OBJECTIVE A significant portion of police work involves contact with persons who have mental illness. This study examined how knowledge that a person has a mental illness influences police officers' perceptions, attitudes, and responses. METHODS A total of 382 police officers who were taking a variety of in-service training courses were randomly assigned one of eight hypothetical vignettes de...

We provide an overview of previous research conducted by our group on risk and resilience factors for PTSD symptoms in police and other first responders. Based on our work, the findings of other investigators on individual differences in risk for PTSD, and drawing on preclinical studies fear conditioning and extinction, we propose a conceptual model for the development of PTSD symptoms emphasiz...

Drones are increasingly being used in various areas of society, including the police. The drone and its sensors make it possible to collect live images people, places situations that otherwise unavailable or hard reach. Adding already complex assemblage operative policing, what happens policing when drones introduced? provide new forms information police, connecting were previously disconnected...

OBJECTIVES Government reports on violence in developing countries are almost universally based upon police data, which are typically incomplete and unreliable. Violence in Karachi was evaluated using ambulance service, not police, records. SETTING Karachi, Pakistan. METHODOLOGY The study was based on a case series of persons suffering from intentional injuries and transported by Edhi, the l...

OBJECTIVES We conducted the present study to assess the prevalence of hypertension, prehypertension, normotension and the associated factors along with awareness, treatment and control of hypertension among police personnel in Bankura, West Bengal, India. METHODS We collected information on individual, lifestyle, service-related and anthropometric characteristics of 1817 police personnel. We ...

In 2020, the Hungarian Police started replacing its obsolete service handguns. Taking opportunity, article gives an overview of major former handguns Police, presenting their advantages and disadvantages, searching for reasons partial failure. The approach is less technical; in addition to outlining political economic background, end-user experience also presented. As a conclusion, welcomes mod...

Covering a road network within a pre-specified time frame is the primary objective of any emergency service, including ambulances, firefighters and police. This research investigates the traffic police routine patrol vehicle assignment problem on an interurban road network. The difference between this and other emergency services is the need to consider additional requirements beyond the calls ...

A survey has been carried out in Peshawar to study the prevalence of hypertension in the juvenile and active in-service population. The subgroups of the population surveyed included 1,565 school students, 1,681 college students, 1,029 textile factory workers, 1,127 police personnel, 1,006 civil servants, 398 female teachers and 206 commandos. The active in-service persons were predominantly you...