate in the country towards police |
| 1:15.3 | the name of his book is mental health fight of the heroes in blue it's available on Amazon I will |
| 1:21.5 | link it so he's got some great stories and I can't wait to hear his angle on the mental health |
| 1:28.0 | fight and and what our officers can do to protect themselves and make themselves better if they're |
| 1:34.2 | hurting I know his book is almost like a field manual for for conquering this it's not just a |
| 1:41.0 | memoir it's it's tools you can use to help combat PTSD as a police officer and I'm sure I'm sure |
| 1:49.8 | it applies to soldiers as well so I can't wait to get some details on that and and of course |
| 1:55.6 | his his war stories so without further ado let me dial him up |
| 2:09.1 | Steve there Scott Medlin welcome to the podcast my brother I appreciate it thank you so much for |
| 2:14.8 | having me on oh man I'm pumped to have you geez I thought I saw you were you were just on the news |
| 2:20.5 | recently I was on the local news just talking about some unfortunately some concerning statistics |
| 2:26.7 | about mental health and law enforcement but it has to come out it we cannot be silent about this |
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