Abstract
Police work and how it affects the family is an extremely complex subject. The role of police women is ambiguous and requires one to use discretion to perform their duties. Occupational stress among police women is often viewed as an unlucky, but expected part of police work. A variety of workplace problems, such as racial and gender bias and lack of influence over work activities, as influences on police stress. One of the most basic results of stress, which a police women incurs from the job, is being Overprotective of their family, is a behaviour that is sometimes hard for the police women to detect. Stress can be thought of as a state of extreme difficulty, pressure or strain. To be more precise, stress can be a mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and can be capable of affecting physical health.
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