This study aimed to assess the prevalence of bruxism and emotional stress in Brazilian police officers, due to exposure to stressful situations, and to assess the relationship between the type of work done by a police officer and the presence of bruxism and emotional stress. A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Military Police of the State of São Paulo, Campinas, SP, Brazil. The final s...

OBJECTIVE To compare trends in the numbers of people with serious traffic injuries according to police statistics and hospital episode statistics (HES). DESIGN Descriptive study based on two independent population based data sources. SETTING Police statistics and hospital episode statistics in England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Rates of injury and death and their change over time reported in ...

Frontier controls in Europe are fading, some have vanished. Police communication across those frontiers is not however keeping pace with the changes. Whereas criminals and their spoils now move with greater freedom, the transmission of cross frontier police messages concerning such movements are hindered by a multitude of linguistic, procedural, administrative and legal impediments. The Europea...

Computerized search systems have been one of the most widely deployed management science technologies in the fight against crime. But how effective are they, and are they being fully exploited? Using data from a repeated-measures field study of police computer users conducted in 1976 and 1988, clear evidence is provided to demonstrate significant growth in the use of such systems and the payoff...

While a topic of considerable interest in the 1990s and early 2000s, there has been little literature on partnership working in the public sector in recent years. This is surprising given that the practice has been extended through the national roll-out of Neighbourhood Policing in England and Wales in 2008. This article presents a reassessment of how the police operate in partnership with othe...

This article deals with two contemporary issues: the return of ‘‘civilization’’ as a category of international power and the common refrain that war is now looking more and more like a police action. The article shows that these two issues are deeply connected. They have their roots in the historical connection between ‘‘civilization’’ and ‘‘police.’’ Through an exercise the history of ideas as...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers’ intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that more effective cooperation between units, a higher trust in the work partner (social capital), a higher ...

The majority of accident and emergency (A&E) departments have a good working relationship with the police, based on a mutual understanding of the conflicts which arise from the need, on one hand, to treat patients with confidentiality and on the other hand, the role of the police in maintaining law and order. In A&E work we need police help for many reasons, not least of which is staff and pati...

BACKGROUND There has been an increased drive towards Evidence Based Policing in recent years. Unlike in other public sector services, such as health and education, randomised controlled trials in the police setting are relatively rare. This paper discusses some of the methodological and practical challenges of conducting a randomised controlled trial in the police setting in the UK, based on ou...

BACKGROUND Police work is regarded as a high-stress occupation, but so far, no nationwide study has explored the associations between work stress and health. AIMS To explore physical and mental health among Norwegian police and associations to job stress. Comparisons were made with a nationwide sample of Norwegian physicians and the general Norwegian population. METHODS Comprehensive nation...