Connecticut Alliance To Benefit Law Enforcement

A bridge for collaboration between police and the communities they serve.

CABLE Faculty

Louise C. Pyers, M.S., B.C.E.T.S

Louise Pyers is founder, Statewide CIT Program Coordinator and Executive Director of the CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement (CABLE), Inc. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Community Psychology and Counseling and is Board Certified by The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. She is a Connecticut P.O.S.T. Certified Police Instructor in the areas of Stress Management, Suicide Intervention and Assessment and Citizens With Special Needs.

As a professional counselor and coach, Ms. Pyers specializes in working with police, fire, EMS workers and their families. She is also certified in Critical Incident Stress Management and serves on a local CISM team specializing in services to public safety personnel. She has provided expert guidance and psychological autopsies related to incidents of “suicide by cop” and has also published articles related to police encounters with the mentally ill in the FBI National Academy Magazine and Law and Order Magazine.