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Law officers face much higher risk of heart attacks, strokes

BY LARRY TYE

The Boston Globe

What a softy!!!

Police officers are twice as likely as the rest of us to suffer heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular disease, according to a study published today.

"Part of it is the stress of the profession," said Warren D. Franke, associate professor of health and human performance at lowa State University and lead author of the study in a recent issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

The lowa team zeroed in on 232 retired male highway patrol, narcotics, and other state police officers, all of whom were 55 or older. The rate of cardiovascular disease reported by those officers was compared with the rate among 817 male lowans of the same age, few if any of whom were involved in police work.

The contrast was stark: the rate of heart attacks, strokes, and related conditions was 31.5 percent in the law enforcement group compared with 18.4 percent in the general population. It was even starker when researchers ruled out known risk factors like high cholesterol and smoking, looking solely at the effect of occupation: working as a law enforcement officer meant a 2.34 times greater risk of disease.

Regardless of who's right scientifically, politically the issue has been settled for years in Massachusetts and other states with so-called Heart Laws. Those statutes presume that when law enforcement officer suffer a heart attack, it is job-related and they qualify for job-related disability coverage.

The lowa findings "legitimize what we've assumed for a very long time," said Sergeant Detective Margot Hill of the Boston Police Department. "You'll be riding around for four to five hours and patrolling and everything will be calm, then you'll get called for a shooting. Think of what that does to all your vital signs. It just can't get worse than that."

Chief Tom O'Loughlin of the MBTA police agreed, and said that actuarial charts show that police live about 10 years less, on average, than other public employees.

"People have this sense," he said "that police officers are supposed to have this hard outer shell, to wear superman or superwoman underalls".

"We don't. There is no hard shell, things don't bounce off from us." he said.

While most police believe they are at greater risk of heart disease, they also believe that risk can be lowered. That is why the department in Boston built an exercise center at its new headquarters and has set fitness standards for officers.

That is also why instructors like Jane Sheehan at the Boston Police Academy are incorporating stress management into their training.

"It's kind of an institutional shift in attitude" she said.

Reprinted with permission courtesy of The Boston Globe. Copyright 1998. All rights reserved.

HR 2276 IH

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108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2276

To provide for the establishment of the National Institutes of Health Police, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 22, 2003

Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. WAXMAN, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. NORTON, Mr. WYNN, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. FROST, Mr. KILDEE, and Mr. BISHOP of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To provide for the establishment of the National Institutes of Health Police, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `NIH Security Act'.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH POLICE.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT- The Director of the National Institutes of Health (in this section referred to as the 'Director of NIH') shall establish a permanent police force, to be known as the National Institutes of Health Police (in this section referred to as the 'NIH Police'), for the purpose of performing law enforcement, security, and investigative functions for property under the jurisdiction, custody, and control of or occupied by the National Institutes of Health.

(b) APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS

(1) IN GENERAL- The Director of NIH shall appoint a Chief, a Deputy Chief, and such other officers as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the NIH Police.

(2) OFFICERS ABOVE MAXIMUM AGE- The Director of NIH may appoint officers of the NIH Police without regard to standard maximum limits of age prescribed under section 3307 of title 5, United States Code. Officers appointed under this paragraph-

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(A) may include the Chief and Deputy Chief of the NIH Police, shall have the same authorities and powers as other officers of the NIH Police, and shall receive the same pay and benefits as other officers of the NIH Police; and

(B) shall not be treated as law enforcement officers for purposes of retirement
benefits.

(c) POWERS- Each officer of the NIH Police may-

(1) carry firearms, serve warrants and subpoenas issued under the authority of the United States, and make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in the officer's presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such a felony,

(2) conduct investigations within the United States and its territories for offenses that have been or may be committed on property described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (d); and

(3) protect in any area of the United States or its territories the Director of NIH and other officials, as authorized by the Director of NIH.

(d) JURISDICTION- Officers of the NIH Police may exercise their powers-

(1) on all properties under the custody and control of the National Institutes of Health;

(2) on other properties occupied by the National Institutes of Health, as determined by the Director of NIH; and

(3) as authorized under paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (c).

(e) PAY, BENEFITS, RETIREMENT

(1) IN GENERAL- Subject to subsection (b)(2)(B) and paragraph (2)(A) of this subsection, all officers of the NIH Police appointed under subsection (b) are law enforcement officers as that term is used in title 5, United States Code, without regard to any eligibility requirements prescribed by law, and are eligible for all pay and benefits prescribed by law for such law enforcement officers.

(2) PAY; RANKS

(A) PAY- The officers of the NIH Police shall receive the same pay and benefits, as determined by the Director of NIH, as officers who hold comparable positions in the United States Park Police. For purposes of this subparagraph, the Chief of the NIH Police is deemed comparable to the Assistant Chief in the United States Park Police, and the Deputy Chief of the NIH Police is deemed comparable to the Deputy Chief in the United States Park Police.

(B) RANK- The Chief and Deputy Chief of the NIH Police shall have ranks not lower

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than a colonel and a lieutenant colonel, respectively. Other ranks and equivalences shall be determined by the Director of NIH or the Director's designee.

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