Policing: An International Journal: Volume 47 Issue 4

Active shooter incidents: training, safety, culture and officers’ support for prioritizing victims’ lives above their own

Scott W. Phillips, Tammy Rinehart Kochel

Active shooter incidents have risen considerably in recent years, elevating public and law enforcement focus on improving response to these incidents. The contemporary policy for…

The final frontier: police culture for women in men’s spaces

Natalie Todak

This study explores how police culture is experienced by women officers serving in positions where they are significantly underrepresented (i.e. leadership and elite specialty…

Willingness to cooperate with police in hate crime cases: the impact of police legitimacy, police encounters and race/ethnicity

Selye Lee

While the significance of public cooperation for police effectiveness is widely acknowledged, less is known about factors associated with cooperation in hate crime cases. The…

Emergency policing and public trust in the police in Ghana: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh, Claudia Dzordzormenyoh, Jerry Dogbey-Gakpetor

The COVID-19 pandemic provides researchers and practitioners with an opportunity to examine the effect of emergency policing on public trust in the police and augment our…

Police responses to vulnerable populations: tracking the evolution from “zero-policing” to “co-responding”

Robert J. Kane, Jordan M. Hyatt, Matthew J. Teti

The paper examines the historical shifts in policing strategies towards individuals with SMI and vulnerable populations, highlighting the development of co-response models…

The effect of supervisors making after-hours work requests on employees’ job stress: the cross-level contextual effect of social support

Jui-Chung Kao, Hsiang-Yu Ma, Kao Rui-Hsin, Cheng-Chung Cho

The rise of communication software has changed our work style. The objectives of this study are: (1) to explore the effect of supervisors making after-hours work requests using…

Drug recognition experts in trials: perspectives from criminal justice system actors

Brittany Solensten, Dale Willits

The purpose of this study was to fill the gap in understanding the impact of Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) evidence and testimony in driving under the influence (DUI) trials. This…

Police officer attitudes toward pre-arrest behavioral health diversion programs: identifying determinants of support for deflection using a machine learning method

Ellen A. Donnelly, Madeline Stenger, Daniel J. O'Connell, Adam Gavnik, Jullianne Regalado, Laura Bayona-Roman

This study explores the determinants of police officer support for pre-arrest/booking deflection programs that divert people presenting with substance use and/or mental health…

Linking police and citizen data: a multilevel analysis on the effects of organizational effectiveness and fairness on procedural justice

Luye Li, Ivan Sun, Yuning Wu

Police procedural justice is essential in shaping police legitimacy and public willingness to cooperate, yet factors that affect police fair treatment of citizens are not fully…

Does national police accreditation undermine local control?

Gordon Abner, Jung Hyub Lee

One of the main roadblocks to increasing uptake of national police accreditation (i.e. accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)) is…

A grasp of police research: characteristics of empirical research on police careers based on multiple scoping reviews

Anse Stevens, Axelle Mangelschots, Yinthe Feys, Antoinette Verhage

This article provides an overview of the literature characteristics of empirical research on topics related to police careers from 2000 to 2021. Methodology, distribution in time…

“Should I stay or should I go”: experience does not make the expert in police snap decision-making

Ricardo Tejeiro, Neil Shortland, Alberto Paramio, Laurence Alison, José Luis González

We analyse the role of subject matter experts' experience in establishing performance benchmarks for ambiguous and unstructured police tasks.