[sho_hn]

I'm impressed by the people doing this job. How do you turn off at the end of the shift and go home to sleep, when you know an hour more of work could make a more immediate difference? How does work/life balance work in this profession?

[delaminator]

Micki Pistorius (yes, Oscar Pistorius' aunt) talks about this in her auto-biography - Catch Me a Killer (2000)

[also made as a TV series of the same name in 2024]

To paraphrase "How can I sleep when I am the key to finding these murderers."

She was involved in more than thirty serial killer cases while at South African Police Service (SAPS) working as a Criminal Profiler.

It took a great toll on her life but she was ultimately able to overcome the stress of it.