Broadband ISDN resource allocation and congestion control present a major challenge. A preventative control scheme based on a call admission procedure and source policing is favoured by a number of groups. This paper investigates the behaviour of the leaky bucket policing mechanism. Simulation studies of a simple ATM multiplexer model in which a number of policed sources feed a deterministicall...

Child protection is an area of police work which has expanded in the last decade, leading to an increase in the number of police officers working in departments which specialise in investigating cases of child abuse. Police officers in this field may be at greater risk of experiencing secondary traumatic stress but there remains a paucity of research in this area of policing. Analogies can be d...

OBJECTIVES Licensed premises are associated with a considerable level of alcohol-related harm. This study examined the effectiveness of an educational policing strategy, implemented as routine policing practice, to reduce the number of patrons of licensed premises involved in police-recorded incidents of violence, disorder and motor vehicle crashes. PARTICIPANTS The educational policing strat...

Evidence-based policing is a method of making decisions about “what works” in policing: which practices and strategies accomplish police missions most cost-effectively. In contrast to basing decisions on theory, assumptions, tradition, or convention, an evidence-based approach continuously tests hypotheses with empirical research findings. While research on all aspects of policing grew substant...

Policing is increasingly being shaped by data collection and analysis. However, we still know little about the quality of police services acquire utilize. Drawing on a survey analysts from across Canada, this article examines several collection, analysis, issues. We argue that as move towards an era big policing it imperative pay more attention to they collect. conclude discussing implications ...

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) developed an organization-wide drug policy approach, which included endorsing harm reduction strategies for people who inject drugs (PWID). We sought to examine rates of potentially harmful policing exposures and associated HIV risk behaviour among PWID in Vancouver, Canada before and after the VPD policy change. METHODS Data were de...

BACKGROUND Drug market policing has been associated with various harms among injection drug users (IDU). However, little is known about instances in which drugs and injecting equipment are confiscated from IDU in the absence of a formal arrest. METHODS We examined factors associated with being stopped, searched, or detained by police among participants in the Vancouver Injection Drug Users St...