In this study, we study an at-risk occupation, the police. Forty-five urine samples were obtained from 45 Thai police working close to traffic in an urban area, for analysis of urine phenol levels. The average (mean +/- SD) urine phenol level in these police was 16.94 +/- 11.72 mg/g-Cr. Significantly higher urine phenol levels were found among police who had worked for longer durations (p < 0.05).

Chief Inspector Cottam told us about the scheme; he had been in at its inception nine years ago under Sir Charles Martin. At this time research showed that 40 per cent of all children appearing before the Liverpool Juvenile Courts had previous police records. This fact and the heavy increase in juvenile crime generally, finally decided the police to start an experiment which was to be a system ...

Many police forces operate a policy of high visibility in disordered neighbourhoods with high crime. However, little is known about whether increased police presence influences people's beliefs about a neighbourhood's social environment or their fear of crime. Three experimental studies compared people's perceptions of social capital and fear of crime in disordered and ordered neighbourhoods, e...

Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately funded university police force and crime in a large US city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of the private police force, we see no short-term ...

The object of scientific research is social relations between the police and subjects crime prevention system in counteracting dangerous hobbies young people. subject norms administrative legislation Russian Federation. In course study, scientific-theoretical, scientific-practical, comparative-legal methods, objective methods analysis synthesis, others were used. relevance this study due to org...

In New YorkCity from 1971 to 1975, only 1.6 per cent of all police firearms discharges involved the class of people police have since come to call emo tionally disturbed persons (EDPs). Still, because po lice were comparatively unrestrained in those years, the number of such incidents was quite large: 46, or better than 9 per year.1 In theyears since then, police shootings have declined dramati...

In a crime analytics bureau, a police officer logs in to see what alerts have been posted by social media software designed to spot potential threats within the billions of daily online tweets, pins, likes, and posts. On the street, a police officer uses his body-worn camera to scan a crowd; the feed is sent in real time back to the department where facial recognition and movement analysis soft...

Police and law enforcement providers frequently come in contact with individuals who have psychiatric disorders. Repeated studies suggest that greater understanding of psychiatric conditions by police officers would be beneficial. However, few training approaches have been examined. We present a novel approach to training police officers to interact with those who may have a psychiatric disorde...