BACKGROUND Nation-wide road casualty figures usually come from police data. In France, as in many developed countries, the reporting of fatalities is almost complete but the reporting of non-fatal casualties is rather low. It is moreover strongly biased. Valid estimates are needed. METHODS Using the capture-recapture method on police data and on a road trauma registry covering a large county ...

This paper is a scoping review of the available evidence regarding health care issues in police custody. It describes the types and prevalence of health disorders encountered in custody and provides an overview of current practice and recent innovations in police custody health care. In contrast to the health of prisoners, the health of police custody detainees has, until recently, received lit...

Recent police corruption cases in several cities, including New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, highlight the association of police corruption with illegal drug activities. You asked us to study the impact of drug trafficking on the corruption of police in large cities that have a high incidence of drug trafficking and drug abuse. As agreed with your office, in conducting our preliminary work,...

IT is difficult to imagine a case more deserving of detailed historical analysis than that of John Roberton (1776-1840), a surgeon who practised as a specialist in the treatment of venereal disease in two European capitals' yet is linked to a subject, medical police, which, on close examination, occupied a fraction of his known professional life. Despite his widely published popular works on ve...

BACKGROUND Law enforcement depends on cooperation from the public and crime victims to protect citizens and maintain public safety; however, many crimes are not reported to police because of fear of repercussions or because the crime is considered trivial. It is unclear how police reporting affects the incidence of future victimization. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between reporting ...

Over the past two decades, police departments around the globe have been involved in a slow, but steady transition from call-based policing to community-oriented policing. The former approach, while effective at closing cases once a crime has occurred, does little to develop crime prevention partnerships between officers on the beat and the citizens of local communities. Community-oriented poli...

Much of what passes for knowledge about police interviewing practices is no more than assumption and conjecture. Such knowledge probably owes more to television, films, or novels than to any informed understanding of what happens in police interview rooms. Because of the secrecy that has always surrounded police-suspect interviews and the traditional reluctance of police officers to allow outsi...

Women’s police stations that are designed to receive victims of gender-based violence first emerged in Latin America the 1980s. In Argentina, these have unique aspects like multidisciplinary staffing could guide responses elsewhere. Police domestic and family (DFV) Australia continually failed require much improvement. Responses combining other services not completely alien Australia, too dissi...