A police officer exposed to psychic battering develops a conditioned emotional response which has a main feature "professional protective emotional suppression" (concept original to this study). Professional protective emotional suppression is a mental process of emotional containment which is necessary to help a person to "hold together" under psychic battering. Alcoholism is a disease of emotional suppression, treated by cathartic release and resolution of feelings, notions certainly opposite to professional protective emotional suppression. This clinical treatise discusses the danger of professionally-conditioned suppression to a police officer recovering from alcoholism, explaining the dangers and difficulties, but more importantly, making specific recommendations for resolution of this dilemma by intelligent employee assistance program and supervisory/managerial assistance efforts.