A report has revealed that more serving Australian police officers are dying by suicide than they did two decades ago.

Some 103 officers took their own lives between 2000 and 2020 with the rate of suicide more than doubling during that period, according to a WA Police Union report released on Monday.

WA Police Union acting president, Paul Gale, says the intensity of the job has remarkably changed from when he first started the job 35 years ago.

“The crimes they are exposed to are violent and it’s not just violence of crimes in the community, it’s the violence of crimes towards police officers themselves,” Mr Gale told Gary Adshead on 6PR Mornings.

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