Which of the following is a category of police stressors?

• A. The weather
• B. The police organization
• C. Interagency cooperation
• D. Personal life and family

Answer: (B)

The concept tested is how police stressors are grouped by where they originate. Organizational stressors come from within the agency itself—things like leadership, management practices, workload, resource constraints, and role expectations. This category captures stress that stems from the police organization’s structure and policies, making it the best fit for a category of police stressors. Weather is an environmental condition, not a category of internal stress sources. Interagency cooperation involves working with other agencies and is typically seen as an external or external-interaction stressor. Personal life and family are stressors outside the job, related to the officer’s private life. So, the internal police organization represents the appropriate category.