A Comparison of Suicides in Public Safety Personnel With Suicides in the General Population in Ontario, 2014 to 2018

An earlier version of this paper was presented as a poster at the 19th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2022. The authors thank all of the Regional Supervising Coroners of Ontario and the entire staff at the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario, in particular Andrew Stephen, without whom this research would not have been possible. Parts of this manuscript are based on data and/or information compiled and provided by the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario (OCC). However, the analyses, conclusions, opinions, and statements in the manuscript are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the OCC or the Solicitor General of Ontario.

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

Research ethics approval was provided by through Clinical Trials Ontario (CTO), with Ottawa Health Sciences Network Research Ethics Board (OHSN-REB) as the Board of Record (CTO ID: 2085; OHSN-REB Protocol ID: 20190129-01T).

Simon Hatcher, conceptualization, formal analysis, funding acquisition, methodology, project administration, resources, supervision, validation, visualization, writing- original draft, writing – review & editing; Mark Sinyor, conceptualization, data curation, funding acquisition, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, supervision, writing – review & editing; Nicole E. Edgar, conceptualization, data curation, methodology, project administration, supervision, validation, writing – review & editing; Ayal Schaffer, conceptualization, data curation, funding acquisition, methodology, validation, visualization, writing – review & editing; Sarah E. MacLean, conceptualization, funding acquisition, methodology, writing – review & editing; R. Nicholas Carleton, conceptualization, funding acquisition, writing – review & editing; Ian Colman, conceptualization, funding acquisition, writing – review & editing; Navitha Jayakumar, investigation; Brooklyn Ward, investigation; Rabia Zaheer, investigation. All authors approved the final version of the article.

The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to ethical restrictions.