BACKGROUND Studies on occupational stress have shown that police officers are exposed to stressful events more often than other workers and this can result in impaired psychosocial well-being and physical health. AIMS To measure the level of stress experienced, the consequences in terms of anxiety and the coping strategies adopted in a sample of police officers working in a large city in nort...

One of the first priorities of a police department is to handle 911 calls in a timely, efficient, and effective fashion. The department had been plagued with complaints of citizen dissatisfaction in the timeliness of answering emergency calls through the 911 telephone system, and a comprehensive review was initiated by Deputy Superintendent Duane D. Johnson. Daily statistical reports indicated ...

probably reflects increases in urban violence and the number of drug abusers. Nevertheless, few officers had markers of hepatitis, which suggests that unreported exposure is uncommon. A central service for the Metropolitan Police Force seems to work well; police officers and surgeons generally know the correct course of action after exposure, and prophylaxis can be given when it is most likely ...

In various settings, drug market policing strategies have been found to have unintended negative effects on health service use among injection drug users (IDU). This has prompted calls for more effective coordination of policing and public health efforts. In Vancouver, Canada, a supervised injection facility (SIF) was established in 2003. We sought to determine if local police impacted utilizat...

BIRMINGHAM, England An angry crowd attacked Britain’s law enforcement minister yesterday when he visited the scene of over­ night rioting and arson that left two people dead in the country’s second largest city. The violence started Monday night in a confrontation between blacks and a policeman and ended with 50 shops gutted by fire. It was the worst rioting to hit Britain since 1981, when raci...

The documentary research study examined the contribution of leadership styles on training in police service Sharjah United Arab Emirates (UAE) . employed an explanatory and descriptive design with qualitative paradigm. A sample 104 documents were selected from 10000 list documentation purposively. Data was garnered using reviews scrutinised content analysis which used for summarising informatio...