The recession beginning in 2008 caused many unprecedented difficulties for sustaining police workforces throughout the United States (Police Executive Research Forum [PERF], 2013; Wilson & Grammich, 2012; Wilson & Heinonen, 2012; Wilson & Weiss, 2012). These included budget and workforce reduction, consolidation, and even organizational disbanding. Further compounding these challenges, over tim...

The study was aimed to investigate relationship between active, adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies and mental health in police personnel. The sample included 100 constables, 100 inspectors and 100 officers incidentally selected from Uttar Pradesh (UP) police department. The Brief COPE scale (Carver, 1997) and Mental Health Inventory (Jagdish & Srivastava, 1983) were administered on them...

The attitude of the public toward mental illness and toward psychiatric patients raises a serious and sensitive issue that indirectly affects the development of community mental health services. Most citizens feel that there is an association between mental illness and dangerous or violent behavior. Studies undertaken among police personnel in the 1970s demonstrated that their attitudes were si...

BACKGROUND Military deployment to combat zones puts military personnel to a number of physical and mental challenges that may adversely affect mental health. Until now, few studies have been performed in Europe on mental health utilization after military deployment. OBJECTIVE We compared the incidence of mental health consultations with the Military Mental Health Service (MMHS) of military de...

Background for this study is the increased complexity in policing that has become more knowledge-based and more professional in the last decade. Aim of this paper is to present empirical results from a study of attitudes of police managers to different leadership roles in their jobs in two police districts in Norway. A questionnaire was developed and administered among police managers in two po...

OBJECTIVE Commonly held attitudes concerning the effects of parental wartime deployment on children have usually been guided by stereotype, rather than scientific data. To determine the effects of Operation Desert Storm on military children and their parents, the authors compared children and families with and without a deployed soldier-parent prior to and during Operation Desert Storm. METHO...