Developing Britain's police surgeon service

Doctors and torture: the police surgeon.

Much has been written by many distinguished persons about the philosophical, religious and ethical considerations of doctors and their involvement with torture. What follows will not have the erudition or authority of the likes of St Augustine, Mahatma Gandi, Schopenhauer or Thomas Paine. It represents the views of a very ordinary person; a presumption defended by the submission that many very ...

Developing a Serious Game for Police Training

AbstrAct The design of serious games based on sound learning and instructional principles is important to ensure learning is integrated in the 'game-play'. However, the process of achieving this is not yet fully understood , and research is hampered by the lack of practical demonstrations of how effective instructional design is when used alongside game design. This chapter provides an example ...

Help-seeking in the Norwegian Police Service.

A traditional view is that police officers possess negative attitudes toward seeking professional help. However, few empirical studies have investigated help-seeking behaviour in police services. This study aimed to investigate help-seeking behaviour, gender differences, and the relationship to self-reported physical and mental health problems in the Norwegian police service. Comparisons were m...

Police Accountability and Early Warning Systems: Developing Policies and Programs

Developing an online cooperative police patrol routing strategy

Article history: Received 21 December 2015 Received in revised form 27 October 2016 Accepted 28 October 2016 Available online xxxx A cooperative routing strategy for daily operations is necessary to maintain the effects of hotspot policing and to reduce crime and disorder. Existing robot patrol routing strategies are not suitable, as they omit the peculiarities and challenges of daily police pa...