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...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of organizational changes in the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) Investigations Branch and how the Branch has adapted to the paradigm of intelligence-led policing. The paper also reports on interviews conducted to assess the impact on key staff affected by the change, through the medium of a drug-gang investigation, Operation Nine Connect. Design/...

With a widespread growth in the potential applications of Wireless Sensor Networks, the need for reliable security mechanisms for them has increased manifold. This paper proposes a scheme, Privacy for Police Patrols (PPP), to provide secure data aggregation that relies on multilevel routing. Privacy factors have been identified and implemented. Aggregates are prepared and the summary of informa...

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,...

INTRODUCTION Our study examines the frequency of joint investigations by child protection workers and the police in sexual abuse investigations compared to other maltreatment types and the association of child-, caregiver-, maltreatment- and investigation-related characteristics in joint investigations, focussing specifically on investigations involving sexual abuse. METHODS We analyzed data ...

The aim of this investigation was to design and develop nanoemulsions (NEs) as novel ophthalmic delivery systems for brinzolamide (BZD). Phase behavior of quaternary systems composed of triacetin and CapryolTM 90 (selected oils, screened through the solubility studies), various surfactants (namely, Cremophor RH 40, Brij 35, Labrasol and tyloxapol), Transcutol P (as co-surfactant) an...

This paper reports a preliminary study addressing two challenges in measuring the effectiveness of information extraction (IE) technology: • Developing a methodology for extrinsic evaluation of IE; and, • Estimating the impact of improving IE technology on the ability to perform an application task. The methodology described can be employed for further controlled experiments regarding informati...