Due to the change of society, the development of technology, the cross straight interaction and the internationalization of Taiwan over past decades, police officers faced more severe criminal conditions when they executed their duties. From 2002 to 2006, 103 police officers died and 2,791 police officers were wounded on duty, and 37 were committed suicide, according to the National Police Agen...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated whether measures of waking or diurnal cortisol secretion, or self-reported psychological disturbances differed among police officers with a Period3 (PER3) clock gene length polymorphism. METHODS The cortisol awakening response was characterized via the area under the salivary cortisol curve with respect to the increase (AUCI) or total waking cortisol (AUCG). Diu...

The current work explored law enforcement officers’ racial bias in decisions to shoot criminal suspects as well as their self-reported beliefs about Black versus White suspects. In addition, this work examined what factors contribute to officers’ racial biases and the likelihood of having these biases eliminated. Examination of the officers’ explicit attitudes toward Black people and their beli...

OBJECTIVE Crisis intervention team (CIT) training provides police officers with knowledge and skills to improve their responses to individuals with mental illnesses. This study determined changes in knowledge, attitudes, and social distance related to schizophrenia among police officers after CIT training. METHODS A survey was administered to 159 officers immediately before and after a 40-hou...

This research work is an exploratory study of occupational stress among executive officers of Nepal. The main objective of the study was to find out the significance relationship between the occupational stressors among executive officers of Nepal. Scores on the stress scale using a t-test of significance between correlated means. The results showed that among executive officers of Nepal do exp...

Critical incident stress debriefings (CISDs) are a form of crisis management for rescuers such as police officers, fire-fighters and others involved in rescue efforts during natural disasters. This article describes a qualitative evaluation study of one police department's CISD implementation. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten police officers involve...

introduction: job burnout results from the reaction to the chronic psychological stress and it mainly occurs in care services. it may lead to consequences such as job cost, reduced performance and fatigue. this study aimed to investigate the nursing administrators and chief executive officers job burnout in three areas of depersonalization, fatigue and emotional exhaustion and its relation to s...