Arizona DPS has built a technology ecosystem—brain-scan check-ins, body-camera behavioral analytics, and burnout flagging—that leads to well checks and sabbaticals protecting officer mental health and performance.
Colonel Glover describes a suite of tools—Vitanya/Heal the Heroes check-ins and Trulio body-cam analytics—used to monitor trooper wellbeing and trigger interventions like sabbaticals. ✦ AI generated
Colonel Glover · a16z Podcast · 2026-05-18 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 3:23
“Colonel Glover, talk about some of the other technologies and capabilities that you've been able to deploy that really changes the equation for law enforcement either helping the officers or helping the general public or in most cases both.”
we utilize Vitanya uh Heal the Heroes. It's basically, you know, brain scan sort of start off the day and everything to figure out exactly how are you doing, a temperature check... We have analytics, it's Trulio that's running behind the body worn camera just to see for the behavior and interaction.
verbatim transcript · starts at 3:23
3:23done. Um One of it One of it is One of the piece of it is is being able to make sure that we're giving the officers what they need to do to be successful, but it's also about their own mental health and well-being. So, they have um we utilize Vitanya uh Heal the Heroes. It's uh basically, you know, brain scan sort of start off the day and everything to
3:42figure out exactly, you know, how are you doing, you know, temperature check. Um then they go out they can do their shift on the by behind the body worn camera. We have analytics. It's uh Trulio that's running behind the um the body worn camera just to see for the behavior and interaction. Part of that was, you know, looking at, you know, you can do a scorecard for how
4:02the trooper is interacting with the public, but it also gets a little bit of an of of information on how the public is interacting with that trooper uh to see if they're combative or not. And then it can it flag the situation as well for the supervisor. Uh outside of that, you have what will essentially is um it it it helps with them being able to have that
4:24that uh feeling of, you know, I have a little bit of a layer of protection um because with this it's going to flag for the burnout as well. Uh and that was one of the things at the associations in speaking with them about this is was that from the advent of the our body worn camera and being able to take that technology, run those analytics behind it, be able to check
4:43for those that had burnout um where if we need to pull them from the field, if we need to do something a little bit different, um we started instituting well checks and uh sabbaticals for those that are at the 15 and 25-year mark to be able to help help optimize their performance so that way when they go out in the field, they feel good about what they're doing and they have job
5:04satisfaction. Absolutely. It's been amazing uh to see that the public sentiment shift over things like body cams. You know, at first people were very against body cams. Uh even some of the officer unions were against body cams and they realized, "Wait a minute. You see all the dumb things that uh that the criminals do." Uh so that's pretty good. It it protects our officers. Um but it