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Focus on Police Research and Development

NCJ Number
181139
Journal
Focus on Police Research and Development Issue: 11 Complete Issue Dated: Summer 1999 Pages: 1-87
Editor(s)
Cressy Bridgeman
Date Published
1999
Length
87 pages
Annotation
Great Britain's Crime Reduction Program, local crime and disorder partnerships, and other crime prevention developments and activities are the focus of this journal issue.
Abstract
Beginning articles in the journal pertain to police force organization, deaths in police custody, best value policing, vehicle crime reduction, auditing crime and disorder, regional research and development, and domestic violence. Additional articles deal with interagency use of information technology, contemporary policing issues, drugs and crime, specialist tracking dogs, child safety, bogus telephone callers, the British Crime Survey, firearms training of female police officers, the behavior of serial offenders, and liaison officers of the Policing and Reducing Crime Unit. Tables, figures, and photographs