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Dinosaur visits the police station
\"A visit to the police station might not be fun for those in trouble, but for this dino it's a chance to see what dad does during the workday! The police station is full of activity and hardworking dinosaurs keeping everyone safe. But there's still time to have a bit of fun, and even meet the police chief! Beginning readers explore the police station along with their dino friend, who gets to check out a police car and even have his fingerprints taken!\"--Publisher's website.
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How women's police stations empower women, widen access to justice and prevent gender violence
Women's police stations are a distinctive innovation that emerged in postcolonial nations of the global south in the second half of the twentieth century to address violence against women. This article presents the results of a world-first study of the unique way that these stations, called Comisaria de la Mujer, prevent gender-based violence in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. One in five police stations in this Province was established with a mandate of preventing gender violence. Little is currently known about how this distinctive multidisciplinary model of policing (which includes social workers, lawyers, psychologists and police) widens access to justice to prevent gender violence. This article compares the model's virtues and limitations to traditional policing models. We conclude that specialised women's police stations in the postcolonial societies of the global south increase access to justice, empower women to liberate themselves from the subjection of domestic violence and prevent gender violence by challenging patriarchal norms that sustain it. As a by-product, these women's police stations also offer women in the global south a career in law enforcement-one that is based on a gender perspective. The study is framed by southern criminology, which reverses the notion that ideas, policies and theories can only travel from the anglophone world of the global north to the global south.
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Richard Scarry's A day at the police station
Bridget spends a day at work with her father, Sergeant Murphy, and learns what an important job being a police officer is.
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Impact of Security on Rental Price of Residential Properties: Evidence from South Africa
The property market plays a vital role in the economy through the provision of constructed space for productive activities and employment opportunities. Evidence gleaned from the literature suggests that the level of security within an area affects property prices. In the current study, the distance between a property and the police station was used as a proxy variable for measuring the perceived level of security. The data on rental prices of residential properties and its attributes were retrieved from a reliable property source (www.property24.com). A Neural network model was used for evaluating the impact of the presence of a police station on rental prices of residential properties within Cape Town, South Africa. Experimental results showed that the developed model is 77.27% accurate when used to predict the rental prices of residential properties. Floor area, number of bathroom, number of bedroom and proximity of a police station have the most significant impact on the rental price of residential properties. Greater efforts are needed to provide insights into the effect of sustainability on rental prices of residential properties. This information would serve a justification for embedding sustainability into residential construction projects.
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Women's Police Stations
Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship, using women's police stations in Sao Paulo. These are police stations run exclusively by police women for women with the authority to investigate crimes against women such as domestic violence, assault and rape. Sao Paulo was the home of the first such police station, and there are now more than 250 women's police stations throughout Brazil. Cecilia MacDowell Santos examines the importance of this phenomenon for the first time, looking at the dynamics of the relationship between women and the state as a consequence of a political regime, and exploring the notion of gendered citizenship.
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The case law of the European Court of Human Rights: Its content and effect on suicide prevention in custody and detention
This article analyses developments in case law based on Article 2 (right to life) in the European Court of Human Rights as they relate to suicide prevention for those in detention (in prison, police stations, or psychiatric hospitals) and the paradoxical effects they have had on prevention policies enacted by states condemned by the Court. I first show that the jurisprudential philosophy used by the Court is characterized by an emphasis on risk management and a narrow understanding of individual motivations for suicide. I then demonstrate that, under pressure from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the national associations for the defence of the rights of detainees, the Court’s judgments have led states to adopt suicide prevention policies that are actuarial (based on risk management) and punitive. However, this perverse effect seems to be partially offset by the possibility that the families of detainees, through the investigative duties of member states of the Council of Europe, can exercise at least some supervision over the custodial and police systems.
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Effectiveness of one-time endoscopic screening programme in prevention of upper gastrointestinal cancer in China: a multicentre population-based cohort study
ObjectivesTo estimate the effectiveness of endoscopic screening programme in reducing incidence and mortality of upper gastrointestinal cancer in high risks areas of China.DesignThis multicentre population-based cohort study was conducted in six areas in China from 2005 to 2015. All permanent residents aged 40 to 69 years were identified as target subjects. We refer to those who were invited for screening collectively as the invited group. Of these, we classify those who were invited and undertook endoscopic screening as the screened group and those who were invited but did not accept screening as the non-screened group. Target subjects who were not invited to the screening were assigned to the control group. The effectiveness of the endoscopic screening and screening programme were evaluated by comparing reductions in incidence and mortality from upper gastrointestinal cancer in the screened and invited group with control group.ResultsOur cohort analysis included 637 500 people: 299 483 in the control group and 338 017 in the invited to screening group, 113 340 (33.53%) of whom were screened eventually. Compared with subjects in the control group, upper gastrointestinal cancer incidence and mortality decreased by 23% (relative risk (RR)=0.77, 95% CI 0.74 to 0.81) and 57% (RR=0.43, 95% CI 0.40 to 0.47) in the screened group, respectively, and by 14% (RR=0.86, 95% CI 0.84 to 0.89) and 31% (RR=0.69, 95% CI 0.66 to 0.72) in the invited group, respectively.ConclusionAmong individuals aged 40 to 69 years in high risk areas of upper gastrointestinal cancer, one-time endoscopic screening programme was associated with a significant decrease in upper gastrointestinal cancer incidence and mortality.
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ACTIVITIES OF POLICE IN THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MADRAS PROVINCE
The aim of this article is to understand the activities of police in the freedom movement with special reference to Madras province. Lord Curzon, the Viceroy and Governor General appointed to National Police Commission in July, 1902 under the Presidentship of A.H.L. Fraser. The Inspector General of Police, Madras Presidency, H.A. Stuart, was appointed the Secretary of the Commission. The report of the Commission was approved in 1904. Some important decisions of the Government of India are Deputy Inspectors General to be police officers, promoted from the Superintendents of Police. Officers of the superior Police service, the Asst. Superintendents of Police, should be recruited from the Europeans in England, but trained in India. Inspectors should be made 90% by promotion and placed at par with Tahsildars. Sub Inspectors (SIs) should be mainly recruited directly, percentage of promotion of Head Constables to SIs should be fixed, Sub Inspectors should be trained in Provincial centres and paid on par with Naib Tahsildars. Constables should be locally recruited and trained at Central Schools in each province, their pay should be increased. Each province should have a CID and the officer heading the CID should also head the Railway Police and Each Province should have a regular Police and an armed reserve, but there should not be any separate recruitment for each the constabulary should perform both the functions.
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Paula Salmons: psychiatrist who established eating disorder service in Birmingham and warned against social pressure on women and girls to be thin
[...]it was a challenge. In 1986 West Midlands local health authority funded Salmons and psychology colleagues David Booth and Vivien Lewis to conduct research into the prevalence of body dissatisfaction in Birmingham schoolchildren. Not long after their return a year later, Salmons was appointed a lecturer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
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