Demands on police officers in the past 30 years have grown dramatically with the increasing threats to social order and personal security. Selection of police officers has always been difficult, but now with the increasing demand and complexity of police work, along with the candidates applying from Generation X and even Generation Y, the selection process has become more critical. The personal...

This study describes the learning potential of serious games and their success in a number of domains such as the military, healthcare, education, and emergency services. The work aims to highlight the training opportunities available for serious games in the police domain in general, and in the Dubai police force in particular, and the challenges facing the serious games domain. The success of...

Police represents an institution that regulates the social welfare where the officers assimilate the behavioral codes to perform their functions. One of the problems identified in the police officer's behaviors refers to aggressive expressions, probably linked with impulsive reactions. In this report, we show an exploratory study to elucidate the neurocognitive correlation of impulsivity in a M...

How police officers approach and try to reason with civilians and offenders can determine how certain situations are resolved. Due to monetary and time costs, training of such social skills is currently not available to all police officers. To assist in the training curriculum of the Dutch police, we are developing a serious game prototype in which police officers interact with virtual agents t...

Author(s): Clea Wright Whelan ; Graham Wagstaff ; Jacqueline M Wheatcroft Title: High stakes lies: Police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception Date: 2015. Appeared online 26 June 2014 Originally published in: Psychology, Crime and Law Example citation: Wright Whelan, C., Wagstaff, G., & Wheatcroft, J. M. (2015). High stakes lies: Police and non-police accuracy in detecting deception. ...

This article emphasizes the limits of the effectiveness of Supreme Court-imposed restraints on police behavior. It argues that such effectiveness is mitigated by the milieu in which the police officer operates, by the characteristics of the police decisionmaking process, and by the relationship police have with their reference groups. The focus is not upon the Supreme Court, nor upon any single...

Police officers' job satisfaction is an important issue for police force management, but insufficient research exists on the topic, especially in China. This study aimed to examine the associations of job stress and organizational identification with job satisfaction among Chinese police officers, and particularly the mediating role of psychological capital (PsyCap). A cross-sectional study was...

Throughout the first three decades of the twentieth century, black people in New York City encountered white violence, especially police brutality in Manhattan. The black community used various strategies to curtail white mob violence and police brutality, one of which was self-defense. This article examines blacks’ response to violence, specifically the debate concerning police brutality and s...

Drawing on theories of representative bureaucracy theory, we examine whether increased representation of women in police forces in England leads to a higher rate of domestic violence arrests. To do so, we use panel regression techniques to analyze the links between gender representation and variations in the arrest of domestic abuse perpetrators, when controlling for a range of other relevant v...