Health and Wellness Resources Available to Law Enforcement, 2022

• NCJ Number: 310553
• Author(s): Sean E. Goodison, PhD, BJS Statistician
• Date Published: January 2026
• Publication Type: Publication

Description

The report assesses which health and wellness resources are available to law enforcement agencies and which are most offered, depending on the size of the agency. Findings are from BJS’s 2022 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Post-Academy Training and Officer Wellness (PATOW) supplemental survey. Administered for the first time in 2023, this survey collected data from a nationally representative sample of general-purpose state and local law enforcement agencies.

Highlights

In 2022:

• Sixty percent of all general-purpose law enforcement agencies offered at least one formal wellness program, with 93% of agencies employing 100 or more full-time equivalent (FTE) sworn personnel offering at least one program compared to 57% of agencies employing fewer than 100 FTE sworn personnel.
• Seventy-six percent of FTE sworn personnel were employed by agencies offering peer support programs and 75% worked for an agency offering psychological and mental health care treatment programs.
• Over 90% of agencies offered confidential alcohol and chemical dependency treatment programs (94%) and psychological and mental health care treatment programs (93%).
• Eighty-two percent of general-purpose agencies had no full-time personnel assigned to a formal wellness program.