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Learning to Become a Police Officer: Police Socialisation

2017
The book moves again from the organisational to the cultural and examines how recruits ‘learn’ to become police officers. Although much literature on learning focuses on formal learning, in the context of policing, it is as important to consider the ‘informal learning’ within the workplace as potentially a key, if not the key, influence on the ...
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Benefits to Police Officers of Having a Spouse or Partner in the Profession of Police Officer

Psychological Reports, 2004
This exploratory study of police officers examined potential effects of having a spouse or partner who is also in police work on levels of work-family conflict and spouse or partner concerns. Data were collected from 776 police officers in Norway using anonymously completed questionnaires. Police officers having spouses or partners also in police work
Ronald J, Burke, Aslaug, Mikkelsen
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Police Officer Attitudes toward Marijuana: A Descriptive Analysis

The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1982
The attitudes of a major metropolitan police force were surveyed with regard to their beliefs about marijuana; especially, their beliefs about the effects of marijuana, the enforcement of laws for possession, and the causes for marijuana use. The results indicated that most officers felt marijuana was harmful (physically as well as psychologically) but
K H, Beck, A L, Kavelak, T G, Summons
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A model for police officer burnout

Journal of Business and Psychology, 1990
This article presents an empirically derived model of police officer burnout based on 199 male police officers. A brief review of research on police officer stress is also provided.
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A Police Officer and A Gentleman

2019
<P>'MICHAEL' WILCOX is not well-known but he had a very distinguished career in the police service, starting as a constable in the City of Bristol Police and ending as the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire. The death of his father meant that he left school early, but his shortened education did not stop him applying to Lord Trenchard's new Police ...
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A psychological programme for police officers

British Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 1999
A return-to-work programme has been established in the occupational health and welfare unit of Strathclyde Police. Occupational therapists are involved in assessing functional capacities of officers following illness. A work hardening programme has been established to address the identified functional performance deficits.
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Police Chief Officers: A Management Development Survey

Journal of Managerial Psychology, 1988
The personalities, style and job demands of top ranking police officers have never before been seriously analysed. Here, by using a management development survey, key personality characteristics and the management and interpersonal styles of top ranking officers are identified.
Andrew Kakabadse, Paul Dainty
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What Makes a Police Officer a Victim?

Science, 2000
In the United States, about 150 police officers die every year in the line of duty, and government figures suggest that some 350 suspected criminals are justifiably killed in confrontations with police. Seeking lessons behind these gruesome statistics and other disturbing trends in violent behavior nationwide (see main text) are researchers at the ...
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Death Investigation. A Handbook for Police Officers

Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2002
Abstract DEATH INVESTIGATION. A HANDBOOK FOR POLICE OFFICERS: Terry L Castleman. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, 2001, hardcover (softcover available), 170pp; US$42.95; ISBN 0-398-07104-7.
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A police officer with traumatic diaphragmatic rupture

Journal of Emergency Nursing, 1997
B, Gutsch, L, Criddle
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