Research finds police-led crime control interventions focusing on places and involving partnerships tend to yield positive crime control outcomes. Some scholars argue that these positive outcomes are achieved when police use place-based, partnership-oriented interventions to facilitate and encourage collective efficacy (CE). The corollary being that these CE-enhancing efforts lead to less crime...

Increasingly, information technology has pervaded the provision of services by police agencies in the United States. Recent research (Jones & de Guzman, 2010) has illustrated that although most police organizations maintain a web presence, these departments showed significant variations in the quality of their websites and the services they offer through the Internet. Using a sample of 162 larg...

Police are commonly encountered in the emergency department (ED). They support EMS, transport patients, are a source of collateral information for health care professionals, and help provide a safe environment for hospital staff. However, there is a potential for conflict due to the nature of police investigation and the emergency physician’s duty to protect patients’ confidentiality and person...

Police and law enforcement providers frequently come into contact with individuals who have psychiatric disorders, sometimes with tragic results. Repeated studies suggest that greater understanding of psychiatric conditions by police officers would be beneficial. Here we present a novel approach to training police officers to improve their interactions with those who might have a mental illness...

Recently the European Union has approved the EU Water Framework Directive (EU-WFD). This directive claims that by the end of 2015 a “good status of surface water“ and a “good status of groundwater” should be achieved (EU, 2000). To that end, the EU-WFD provides several guidelines for monitoring the water bodies, leaving the practical implementation to the local governments. Each region has to d...

Background Police are a major source of referral to psychiatric services but the appropriateness of these referrals has been questioned. Few studies have systematically addressed police referrals to psychiatric services. This study investigated the epidemiology of coercive treatment in psychiatry by comparing the characteristics of police referrals to patients who were referred from other sources.

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether traffic police officers exposed to chemical, physical and psycho-social stressors, are at risk for alterations in plasma levels of prolactin (PRL) compared to a control group. Plasma PRL levels were evaluated in 92 male and 51 female, non-smoker, traffic police officers exposed to urban stressors and in 92 male and 51 female controls, matched by sex...

Two of the main challenges in the literature on crime are to isolate significant causal effects of police on the amount of crime, and to distinguish between deterrence and incapacitation. Following a terrorist attack on the main Jewish center in July 1994, all Jewish and Muslim institutions in the city of Buenos Aires (including schools, synagogues, mosques and clubs) were given 24-hour police ...

OBJECTIVE To compare death rates from road traffic injuries in China in 2002-2007 when derived from police-reported data versus death registration data. METHODS In China, police-recorded data are obtained from police records by means of a standardized, closed-ended data collection form; these data are published in the China statistical yearbook of communication and transportation. Official de...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to determine whether clustering of suicide occurred in prisoners and detainees in police cells and to describe the characteristics of any clusters identified. DESIGN Mortality from suicide was examined for evidence of clusters. SETTING Prisons (1971-1988) and police cells (1980-September 1991) in New Zealand. SUBJECTS 82 male suicides. MAIN RESULTS There were...