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Policing is recognized as a highly stressful occupation, encompassing stressors not commonly encountered in other fields. In response, police-specific stress scales have been developed and used when studying police work. Despite changes in the composition of police personnel, most studies examining police working conditions focus on swor...
Police investigative interviewers in special victims’ units have particularly stressing work conditions. Being few in numbers, with highly specialised competence, the health and well-being of this workgroup are key. This study explores the prevalence of muscular lower and upper back pain and stress and associations with physical activity and organi...
Despite a growing body of research, there is no systematic body of evidence that establishes the rigour of existing measures of stress among police. The aim of this scoping review was to investigate (1) the diversity of stress measures used in police research and (2) the psychometric properties of such measures and the ways in which they are utilis...
Police work has become increasingly demanding and complex. Beside heightened pressure for efficiency employees in the police service need to handle a wide array of operational and organisational challenges in their profession (Shane, 2010; Berg et al., 2005). The impact of work stressors on employees in the police is well documented and some tasks...
Potential sources of strain at work are often divided into operational and organisational demands (Berg et al., 2005; Shane, 2010). In the police service the former, job-specific conditions, may include traumatic events and threats to physical and mental health, shift work, and overtime. The latter, organisational demands, affects all organisationa...
The project focuses on specific differences in working conditions that are of importance for mental and musculoskeletal health and for work engagement and mastery of work at the Norwegian Police Service
