Coping with the pressures of work, family and general life is not always easy, particularly in an environment like policing that presents a wide variety of workplace challenges. South Australia Police is committed to the well-being of staff and provides counselling, personal support, education and rehabilitation services for all employees.

Counselling and welfare services

These services provide help with:

• workplace concerns
• relationships
• financial problems
• bereavement
• health
• lifestyle
• family issues
• trauma
• drug and alcohol dependency.

They also provide support for police employees exposed to life-threatening and/or macabre situations or other traumatic incidents.

Services are also available to family members and retired members..

Chaplaincy

A non-denominational chaplaincy service looks after the spiritual welfare of employees, retired employees and their immediate families.

Equity and Diversity Branch

South Australia Police supports an inclusive work environment that values and utilises the benefits that diversity brings to the workplace and to the services we deliver.

We encourage people from all backgrounds, cultures and ages to consider a career in policing in order that police members reflect the community that we serve.

South Australia Police has five Focus Groups to support employees and to raise awareness of particular employee needs.

• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Transexual, Intersex and Queer (GLBTIQ) Focus Group
• Women's Focus Group
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) Focus Group
• Disability Focus Group
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Focus Group

If you would like to meet with a member from one of the Focus Groups to discuss a career in policing, please contact the Equity and Diversity Branch on (08) 8204 2940 and we will arrange for a member to contact you.

Mentors

Field tutors support cadets in their work-based training on police patrols and in police stations. Probationary constables have the support of a field tutor partner in their first six months after graduation and can also seek advice from Probationary Constable Mentors in Local Service Areas.