Report on Psychiatric Disorders in the National Police of Peru.
Report of the Mental Health Service of the Police Hospital (1993-1997) documenting the increase in psychiatric disorders, alcoholism and drug dependency in members of the PNP due to the stress of the counter-subversive struggle. The numbers of these problems practically doubled during the period studied.
The Mental Health Service of the Police Hospital prepared a report on the incidence of psychiatric disorders in the Luis N. Saenz Central Hospital of the National Police of Peru, in relation to social violence during the period 1993-1997. The second conclusion of the report points to a significant increase in cases of alcoholism and drug dependency, which almost doubled during this period. The report explains that members of the PNP, in their fight against subversion and the profound stress to which they were subjected in these circumstances, sought in the consumption of these substances a palliative for their ills, which predisposed them to dependency. This study documents the psychological impact that the internal armed conflict had on police officers.