Public mental health systems have been called on to better meet the needs of consumers presenting to health services with the police, yet few studies have examined police presentations among mental health consumers in large public mental health systems. This study was designed to determine the frequency profile and characteristics of consumers of mental health services brought in by police to a...

The District also could adopt the idea of police mini-stations and youth safe havens, which share the same space and have worked well in places as diverse as Columbia, S.C., New Hampshire and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Police in these ministations become an integral part of the inner-city community and function as mentors for young people as well as law officers. The safe havens, run by civilian no...

To describe the current situation of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Sri Lanka, and to propose possible interventions to prevent IPV, we performed a literature survey for articles and reports on IPV in Sri Lanka. Our results suggested that prevalence of IPV is high (40%) in Sri Lanka. Most of the IPV studies were conducted in health care institutions and missed IPV victims who had not attend...

A line-of-duty death (LODD) strikingly brings home the risk and vulnerability of all law enforcement officers and affects the officer's peers, the entire department, the wider police community, and the officer's family. This article will place LODD in the context of general bereavement psychology, as well as describe some of its unique features. A variety of supportive and psychotherapeutic mea...

This study aims to determine the legal regulation of criminal acts with violence in Indonesian system, obstacles and efforts Medan Labuhan Sector Police eradicating crime theft violence. The research method used is normative juridical a qualitative approach. results found that regulated Article 365 Criminal Code, included category traditional crimes are disturbing community. There two obstacles...

Community and minority group relations is currently one of the central issues in Health Services Organization. Dick Weinerman came to grips with aspects of this problem area throughout his career. He advocated a significant role for unionized plantation workers in the administration of a proposed health services plan for Hawaii in 1952. (25)t In 1960, he discussed and strongly encouraged Labor'...