Jocelyn E. Roland, PhD, ABPP

Dr. Jocelyn E. Roland received her B.A. in Psychology from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1988, and her Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology-Los Angeles in 1992. She has been a licensed psychologist in both Arizona and California since 1994. In June 2011 she was awarded board certification as a Specialist in Police and Public Safety Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology.
In 1993 she began her career as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Behavioral Science Services Section for nearly two years. Here she provided counseling and debriefing, was a member of the Crisis Negotiation Team, and a consultant to the Communications Division. She then moved to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) as a Law Enforcement Psychologist where she remained for three years, and was then promoted to Assistant Director of the Employee Support Services Bureau where she worked for the next six and one-half years. At LASD she worked in close consultation with the Special Enforcement Bureau (SWAT), the Aero Bureau, and was one of the Department’s primary threat managers.
In 2004 Dr. Roland moved to the Central Valley of California, and is the department psychologist for numerous agencies, conducting a multitude of services including confidential counseling as well as critical incident stress debriefings after shootings and other traumatic events to peace officers, dispatchers, firefighters, and other public safety personnel. She also provides consultation to executives and managers, is a member of multiple Crisis Negotiation Teams, and assists in Peer Support/CISM Programs for various agencies. She conducts preemployment psychological screening evaluations for over 70 departments for peace officer, fire, dispatch and other public safety positions. She also performs fitness-for-duty evaluations (FFDE) and threat assessments for both public safety and private industry.
Dr. Roland is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA); APA’s Division 18; the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (ATAP); the California Association of Hostage Negotiators (CAHN); the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), as well as the IACP Police Psychological Services Section (PPSS); the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology (SPCP); and the Stanislaus County Peace Officers Association (SCPOA). She is the Past President of the American Board of Police and Public Safety Psychology, a Past General Chair of the IACP-PPSS, and the Treasurer for the Council of Organizations in Police Psychology.