Attrition of Police Officers With Immigrant Background

Mobile Applications for Police Officers

This paper focuses on the design parameters on the part of the stakeholders and users in the design of mobile applications for police officers. Starting from an analysis of the functional requirements of stakeholders and relevant context parameters for police officers, we find design issues that are relevant to the development of context-aware mobile applications for police officers. We collect...

Stalking Victimization Among Police Officers

The purpose of this study was to assess nonprofessional and professional related stalking victimization in a selective sample of 542 Swiss police officers. The stalking lifetime prevalence rate was 5.2% (N 28). Four percent (n 22, 4.1%) were stalked by nonprofessionally related stalkers, and 1.1% (n 6) of the police officers were stalked for professional reasons. Lifetime stalking victimization...

Correlates with Use of Force by Police Officers in America

Commentary: The challenge of training police officers.

Vermette et al. offer significant observations about the training of police officers working with individuals who have a mental illness. The need to have effective training that meets the expectations of line officers as well as supervisors and police chiefs is readily apparent. Law enforcement officers are routinely the first responders in situations involving mentally ill persons in crisis. T...

[Factors associated with the lifestyle of military police officers].

The scope of this investigation was to analyze the association between lifestyle and socio-demographic and occupational characteristics among military police officers (MPs). This involved a cross-sectional epidemiological study. The sample consisted of 288 MPs within the Police Force of Recife, Pernambuco. The data were collected by means of a semi-structured questionnaire. For the data analysi...