RCMP officer speaks out about PTSD – Prince George Citizen
February 8, 2017
A shaken baby. The body of a sex trade worker. Two young people brutally murdered as part of a local drug war.
It took the accumulation of these and other events for one local police officer to finally accept his diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and to speak publicly about his condition.
Staff Sgt. Kent MacNeill is currently the general investigations section commander of the Prince George RCMP.
MacNeill knows it was being exposed to trauma and violence over a long period that led to his PTSD.
“I was new to the major crime unit and we had investigated a pretty horrific file where a father violently shook one of his two twins to where, to this day she has no quality of life.”
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