by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Resilience, Suicide Awareness
I wanted to die. In 2011 I was charged with perjury. With a job I loved threatened and looking at possible jail time, I didn’t want to be here anymore. I sat at the edge of the bed with a handful of pills …. Fitness saved me. On Halloween 2017, I sat in a...
by admin | Jul 2, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Personal Development
“Kwesi, that judge was racist!” When I was convicted of perjury in 2015, many people, both inside and outside of policing, both white and black, said that to me. Why? Maybe people from the outside looking in saw something that gave them that impression. Maybe some...
by admin | Jun 20, 2020 | Mental Health, Personal Development, Resilience
It seems redundant to talk about police officers, first responders and resilience. Resilience is defined as the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. Difficulty is inherent to the career of a first responder. From long shifts, to dealing with cantankerous...
by admin | Jun 7, 2020 | Mental Health, Resilience, Suicide Awareness
It may have cost me my freedom. In the beginning of March 2009, I took the stand in a public inquiry. I was a police officer. I was explaining the actions I took on a tragic night in 2007. My lawyer “prepared” me. He asked me questions in a very adversarial tone to...
by admin | May 27, 2020 | Mental Health, Personal Development, Resilience
Words are like water: they can save lives, or take them. Those lines are from my book RISE (http://bit.ly/riseresiliencebook). When people ask me “How does a police officer get into public speaking?”, I’ve given myriad responses. But the truth is words are as...
