DISTRICT POLICE OFFICERS AND POLICE COMMUNITIES: REALITIES OF TODAY

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...

Female Police Officers: Gender Bias and Professionalism

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...

Context-Aware Notification for Mobile Police Officers

To minimize unwanted interruption and information overload during surveillance, mobile police officers need to be supported by a mobile, contextaware notification system. This system adapts message presentation to message priority and context of use. A prototype is designed and evaluated in a simulated surveillance task, requiring users to attend to videos while handling messages on a mobile de...