Each year, the publication of official monitoring data for the police service in England & Wales provokes a public debate about the extent to which people from black and minority ethnic groups are stropped and searched compared to white people, and whether any disparities are fair (see Appendix). Evidence of disproportionality is important because it informs us about the public’s experience of ...

The penal code of Ghana condemns suicide attempt. The present study sought to explore the views of the police on persons who attempt suicide and the law criminalizing the act. Qualitative in-depth interviews were used to explore the views of 18 officers of the Ghana Police Service. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis technique. Findings showed that the police officers profiled suicide at...

LIKE MANY PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANISATIONS, POLICE SERVICES HAVE HAD to pay increasing attention to strategic planning in recent years. This has been precipitated by community and government calls for improved accountability, and the accelerating pace of reform within police services. In responding to this need, police services are experiencing many of the problems familiar to large organisations wh...

the purpose of this article is to design a model for measuring productivity in the public sector . to this end both effectiveness and efficiency are considered. the measurement of effectiveness focus on four dimention ; service delivering to client, citizen satisfaction, improvement of society?s conditions and undesired outcomes of service delivery . we used delphi methods to define the effecti...

AIMS To investigate the effect of qualifications, experience and service on ill-health retirement decisions made by police force and fire brigade medical advisers. METHODS Doctors advising UK fire and police authorities attending a conference were given 16 case summaries from experienced fire and police advisers and asked to predict the outcome in terms of return to work or ill-health retirem...

THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY VOLUME 33 NUMBER 1 2000 PP. 37–63 The authors would like to thank the Queensland Police Service (Chief Superintendent Doug Smith, South Eastern Region), the Beenleigh Police Division in particular for all their invaluable assistance in this study, the Criminal Justice Commission (particularly Dr David Brereton, Director, Research and Prevent...

The aim of the study is to evaluate, by ambulatory (24 h) blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), whether police officers exposed to urban pollutants and possible psycho-social stressors could be at risk of changes in ambulatory systolic blood pressure (SBP), and ambulatory diastolic blood pressure (DBP) compared to controls. After excluding the principal confounding factors, police officers and cont...

ANALYSIS: Glenn observed that this problem involved not only the subjects that he caught in violation, but also the store clerks who sell the alcohol, the police department, and the residents of the City of Plano. The harm this caused to the residents was demonstrated in police calls for service involving juvenile problems, party disturbances, noise complaints and alcohol-related traffic accide...