Recalling a Police Officer from Leave: Problems of Legislation and Practice

Has Family Leave Legislation Increased Leave-Taking?

In 1993, the federal government passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which gives eligible employees twelve weeks of job-protected unpaid leave from work per year to address family issues. Employees are eligible for family leave under the FMLA if they have worked for their employer for at least a year, accumulating at least 1,250 work hours. Employers are covered if they employ at lea...

Oxidant and antioxidant status of police officer

This study was designed to investigate the biochemical alteration in human caused by free radical accumulation due to air pollution. The policemen recruited were 60 country policemen consisting of 30 non smokers (group I) and 30 smokers (group II); 30 smoking policemen with administrative work in Jakarta (group III) and 30 smoking traffic policemen from Jakarta (group IV). Our results show that...

Police Officer on the Frontline or a

Sparked by high-profile confrontations between police and citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere, many commentators have criticized the excessive militarization of law enforcement. We investigate whether surplus military-grade equipment acquired by local police departments from the Pentagon has an effect on crime rates. We use temporal variations in US military expenditure and betweencou...

Recalling the Medical Officer of Health. Writings by Sidney Chave

Every medical student is taught that F. G. Banting, the would-be orthopaedic surgeon and part-time physiology teacher from London, Ontario and C. H. Best, the medical student, discovered insulin in 1921-22; and many know that Banting and J. J. R. MacLeod, the Professor of Physiology in Toronto, were awarded the Nobel Prize for its discovery. A few have heard that Banting shared his half of the ...

Recalling communities of practice.