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- Title
Occupational Health and Safety Risks Faced by Police Officers.
- Authors
Mayhew, Claire
- Abstract
The article reports on the health and safety risks on the nature of the job of police officers. These include the risk of homicide, assault, risk of acquiring communicable disease, stress and fatigue. It relates several studies referring to the statistics and issues on police abuse such as domestic disputes in Australia, AIDS transmission in the U.S., and the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of a police officer in New South Wales. Furthermore, it gives some assailant characteristics which are usually male, alcohol or drug affected, and those that had history of violence as resolution to conflicts.
- Subjects
VIOLENCE against police; POLICE stress; HOMICIDE; ASSAULT &; battery; FATIGUE (Physiology); VIOLENCE; HIV infection transmission; POST-traumatic stress disorder; SOCIAL conditions of criminals; CRIME statistics
- Publication
Trends & Issues in Crime & Criminal Justice, 2001, Issue 196, p1
- ISSN
0817-8542
- Publication type
Article