Mental Health, COVID-19, public health emergency) 

Public health emergencies pose special challenges for law enforcement, whether the threat is manmade (terrorist attacks) or naturally occurring (e.g., flu pandemics). Policing strategies will vary depending on the cause and level of the threat, as will the potential risk to the responding officers. In public health emergency, law enforcement will need to quickly coordinate its response with public health and medical officials, many of whom they may not have worked with previously. Depending on the threat, law enforcement’s role may include enforcing public health orders (e.g., quarantines or travel restrictions), securing the perimeter of contaminated areas, securing healthcare facilities, controlling crowds, investigating scenes of suspected biological terrorism, and protecting national stockpiles of vaccines or other medicines. In a large-scale incident, such as a pandemic, law enforcement resources will quickly become overwhelmed, and law enforcement officials will have to balance their resources and efforts between these new responsibilities and everyday service demands. The present investigation aims to describe the status of mental health of police officers Region IV- A, the precautionary measures they employ to address COVID- 19 infection, their perceived organizational support and its relationships to job satisfaction. This study therefore is conceived with the ultimate goal of describing the health concerns of the police officers and measures implemented to ensure that the police officers are protected from COVID- 19 related illness in relation to their job satisfaction. The study shall involve police officers assigned in PNP Regional Office IV- A. The study shall be conducted in the months of October and November; the collection of the date shall be done online using adaptive research questionnaires. Policy recommendations shall be presented at the end of the study.