Mental health wasn’t something the force even acknowledged back then, let alone prioritized. Members who’d had to deal with horrific scenes and frightening situations worked through what many of them would later come to suspect was PTSD over pints in the pub, and even then . . . As one member put it, the prevailing mood at the time was not one of support, but one-upmanship. “You think that’s bad? Wait until I tell you what I saw today!”
