Under Pressure

ORBIT ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Frances Surmon-Böhr ◽  
Laurence J. Alison ◽  
Neil D. Shortland ◽  
Emily K. Alison
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Deliberate Practice ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Imminent Threat ◽  
Training Exercises ◽  
The Military

This chapter discusses the concept and potential issues surrounding “urgent safety” or “imminent threat” interviews. It also summarizes a series of observations of law enforcement officers’ performance during simulated urgent interviews across a series of training exercises. The authors’ observations (both from psychologists as trainers and police facilitators) include the following: (1) safety interviewing appears to require a different skill set from evidential interviewing; (2) officers struggled to communicate a sense of intensity, gravity, and urgency required of an interview that aims to obtain information very quickly to preserve life and maintain public safety; (3) in order to improve, interviewers must practice these sorts of interactions more often (they require deliberate practice and feedback with guidance); and (4) elements of interviewing and time-sensitive questioning in the military may offer a useful template of the intensity and urgency required in police safety interviews.

Employee Assistance Programs

2017 ◽  
pp. 199-219
Author(s):  
Evan M. Axelrod
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Employee Assistance Programs ◽  
Employee Assistance ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
The Public

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce and explore counseling and psychological services for law enforcement officers that extend beyond critical incident interventions. In particular, this chapter focuses on Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), including discussion of how such programs have become an essential tool in supporting and sustaining law enforcement officers, their families, the agencies they work for, and the communities they serve. This chapter discusses what an EAP is, the benefits of EAPs, and the return on investment that public safety agencies can expect when utilizing an EAP. Relevant topics such as confidentiality, internal vs. external EAPs, and the need for specialized EAPs for public safety agencies are addressed. Finally, the chapter also explores non-traditional services that can be offered through EAPs to assist public safety agencies in supporting and sustaining their personnel in meeting their mission of serving the public.

Changing Uniforms

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Stanley Shernock
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
New England ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Police Organizations ◽  
Military Background ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

Most academic attention regarding military influence on policing has focused on critiques of the military model of policing and police militarization and has neglected to examine the relationship between the two institutions and the transferability of attributes and skills from the military to police. Military service itself, when examined, has been treated as an undifferentiated concept that has not distinguished the effects of organizational structure, leadership, and myriad roles and experiences on policing. This study, using data from a survey of law enforcement officers throughout a New England state, compares and analyzes how law enforcement officers and supervisors with and without military background and with and without deployment experience differ in their perspectives regarding both the positive as well as negative aspects of combat deployment on policing. As such, it has significant implications for both the reintegration and recruitment of combat-deployed veterans into police organizations.

scholarly journals On the Religious Situation in the Republic of Dagestan: a Study Based on the Data of Sociological Surveys of Young People Studying in Makhachkala

Islamovedenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Gusenova Djamilya Adamkadievna ◽  
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Sarkarova Naila Akhedovna ◽  
Agayeva Shemsi Akhedovna ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Religious Extremism ◽  
Preventive Work ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Military

With the end of the military phase of counteracting religious extremism and terrorism, the ideological confrontation of individual social groups has become latent and weakly expressed. Today, in the vanguard of this confrontation are young people who are studying, and in their social enviroment there are obviously some ideas of social justice, morality, and morals that may be reinterpreted from the standpoint of Islamic dogma. This sociological research has shown that the majority of students at secular schools and universities in Dagestan show a weak dependence on the opinion of religious figures. However, about 10 % of students are under their influence. This may have some negative consequences in the situation of continued distrust of law en-forcement agencies on the part of 60 to 70 % of civilian population, which is not prepared to cooperate with law enforcement bodies in counteracting religious extremism and terrorism. In this regard, the authors propose to include in the preventive work the measures aimed at increas-ing the level of trust of citizens to law enforcement officers.

scholarly journals Radical Islamists in the publications of the central press during the Dagestan campaign of 1999

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-255
Author(s):  
Denis V. Tumakov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Military

The article examines the image of radical Islamists, which was created in the publications of the largest domestic periodicals during the military operations in Dagestan in August–September 1999. The author analyses front-line reports and interviews with high-ranking military leaders published in such central newspapers and magazines as Nezavisimaya gazeta, Trud, Izvestiya, Kommersant, Echo planety, Novoe vremya and some others. Among the sources, there are both serious analytical broadsheets and tabloids. The author also pays attention to the regional press, for example, the Yaroslavl periodicals Karavan-Ros and Yaroslavskie novosti. These publications delivered valuable information on the ideology of the enemy, their weapons and equipment, and the war crimes they committed, and also reflected the attitude to the militants of the Russian soldiers and policemen who opposed them. The detachments of militants who opposed the federal forces and the Dagestani law enforcement officers appeared in these reports as cruel religious fanatics, intolerant of the bearers of any other ideology, ready to impose it on other people by force. At the same time, following military and law enforcement officials, Russian journalists were forced to recognize high combat qualities of the enemy, their perseverance and steadfastness in battle. Most of the pieces mentioned the fact that the rebels possessed a large number of modern weapons, both domestic and foreign-made, and also said that they had developed professionally competent in-depth defense. The author draws a conclusion about the antipathy of Russian reporters to the rebel combat units and identifies the reasons for the change in the attitude of the media towards them in comparison with the First Chechen War of 1994–96. In those years, journalists condemned military actions of the federal forces in the Caucasus, but in 1999 they supported the operation in Dagestan and considered Islamic radicals as ordinary bandits.

Cultural Fragmentation as a Barrier to Interagency Collaboration: A Qualitative Examination of Texas Law Enforcement Officers’ Perceptions

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 886-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galia Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Interagency Collaboration ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Public management scholars have long speculated on the importance of interagency collaboration among public agencies in the delivery of public services. This study examines barriers to public interagency collaboration in the area of public safety. Interjurisdictional collaboration among law enforcement agencies at all levels has become emblematic of “new governance” models for enhanced public safety delivery. However, such collaborative efforts encounter many challenges. The purpose of this research is to examine the ways in which cultural fragmentation among law enforcement officials constrain interagency collaboration. This study collected information from 45 law enforcement officers and command personnel from 18 different local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies in a large metropolitan area in Texas. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews and focus groups. Analysis of the data revealed three potential dimensions of cultural fragmentation that impede collaborative efforts between agencies and departments: the agency-type dimension, the rank-segment dimension, and the leadership style dimension. Implications for practice and future research are discussed as well.

Education for Security as a Process of Eliciting and Developing Law Enforcers’ Personality

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Pieczywok
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Genetic Structures

Present times are filled with a great number of incidents of a different nature because the 21st century is a time of significant transformation and progress in various areas of human life. In connection with the growing number of social and public threats, the importance of education for security is increasing, which is of particular significance when developing proper attitudes and values and for gaining knowledge and skills in the field of counteracting different threats. It is one of the fundamental methods of providing security and managing difficult or conflict situations. Education in security is of special importance in the work of law enforcement officers. Its content may considerably help when counteracting threats, and on the other hand, it may make law enforcers realise their potential as well as features of their personality. This education does not only mean transferring knowledge or developing skills, but also stimulating creativity in the work of law enforcers who are responsible for public safety. In the author’s opinion, thanks to education in security it is possible to create numerous personality attributes for officers, especially those of the human psyche (thinking) and mind (the state of self-consciousness, rationalism, empiricism, values, norms, moral and ethical problems). The author thinks that all the education and upbringing processes are possible when predispositions develop, which in turn are originally of an inborn and genetic structures status. A personality model of a law enforcer derived from the bicultural theory of a human being ought to be the basis of education for security which calls for an original paradigm for educating and upbringing. In the new paradigm, the role of public safety officers increases significantly because of high intellectual, moral and ethical expectations.

scholarly journals Mass casualty incidents and tactical medical capabilities amongst first responders

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jason Hartley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
First Responders ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Mass Casualty Incident ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Emergency Personnel ◽  
Response And Recovery

In August 2018, I was awarded the inaugural Australian Tactical Medical Association (ATMA) study grant to attend the International Public Safety Association (IPSA) Fall 2018 Symposium in Virginia, United States of America (USA) and conduct research in tactical medical methodologies utilised by first responders. This report outlines the outcomes of my objectives for the study grant: •Record the content and lessons learnt by attendance at the International Public Safety Association (IPSA) 2018 Fall Symposium; and •Explore tactical medical methodologies, particularly within law enforcement and its application to Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) response. The IPSA Fall 2018 Symposium primarily focused on MCIs and the planning, response and recovery to such incidents by first responders, such as Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs), Paramedics/Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Firefighters and other emergency personnel. Due to operational sensitivities, some information or conversations from engagements is redacted. This, however, has not affected the substance of this report nor its recommendations. My goal for this study grant is to promote awareness and education to groups or organisations which have had limited exposure to tactical medical methodologies or MCIs. Through simple knowledge and equipment, survivability amongst victims and first responders can be significantly improved.

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