BACKGROUND Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a major preventable occupational health problem with 250 million people worldwide known to have disabling impairment of moderate to greater severity. The aims of the study are to estimate the prevalence of NIHL in the police force; and study its association with age, sex, duration of service (years), smoking and alcohol habits, use of hearing prot...

Institutions in developing countries, particularly those inherited from the colonial period, are often thought to be subject to strong inertia. This study presents the results of a unique randomized trial testing whether these institutions can be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India collaborated with researchers at US and Ind...

HOSDB’s involvement in footwear mark recovery started following a joint ACPO/PSU workshop held in August 2005 to define a vision for the capture and exploitation of footwear evidence and intelligence by the police service of England and Wales. This was held ahead of legislation changes on 1st January 2006 enabling the police service to take footwear impressions from suspects apprehended by the ...

Police agencies across the globe are increasingly using Online Social Media (OSM) to acquire intelligence and connect with citizens. Developed nations have well thought of strategies to use OSM for policing. However, developing nations like India are exploring and evolving OSM as a policing solution. India, in recent years, experienced many events where rumors and fake content on OSM instigated...

ALBANY, Aug. 19 — Swift Congressional action is needed if New York State police and firemen are to obtain tlie benefits of Social Security coverage, John F. Powers, president of the Civil Service Eployees Associaticn, warned this week. The U. S. Senate Finance Committee has taken an Important step toward accomplishing such coverage by amending a House Social Security bili extending Social Secur...

Acquisition of object clitics is one of the more investigated aspects of the largely understudied variety of Modern Greek spoken in the Republic of Cyprus. Previous studies on the acquisition of clitics in Cypriot Greek usually acknowledge that the linguistic reality in Cyprus involves a state of diglossia, where the sociolinguistically ‘high’ Standard Modern Greek co-exists with the ‘low’ Cypr...

The Home Office Police Research Group (PRG) was formed in 1992 to carry out and manage research relevant to the work of the police service. The terms of reference for the Group include the requirement to identify and disseminate good policing practice. The Crime Detection and Prevention Series follows on from the Crime Prevention Unit papers, a series which has been published by the Home Office...

Rarely does a police officer list providing services to the mentally ill as a reason for becoming a law enforcement professional. However, a review of case records illustrates the frustrating, and often tragic, outcome of police service calls for ‘‘mental disturbance.’’ A closer examination of these cases demonstrates the reality that police are usually the initial contact into both the crimina...