...Irene Zempi; Loretta Trickett; Katerina Krulisova; Paul Hamilton; Amanda Hanson Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and challenges of hate crime training for police, city council and other partner employees in Nottingham, United Kingdom. The paper considers the value...

...Richard Abayomi Aborisade; Segilola Yewande Oladejo; Edafe Ulo Purpose This article explores the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities in the policing of violence against women (VAW) in rural Nigeria. It critically examines the structural, institutional, and cultural factors that shape policing...

...Nasser AlSabah; Kevin T. Wolff; Abdulwahab AlAsfour Purpose Police institutions and practitioners often associate personality traits with an individual’s likelihood of success in policing, emphasizing certain psychological profiles as better suited for handling the stressful conditions inherent...

... important regarding police use of force against members of the community. This study examines differences in perceptions of police use of force amongst US citizens who were born in the United States and those who were born abroad. Design/methodology/approach We used a nationally representative public...

...Isabo Goormans; Arjan Blokland; Wouter Steenbeek; Christophe Vandeviver Purpose This study aims to identify incident profiles within cases of assaults against police officers by examining how multiple suspect, officer and situational correlates combine into distinct assault scenarios. Design...

...Logan J. Somers; Amanda Graham Purpose US law enforcement is currently facing a workforce shortage. As agencies seek to recruit officers, research on the contemporary elements that may draw or deter members of the public to police work is lacking, especially among the general population. Design...

...Vincent Mousseau; Genevieve Morin; Étienne Charbonneau Purpose This study reviews 25 years of scientific literature on civilian personnel in law enforcement agencies, examining their experiences and impacts on policing activities while mapping knowledge gaps. Design/methodology/approach...

... with police, a critical element of public safety. Divides across perceptions and experiences with the government and civic engagement, as well as personal attributes, likely factor into evaluations of police fairness. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on a cross-sectional statewide survey of Virginians...

...Francis D. Boateng; Daniel K. Pryce; Hajed Alotaibi Purpose This study contributes to the extant literature by being the first to examine the relative impacts of a normative factor (procedural justice) and instrumental factors (police effectiveness and risk of sanctions) of policing...

... hiding. Design/methodology/approach The study followed a qualitative, inductive methodology, drawing on a dataset of 106 interviews from two UK policing organizations, including interviews with both police officers and police staff. Data were analysed via a process of thematic analysis, which...

...Jeremy M. Wilson; Clifford A. Grammich Purpose Although there is considerable research on conservation-oriented crime and policing in other protected spaces, research on national parks remains scarce. This work examines law enforcement in the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). Design/methodology...

... as disabilities within the workplace. This poses a dilemma as to how and when individuals disclose this information to an employer. Design/methodology/approach The aims of this article were to explore the disclosure experiences of 37 police officers and staff within the UK police force using Interpretative...

.... As frontline enforcers of COVID-19 restrictions, police were confronted with these attitudes and behaviours every day. This study examines whether the perceived trustworthiness of police during the pandemic – particularly procedural justice – protected public trust in police and reduced conspiracy theory...

...Jannick Schneider; Clemens Striebing; Lydia Uhler; Johanna Marie Wührl; Simon Schmaus; Mathias Weber Purpose This study investigates the differential effectiveness of leadership styles within the German Federal Police Office, focusing on how these styles interact with employees' personal values...

...Nicholas Goldrosen Purpose The purpose of this study is to describe police officers’ workplace social networks and to examine how police officers’ social ties, in combination with organisational climate, affect their attitudes towards and willingness to report misconduct. Design/methodology...

... police department. First, qualitative methods were used to interview nine patrol officers during participant observations in the form of ride-alongs. Second, patrol officers and officers who volunteer with the department opioid outreach program were surveyed. Findings Officers generally held mixed...

...Lorna Ferguson; Laura Huey; Hina Kalyal; Judith P. Andersen Purpose Incident commanders (ICs) are senior police officials tasked with being the key operational decision-makers and leading a command team during major, critical and public order incidents (e.g. bomb threats, hostage situations...

...Brandon del Pozo; Saba Rouhani; M.H. Clark; Danielle Atkins; Barbara Andraka-Christou; Kaitlin F. Martins Purpose The 2020 murder of George Floyd resulted in challenges to policing in the United States of America, but little is known about how police chiefs perceive them. At the same time, chiefs...

.... The purpose of the study is to identify the boundaries established by police forces within England and Wales for their reviews of cold cases. Due to the lack of guidance, forces have created their own methods which may result in ineffective review processes and strategies. Therefore, this study sought...

...Ricardo Tejeiro; Neil Shortland; Alberto Paramio; Laurence Alison; José Luis González Purpose We analyse the role of subject matter experts' experience in establishing performance benchmarks for ambiguous and unstructured police tasks. Design/methodology/approach Participants included 156...