BACKGROUND Up to 20% of US military personnel deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan experience mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) while deployed; up to one-third will experience persistent post-concussive symptoms (PCS). The objective of this study was to examine the epidemiology of deployment-related mTBI and its relationship to PCS and mental health problems (MHPs) in Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) pe...

OBJECTIVE To count and characterise injuries resulting from legal intervention by US law enforcement personnel and injury ratios per 10 000 arrests or police stops, thus expanding discussion of excessive force by police beyond fatalities. DESIGN Ecological. POPULATION Those injured during US legal police intervention as recorded in 2012 Vital Statistics mortality census, 2012 Healthcare Cos...

BACKGROUND Police and correctional officers face the occupational hazard of blood and body fluid exposures, which carry the risk of infection with HIV. AIMS To estimate the incidence rate (IR) of emergency department (ED) visits for blood or body fluid exposures sustained by police and corrections officers in an entire state and to quantify the utilization of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PE...

The article examines the value orientations of police officers as a factor in personnel turnover National Police Ukraine, and also analyzes conditions under which training future specialists takes place, special scientific literature legal framework on subject research. problem valuable practitioners bodies Police, from point view methodology, needs to be considered ethical philosophical aspect...

Third party policing’ describes police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties, such as landlords, parents, local governments and other regulators, and business owners, to take some responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems. In third party policing, the police create crime control guardians in locations or situations where crime control guardianship was previously absen...

BACKGROUND There is considerable interest in understanding further the factors that increase the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for military personnel. This study aimed to investigate the relative contribution of demographic variables; childhood adversity; the nature of exposure to traumatic events during deployment; appraisal of these experiences; and home-coming experiences in ...

Civilian administrative assistants who work for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, known as Detachment Services Assistants (DSAs), are frequently exposed to materials and/or experiences that potentially psychologically traumatic. Drawing from 49 semi-structured interviews with DSAs, we analyze how these civilian personnel experience exposure traumatic events, most notably, vicarious trauma. Spe...