“…Police organizations, particularly border police, are public service entities rated as highly stressful with a high level of daily ( Siu et al, 2015 ; Wolf, 2017 ; Demou et al, 2020 ; Lentz et al, 2020 ) and uncontrollable risk ( Cartwright and Roach, 2021 ; Chitra and Karunanidhi, 2021 ; Jackman et al, 2020 ; Papazoglou et al, 2020b ), which face numerous situations, such as humanitarian crises at borders, that have the capacity to generate conflict and role ambiguity for their members ( Antón, 2009 ; Acquadro Maran et al, 2020 ; Queirós et al, 2020 ). In these organizations, high cooperation is required ( Rexeis, 2017 ), there is a strong hierarchy, and often an authoritarian leadership style ( Piotrowski et al, 2021 ).…”