Police

Prevalence of Mental Illness and Mental Health Care Use Among Police Officers

Scientific article

7 October 2020

Abstract Importance Limited literature has characterized patterns of mental illnesses and barriers in seeking mental health care among police officers. Objectives To assess the prevalence of mental illness (diagnosis) and symptoms of mental...

Law Enforcement in Prevention Programming

Video and audio recordings

3 March 2022

An APSI Prevention Talk on how to appropriately engage law enforcement in the implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies, with specific reference to the prevention of substance use.

Social Work and Policing Conference

11 February 2021

Online

In this conference project partners in Austria, Belgium and Portugal will, first, present the curriculum for the SWaPOL training, and second, open the discussion about opportunities for similar cross-disciplinary vocational training between police and social work in Europe in the future.

New Zealand Government to Grant Police the Power to Conduct Roadside Drug Testing

News

Taking drugs influences your ability to drive safely putting yourself and those around you at risk. In a bid to prevent harm caused by drug driving, the New Zealand Government have introduced police random roadside drug testing. Drivers who...

Cannabis Policy and Legislation in the Nordic Countries

Book

15 April 2019

Cannabis is used throughout the Nordic countries, with a particular increase in use among young adults. Markets and attitudes towards the drug have evolved, therefore there is a need to understand follow societies response to its use. This...

2019 AATOD Conference

19 October 2019

Orlando

The American Association for the

Measuring Improvement in Knowledge of Drug Policy Reforms Following a Police Education Program in Tijuana, Mexico

Scientific article

8 November 2017

Abstract Background Mexico’s 2009 “narcomenudeo reform” decriminalized small amounts of drugs, shifting some drug law enforcement to the states and mandating drug treatment diversion instead of incarceration. Data from Tijuana suggested...