There have been several suicides in the US in late 2023 and in the first several weeks of 2024 involving deputy sheriffs and, in one case, a county sheriff. There is a large a growing literature on police officer suicide, which may only be partly generalizable to deputy sheriffs despite some overlap in role and duties. Deputy sheriffs are sometimes included if studies of "law enforcement professionals" but not broken out in findings.
Since posting this question I have found only one recent report that has data on US deputy sheriff suicides. In March 2024, First H.E.L.P., which has tracked law enforcement suicides since 2016, and the CNA Corporation, a research organization, issued a report on suicides among public safety personnel in the years 2016-2022. [6] It tallies 1287 suicides in that period across a range of law enforcement professions. Thirty-three percent of the cases (424 deaths) were associated with sheriffs’ offices. Thirteen percent (167) of the suicides involved sheriffs’ staff with correctional roles at county prisons; twenty percent (257) were among deputies with other duties. See 2 https://www.cna.org/reports/2024/03/Law-Enforcement-Deaths-By-Suicide.pdf.
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