A Ministry Of Care In Times Of Crisis

 Police Shomreem Ministries

Law enforcement chaplains general duties: 

• Pray for and with those in need.  Prayer works.  Studies have illustrated that those people who pray and have people pray for them survive better than those who do not.

• Pray for and with those in need.  Prayer works.  Studies have illustrated that those people who pray and have people pray for them survive better than those who do not.

• Build a bond of trust and friendship with the officers in the police department 

• Counsel or minister to law enforcement officers who have experienced or witnessed traumatic incidents or experienced violent behavior in others 

• Counsel or minister to other members of a department who have been effected by a traumatic incident

• Counsel or minister to the families of law enforcement officers and other department personnel 

• Visit sick or injured officers and departmental personnel in homes and hospitals 

• Make death notifications and minister to the immediate spiritual needs of the persons notified

• Assist the families of those who have died to make funeral arrangements and help contact other friends and family members

• Provide assistance to victims, pooling resources and ministering to the stress of the incident

• Teach officers in areas such as Stress Management, Ethics, Family Life, and Pre-retirement by individual counseling, classes and providing training courses 

• Serve as part of a department's Crisis Response Team and Critical Incident Debriefing Team

• Assist at suicide incidents by ministering to the people who are affected by the incident

• Serve as liaison with other clergy in the community.  The best way to help is to connect the victim to a clergy that they trust and know.

• Provide for the spiritual needs of prisoners.  Sometimes an individual who has been arrested, needs someone to talk with about their feelings of guilt and failure.

• Furnish sound Biblical responses to religious questions. 

• Offer prayers at special occasions such as police recruit graduations, awards ceremonies, and dedication of buildings

• Serve on review boards, award boards, and other committees 

• Pool resources to help with transients and the homeless

• Minister to children, young adults, and adults of families in need of spiritual development, social development, and crisis intervention

• Officiate, preach and teach at religious services

Blessed are  the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are  those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.  Blessed are  the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.  Blessed are  the pure in heart, for they shall see G-d.  Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of G-d.  Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.   [Matthew 5:5-10    NASU]

The above information is common to the chaplaincy profession and some of the above information is from ministry publications and training material with a common goal.  The information on this page is available to those who wish to serve the ones who serve and protect us.

This ministry does not directly work under nor is it directly associated  with any of the local, state or national Shomrim Society lodges.  We do however strongly support these associations of Jewish police officers.