The results of a study of professionally important qualities for police officers are stated. Based on these results the algorithm for forming of an individual psychological profile of police officers is created. The new system of factors, reflecting professionally important individual psychological characteristics of police officers, are marked out.

More police departments than ever before are utilizing information technology for solving and combating crime. However, most of these uses are for operational or tactical purposes. This paper presents an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software, ‘Crime X-Windows Similarity (CXS)’ that helps police departments in having a strategic viewpoint toward decision-making. CXS utilizes socioeconomic, crime...

Objective: To provide the first nationally representative data on service contact, police or advocate best practices, and helpseeking obstacles for family violence that involved exposure to children. Method: A nationally representative sample of 517 family violence incidents drawn from the 4,503 respondents to the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence II. Results: A range of 10 bes...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of city and town centre closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance on violence in terms of accident and emergency (A&E) department and police assault data. METHODS A&E department and local police assault data in three centres in Wales (Cardiff, Swansea, and Rhyl) two years before and two years after the installation of CCTV were studied. British Crime Surve...

Introduction Reduced sleep to increase work hours is common among police officers, when this situation is combined with Obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), health consequences are greater, therefore we believe there is a need of research for these alterations. The aim of this study was to measure the changes in sleep architecture (SA) in police officers who currently have Night s...

Motivated by recent findings that human mobility is proxy for crime behavior in big cities and that there is a superlinear relationship between the people’s movement and crime, this article aims to evaluate the impact of how these findings influence police allocation. More precisely, we shed light on the differences between an allocation strategy, in which the resources are distributed by clust...

police registries were extremely rare. Fragmentation of this kind has seriously hindered cooperation in the recent past. The solution to regional fragmentation the Dutch police has been looking for can be considered as “virtual integration”. For more than a decade now, Dutch police management has tried to establish a joint communications system, and national criminal investigation registries. L...

This article utilizes data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate the productivity of the English and Welsh police forces and to determine whether there are categorical scale effects in policing using multiple discriminant analysis (MDA). The article demonstrates that by using DEA efficiency results it is possible to make inferences about the optimal size and structure of the English and Welsh ...

Resumen Background: Police work is currently one of the most stressful occupations. High levels of stress can culminate in suffering the burnout syndrome. This syndrome is characterised by emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and low personal accomplishment. Police offi cers, despite being a risk group, have been investigated less than other professional groups. The objectives of the current...

With the movement of persons with mental illness out of hospitals and into the community, the frequency of contact between police officers and such persons, in crisis or otherwise, has increased significantly. How police respond in these situations has important consequences for the subject, police officers, and the community. Officers (n = 554) from police departments in a major metropolitan a...