Medical support for law enforcement-extended operations incidents

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Levy, DO, MSc ◽  
Nelson Tang, MD
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Federal Law Enforcement ◽  
Clinical Encounters ◽  
Medical Response ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Chief Complaints

Objective: As the complexity and frequency of law enforcement-extended operations incidents continue to increase, so do the opportunities for adverse health and well-being impacts on the responding officers. These types of clinical encounters have not been well characterized nor have the medical response strategies which have been developed to effectively manage these encounters been well described. The purpose of this article is to provide a descriptive epidemiology of the clinical encounters reported during extended law enforcement operations, as well as to describe a best practices approach for their effective management.Design: This study retrospectively examined the clinical encounters of the Maryland State Police (MSP) Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) during law enforcement-extended operations incidents lasting 8 or more hours. In addition, a qualitative analysis was performed on clinical data collected by federal law enforcement agencies during their extended operations.Results: Forty-four percent of missions (455/1,047) supported by the MSP TMU lasted 8 or more hours. Twenty-six percent of these missions (117/455) resulted in at least one patient encounter. Nineteen percent of patient chief complaints (45/238) were related to heat illness/dehydration. Fifteen percent of encounters (36/238) were for musculoskeletal injury/pain. Eight percent of patients (19/238) had nonspecific sick call (minor illness) complaints. The next most common occurring complaints were cold-related injuries, headache, sinus congestion, and wound/laceration, each of which accounted for 7 percent of patients (16/238), respectively. Analysis of federal law enforcement agencies’ response to such events yielded similar clinical encounters.Conclusions: A wide range of health problems are reported by extended law enforcement operations personnel. Timely and effective treatment of these problems can help ensure that the broader operations mission is not compromised. An appropriate operational strategy for managing health complaints reported during extended operations involves the deployment of a well-trained medical support team using the core concepts of tactical emergency medical support.

Does Agency Type Matter for Female Federal Agents? Exploring the Offices of Inspectors General

2020 ◽  
pp. 009102601990052
Author(s):  
Helen H. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Federal Law Enforcement ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Federal Agents

Recent scholarship has examined the barriers women experience in well-known federal law enforcement agencies. However, there is scant research that examines a unique subgrouping of agents within the federal Offices of Inspectors General (OIGs). Drawing on survey data from 249 female agents, this study compares responses between female agents working in the OIGs and female agents working in all other federal law enforcement agencies to differentiate their experiences. Findings suggest that female agents in the OIGs experience less occupational barriers, namely, reduced number of relocations and incidences of sexual harassment, as well as higher agency adoption of family-friendly policies to promote work–life balance, resulting in women’s higher representation at those agencies.

Gender and Public Agency Hiring: An Exploratory Analysis of Recruitment Practices in Federal Law Enforcement

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen H. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
Federal Law Enforcement ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative

Census data indicate that women are grossly underrepresented in federal law enforcement. As all agencies must compete to attract quality candidates to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve, recruiting and hiring more women should be a priority for all agency leaders. This descriptive and exploratory analysis seeks to understand the recruitment process in federal law enforcement using both qualitative and quantitative data generated from surveys collected from 201 new federal law enforcement officers working in 32 federal law enforcement agencies. The study finds that although recruitment usually precedes hiring, federal law enforcement agencies do not appear to actively recruit their officers. The study further highlights proactive efforts to recruit more women into federal law enforcement.

“No Longer the Messiah”: Us Federal Law Enforcement Views of Religion in Connection with the 1993 Siege of Mount Carmel Near Waco, Texas

Numen ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
States Department ◽  
Federal Law Enforcement

AbstractAt the request of the United States Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury, the author reviewed the actions of Federal law enforcement agencies in Waco, Texas during the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian religious community led by David Koresh, during which dozens of people died, including both federal officers and civilians. This article analyzes the views of religion which predominate among Federal law enforcement agents and which came to light during his review of the Waco incident.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of us Border Guard Officers’ Training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center Using Online Campus

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihor Bloshchynskyi
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Law Enforcement Training ◽  
Federal Law Enforcement ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Professional training of future US border guard officers at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center using e-FLETC Online Campus has been substantiated in the article. Special attention has been paid to revealing such topical areas of Online Campus computer-based training modules (crime scene, driver training, drugs, firearms, health, interviewing, investigative, legal, mapping, maritime, officer safety, technology, terrorism, traffic stops, training) that include over 120 lessons and 20 videos which are available on a wide range of topics. Web-based training lessons which include topics such as counterterrorism, crime scene preservation and documentation, disaster, crisis and emergency strategies and management, domestic violence, drug endangered children, drug related crimes, elder abuse, firearms, fitness and healthy lifestyles, human trafficking, interacting with special needs populations, intelligence led policing, interpersonal skills and conflict management, interviews and interrogations, investigating technology related crimes (protecting and collecting digital evidence), investigative skills and techniques, knowledge of laws and regulations, leadership and management, lessons learned (previous case analysis), maritime law enforcement, etc. have been revealed. Besides, examples of “Firearms” and “Use of Force” curricula in e-FLETC Online Campus have been presented.

Social efficiency of internal affairs bodies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egor Bunov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Social Effectiveness ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Internal Affairs

The monograph contains a theoretical analysis of the social effectiveness of the internal affairs bodies as the degree of satisfaction of the population with the quality of law enforcement activities to protect their interests, rights and freedoms. The results of a multidimensional analysis of empirical studies of the influence of macro - and microsocial factors on the effectiveness of interaction between the population and law enforcement agencies are presented. The article substantiates the criteria for social assessment of the activities of the internal affairs bodies, the use of which allows for practical adjustment of the forms and methods of the management system. For a wide range of readers interested in the practice of applying legal measures of law enforcement.

scholarly journals Watching the watchers: Taskforce Argos and the evidentiary issues involved with infiltrating Dark Web child exploitation networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bleakley
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Child Exploitation ◽  
Global Law ◽  
Dark Web

As the kind of technology used by offenders advances, it has become increasingly necessary for global law enforcement agencies to adopt proactive strategies in order to effectively combat the threat posed by the organisation of child exploitation networks on the Dark Web. In spite of concerns regarding the collection of evidence, Queensland Police’s Taskforce Argos has cultivated a reputation for success in the covert infiltration of online forums dedicated to child exploitation material, due largely to the relatively loose restrictions placed on it, which allow officers to commit a wide range of criminal acts whilst conducting controlled undercover operations.

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