Central Police Research Articles

Wellington Central Police Station base isolation maintenance

Wellington Central Police Station was built in the late 1980s. Its 10-storey tower block featured robust X-bracing around the perimeter and strong floor diaphragms to distribute earthquake actions amongst the perimeter frames, thus making it extremely stiff. To provide the ductility required by the 1984 Loadings Standard, the tower block was supported on a base isolation system that allowed up to 400 millimetres of movement in any horizontal direction.
 This paper describes investigations into the continuing serviceability of the base isolation parts, and the remedial maintenance required.

A MIP model for scheduling India’s General elections and police movement

Conducting the General Elections for the 543 members of the Parliament of India across the 833 thousand polling stations spread over the 35 States is a mammoth exercise. Deployment of the Central Police Forces is essential to complement the role of the State police during the elections. However paucity of Central Police Forces necessitates the conduct of elections over stages. This paper proposes and demonstrates a MIP model to (a) schedule the elections with a minimum number of stages (b) sourcing the appropriate number of security personnel from the most convenient Central Police Forces bases (c)scheduling movement of security personnel between stages with the objective of minimizing men-miles.

제주지역 범죄발생 유형 분석 및 전략적 대응 방향

인간이 탄생한 이후, 범죄는 항상 있어왔고, 이를 예방하기 위한 수단들도 다양하게 변천되고, 발달되어 왔다. 하지만, 그 범죄를 예방하는 과정에 있어서 과거를 무시하고, 현실에 안주하며, 미래를 회피하는 근시안적이고 비전략적 방식들 또한 다수를 차지하고 있었다는 점도 간과되어져서는 안된다. 그렇다면 현재는 전략적인 범죄예방활동이 이루어지고 있는 것일까? 여기에서 논자는 그간 강조되어져 왔던 전략적 범죄예방활동 중 하나인 지역사회경찰활동(community orientied policing, COP)에 국가경찰이 병행되는 방식을 떠올렸고, 그 확인 대상으로 '07년 7월 특별자치도 지정과 함께 자치경찰이 발족하고, 기존 2개 경찰서에 하나의 경찰서가 추가로 설치되어 운영되고 있는 제주특별자치도가 가장 알맞을 것 같다는 생각을 하게 되었다. 논자는 이러한 본인의 생각을 확인하는 방법으로 자치경찰 및 경찰서가 추가로 설치되기 전 제주지역 범죄발생통계와 그 이후의 통계를 비교분석하여 그 추세를 확인하고, 제주지역만의 독특한 범죄유형을 알아보기 위해 제주지역 인구별 범죄현황을 비교분석해 보았다. 그 결과는 논자의 최초 기대에는 미치지 못했지만, 제주지역의 전략적 범죄예방을 위하여 나아가야 할 뚜렷한 방향성은 확인할 수 있었다는 점에서 의미가 없지는 않다고 생각한다. It is the fact that crime has always co-existed with human history;that preventive measures have always been taken while it has been transformed and developed in some forms. We, in the meantime;should not be negligent in the matter that our preventive measures are rather short sighted, and non strategic in many ways. Now then, would we be able to question, if our modern crime preventive measures have been modernized and become more strategic? Certain point has been raised to myself;especially regarding (community oriented policing cop); this has been one of the strategic crime preventive measures co-performed by the central police;Jeju-special independent province maybe an appropriate example; which has become special self rule province in July, 2007; establishing not only independant police but also have established police station addition to already existing police stations. To proof my opinion; I have tried to compare and contrast the statistics of the crime rates and types of the Jeju area before and after the establishment of the self police and police station; also to see how patterns changed.(if there has been any.) I have also tried to analyse if there is any special type of crime statistics in Jeju province, by analysing current crimes in accordance to populations. Altough it has not much reached my initial expectations, I hope it still is meaningful to have been able to show some ways to prevent crimes in Jeju-strategically.

Noise Induced Hearing Loss of Traffic Polices: Study of 30 Cases

A cross sectional study was done in the department of otolaryngology of Central Police Hospital. Rajarbagh, Dhaka., during the period of January 2005 to December 2007 to find out noise induced hearing loss of traffic polices and to raise awareness for early diagnosis and treatment and also preventive measures of noise induced hearing loss. 'Thirty patients who were diagnosed as a case of hearing impairment by detailed history, clinical examination and related investigations were included in the study who were exposed to noise 0-20 years. Common chief complaints of the patients were impairment of hearing (100%), Minims (50%), dizziness (20%), aural discharge (6.66)%. Medical history of 11w patients were diabetes (6.66%) and hypertension (26.66 %). 40 % patients were smoker and 60 % patients were non smoker. A ssoc jar ed other disease like chronic supporative otitis media (CSOM) t vas present in 13.33 %. Pure tone audiometry revealed normal hearing 3.3 %, conductive hearing loss 10 %, sensorineural hearing loss 73.33 %, mixed hearing loss 13.33 % and normal hearing 6.66 %, mild hearing loss 50 To, moderate type of hearing loss 36.66 % and moderately severe 3.33 %, severe hearing loss were 3.33 %. Treatment of the patients were given by vitamin 13,, Lli, B6, cochlear vasodilators such as vinpocetine and hearing aids. Patients were advised to Hume to other department of police service. those traffic police persons are vulnerable of noise induced hearing loss determined by patients complain, clinical examination and investigations like PTA, were advised to be changed to other department of police service.

Jammu & Kashmir and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act

The Armed Forces (Jammu & Kashmir) Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has been in force since the last two decades without a lull in between. More than anything else, it has facilitated violations of human rights on account of several of its draconian provisions. Though originally meant for a limited period, AFSPA has become a permanent feature now. The reports of torture, custodial killings, rapes, forced disappearances, fake encounters continuously pour from the state. Moreover, there is a virtual military rule in the state with 500,000 armed troops (300,000 army troops, 70,000 Rashtriya Rifle soldiers, 130,000 central police forces) to control the people and over 100,000 civilian intelligence and surveillance operatives to monitor them. The AFSPA has emboldened these forces to use excessive force to suppress popular aspiration in order to maintain ‘calm’ which has resulted in the death of thousands of innocent people. This article argues that this situation is untenable in view of the oft-claimed democratic credentials of India and hence argues for AFSPA’s annulment.

Policy essay on “Policing the homeless…”

in the fall of 2005, the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) pilot tested a place-based enforcement effort—the Main Street Project—to deal with home-lessness in a downtown section known as Skid Row through the use of fines and citations. After anecdotal evidence of its success, the LAPD instituted a large-scale version—the Safer Cities Initiative (SCI)—in September 2006, which placed 50 full-time officers on the street in downtown Los Angeles who were charged with breaking up homeless encampments, issuing citations, and making arrests. After clearing out specific areas, the officers maintained their presence for 7 days and then moved to other parts of downtown. The LAPD’s intervention was limited to the Central Police Division, which is located in downtown Los Angeles close to Dodger Stadium, the Staples Center, and the Los Angeles Convention Center, whereas four other adjacent divisions (Northeast, Rampart, Hollenbeck, and Newton) formed the comparison sites that received no official police intervention. The findings showed that (a) the intervention was associated with reductions in nuisance, property, and violent crimes; (b) there was no evidence that crime was displaced to (and thus increased in) the other four police divisions; and (c) there was some spillover effect such that comparable reductions for all three crimes were observed in the nonexperimental divisions ad-jacent to the Central Division, which had no apparent concerted police effort. In all, the results of this carefully executed study demonstrate once again that it is what the police do that matters in targeting places for crime treatment and eventual crime reduction (Sherman, 1995).

*Poster 100: Health Related Quality of Life in Caregivers of Individuals With Dementia From Colombia, South America

Objective: To assess health-related quality of life of Colombian caregivers of individuals with dementia. Design: Cross sectional study. Setting: Central Police Hospital in Bogota, Colombia. Participants: 99 caregivers of individuals with dementia and 95 healthy controls. Interventions: Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures: The Medical Outcome 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), a self-report measure composed of 8 component areas: physical health problems, pain, role limitations due to physical problems or due to emotional problems, emotional well-being, social functioning, energy/fatigue, and general health perceptions.

Making Heritage in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Central Police Station Compound

AbstractThis article is a case study of state–society–capital conflicts over the preservation of the Central Police Station (CPS) compound in Hong Kong during 2003–08. The conflict was between two fundamentally different approaches to urban space: a cultural economy approach that took culture and space as a source of economic profit, and an opposition discourse of preservation that emphasized cultural, historical and humanistic values as an end. The struggle turned out to be a moderate success for anti-commercialism. Drawing on and extending the notions of collective memory and spatial politics, this article examines how the various civil society actors, in their struggle against commercialism, sought to define and enhance the cultural value of the site through a variety of discourses and practices relating to history and space. It addresses the specific question of why and how certain constructions of collective memory succeed (or fail) to work with certain places in particular instances. The study shows that memories of the CPS compound contained both state-associated and people-associated accounts, between which the former prevailed. The state-associated account was embedded in a familiar, hegemonic story about Hong Kong, which, via an abstract process of symbolization around the notion of the rule of law, successfully turned the compound into an iconic symbol of identification for the city. Beyond this, the civil society actors sought also to generate a sense of lived space associated with the people, and the outcome was mixed.

HIV/AIDS and forces

Sir, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the most disastrous disease of its time for every segment of society. It is all the more dangerous for the forces (the people who are engaged in jobs where physical fitness is a prerequisite-Punjab police, Central police, Paramilitary forces and Army). Ever since the first HIV case in our armed forces was discovered in a soldier returning from a UN mission in 1992, the number of HIV-positive personnel in the armed forces has grown to 6,180 in a force of 12 lakhs.(1) The situation is the worst among the Central police and Para military forces.(1) In continuing with our effort to monitor the prevalence of HIV infection in these forces, we report the presence of infection in 712 personnel of all the forces (Punjab police 670; Central police and Para military forces 30; Army 12) who visited Integrated Counceling and Testing Centre (ICTC) of the Govt. Medical College during 2006. Of these 712 people, 660 (92.7%) were direct walk-ins and 52 (7.3%) were referred to ICTC with a suspicion of HIV infection because of the presence of HIV indicator diseases. We observed that during that year, 3.9% (22/712) of the personnel were HIV positive, which showed a gradual increase from HIV prevalence observed during 2005 (2.5%).(2) Although the difference between the rates observed in the 2 years was statistically insignificant (P>0.05), this is not of much importance. A comparison of the risk factors of the 2 years showed that during 2006, all the 22 seropositive cases had multiple sex partners and in two cases there was history of IVDU (Intravenous Drug Use) as well. No personnel were infected through contaminated blood or syringes/needles. This is in contrast to the findings in 2005 where positivity through the sexual route was 82.7% (6/7) and through blood transfusion was 17.3% (1/7). This shows an awareness about HIV/AIDS but very low use of safe sex practices 2.8% (20/712). A study conducted by experts under the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) reported that the Central police and Para military forces were not properly equipped to handle the serious problem of HIV/AIDS and interventions were ad hoc and uncoordinated. They also observed that the attitude towards HIV-positive personnel whose numbers were increasing every day was quite discriminating.(1) AIDS spreads its net mainly because it is treated as a stigma and such a mind set only leads to the proliferation of the problem. The Armed Forces need to accept HIV/AIDS and not hide it. This could be done by strengthening their organization and institutional structure and by sensitizing the personnel of the forces to all aspects of the problem.

Fates of European Heritage in Post-Colonial Contexts: Political Economy of Memory and Forgetting in Hong Kong

While heritage is always contested, colonial heritage in post-colonial contexts is particularly sensitive and political. A love-hate relationship with European heritages has generated tactics in selective remembering and forgetting concerning colonial heritage preservation and valorisation in post-colonial societies. Based on an analysis of official documents, tourist promotion materials, newspaper and media reports and site visits, this paper examines the fates of three colonial heritage sites in Hong Kong, namely that of the Marine Police Headquarter Compound, the Star Ferry Pier and Queen’s Pier, and the Central Police Station Compound. The three heritage tales demonstrate how these sites are not merely remains of the city’s colonial past, but lively space where contemporary power struggles are played out, and local identities and interests are negotiated among different players from the state, business communities and the civil society. Together, they also illustrate how colonial heritage is a boxing podium where the citizenry fight for changes in hitherto non-democratic and profit-obsessed planning governance that in itself is also a colonial legacy.

Multi-criteria decision making for urban built heritage conservation: application of the analytic hierarchy process

Conservation of built cultural heritage is never an easy task, especially when the subject heritage is located in a heavily developed urban area. The enduring controversy over the conservation scheme of the former Central Police Station Compound in Hong Kong has highlighted the difficulties in achieving satisfying decisions in conservation projects by way of private sector participation. The crux of the deadlock lay in the different perceptions of the project stakeholders towards the relative importance of different decision-making criteria. In fact, many challenges of this kind associated with built heritage conservation can be modelled as multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). The main objective of this study is to present an MCDM model on the criteria for decision making, which can have many applications in heritage conservation decision making. To this end, a preliminary MCDM framework for project selection is developed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), which has been widely applied to MCDM in many other fields. Using this framework, 20 local building professionals were interviewed to solicit their views on the relative importance of the decision criteria. It is contended that the AHP provides a scientific approach to the quantification of the relative importance of various decision-influencing criteria. In addition, the use of the AHP will help the government and community identify projects with the best potential to deliver satisfactory outcomes in a project selection process that is not based simply on the highest bid.

Stalinism ‘From Below’?: Social Preconditions of and Popular Responses to the Great Terror

This article engages with recent western historiography on Stalinism, in particular the origins and nature of the Great Terror. I seek to contextualise the material on the Terror by re‐examining the relationship between state and society in Stalinist Russia. The partial opening of the former Soviet archives and the new ‘cultural turn’ have in many ways altered our perception of this complex relationship by revealing ‘a polyphony of voices’ among the Soviet peoples, though at the same time not under‐estimating the awesome power of the state. As for the Terror itself, I argue that Stalin, in collaboration with central political and police elites, undoubtedly directed the mass repressions, but the targeting of communist officials, ‘alien’ ethnic minorities and social marginals garnered a measure of popular support and input. Hence, I conclude that the terror process should be analysed from a broader social perspective, while recognising the determining hand of Stalin and the centre.

Haematogenous dissemination of tuberculous lymphadentitis

To determine whether Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection spreads through the blood to different lymph-node groups in patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis. Prospective analytical study. The patients were recruited, managed and followed at the lymphodenopathy clinic, Central Police Hospital, Burr, Khartoum, Sudan. Fifty two sequential patients were enrolled. Thirty patients with FNAC diagnosis of tuberculous lymphadenitis and positive PCR for M. tuberculosis complex had a mean age of 26.9 +/- 11.2 years and similar male, female affection. Nine patients with FNAC tuberculous lymphadenitis, but negative PCR had a slightly higher mean age (32.6 +/- 18.2 years) with similar male: female proportions. Patients with reactive lymphadenopathy (9/52) were older than patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis with a mean age of 45 +/- 24.6 years. None of the patients were positive for HIV or had clinical or radiological evidence of pulmonary tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis DNA was detected in the blood samples of 30/39 (77%) patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis, but in none of the cases with reactive or malignant lymphadenopathy. The presence of M. tuberculosis DNA correlated strongly to multiple lymph-node involvement [OR (odds ratio) = 96.7, 95% confidence interval (CI) 9.0 - 1,039] and to caseating-granulomatous and predominantly necrotic cytomorphological categories [OR = 70, 95% confidence interval (CI) 7.0 - 703]. M. tuberculosis most probably disseminates through the blood from one node group to the other in patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis.

A szakmaközi együttműködés lehetőségei a szolnoki kistérségben egy családon belüli erőszak kutatás tükrében

A családon belüli erőszak obun negatív társadalmi jelenség, amebr élénken foglalkozt4a a közvéleményt, fokozott hírértékkel bír a médiában, vitákat generál a politika, a jogalkotás és a közvélemény szintén egyaránt A kutatási program egyes elemeinek végrehajtása érzékelhetően erősítette a rendőrkapitányság szakemberei és a szociális munkások közötti együttműködést, javította az intézmények közötti kommunikációt. Kialakultak azok a személyes kapcsolatok amelyek elengedhetetlenek a gyors és összehangolt közös cselekvéshez.

An Overview of the Current Changes of Fire Safety Education and Researches in Central Police University Taiwan

An Overview of the Current Changes of Fire Safety Education and Researches in Central Police University Taiwan

Assault cases in Maiduguri metropolis: A comparative study of police and accident and emergency units′ records

Information on the incidence of assault cases such as armed robbery, fights and house burglaries in most Nigerian cities are usually based on data collected from police records with little or no attempt to tap medical sources of information. The aim of this study was therefore to compare the rate of recording of assault cases in the Maiduguri metropolitan area by the police at the Maiduguri central police station and the Accident and Emergency unit (A and E) of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital. Possible reasons why assault victims report or do not report to the police before seeking for treatment was also investigated. All victims of assault who attended the A and E unit of the hospital over a one year period (2002-2003) were interviewed and relevant data collected in a prepared form. Findings were compared with the record of assault cases within the same period at the Maiduguri central police station. 185 patients presented at A and E with body injuries due to assault during period of study. 108 (58%) informed the police before attending hospital, out of which majority (38.9%) claimed an 'instinctive reaction to do so' as the reason for informing the police. A significant proportion (61%) of those that did not inform the police claimed that the feeling that 'nothing will come out of it' as the reason. Only 41% of cases reported to the police were recorded. There was a tendency by the police to record cases where gun was used or the victim was a female. The true picture of violence in most Nigerian cities can better be assessed by collecting data from both the relevant A and E department as well as from the police. The need for the populace to develop confidence and trust in the police cannot be overemphasised.

Concentrations of Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, and Zinc in Young Female Hair with Different Body Mass Indexes in Taiwan

Department of Holistic Education Center St. John’s and St. Mary’s Institute of Technology, 499, Section 4, Tam-King Road, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Department of Forensic Science, Central Police University, 56, Shu-Jen Road, Kueishan Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China, Mackay Junior College of Medical Management and Nursing, 92 ShengChing Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, and Department of Food Science, Nutrition, and Nutraceutical Biotechnology, Shin Chien University, 70, Ta-Chi Street, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China (Received July 2, 2004; Accepted October 18, 2004)

Urban crime trends and patterns in Ghana: The case of Accra

The study examined the broad crime trends and patterns, and the conditions under which crimes flourish, the crime incidence rates per 1,000 of population, and crime among the four police divisions of Accra, Ghana. Where crimes clustered the most and the times some crimes were committed were examined using the official police data. The study suggests that crime in Accra has been accentuated by rigid centralization of government bureaucracy, the nature of Ghana's economy, routine activities, lifestyles, and opportunities fostered by social change. Overall, the Accra Central Police Division recorded the highest volume of crimes, followed by the Nima, Kaneshie, and Kpeshie Divisions. The highest property offenses were recorded within twelve miles of the city center—the area most congested and heavily concentrated with socio-economic and routine activities. Calls for the adoption of situational crime prevention methods and strategies to reduce the incidence of crime in Accra have been made.

Erratum/Correction of Petersen HD, Morentin B, Callado LF, Meana JJ, Idoyage MI. Assessment of the Quality of Medical Documents Issued in Central Police Stations in Madrid, Spain: The Doctor's Role in the Prevention of Ill-Treatment. J Forensic Sci 2002 March;47(2):293–298

<b>Erratum/Correction</b> of Petersen HD, Morentin B, Callado LF, Meana JJ, Idoyage MI. Assessment of the Quality of Medical Documents Issued in Central Police Stations in Madrid, Spain: The Doctor's Role in the Prevention of Ill-Treatment. J Forensic Sci 2002 March;47(2):293–298

Assessment of the Quality of Medical Documents Issued in Central Police Stations in Madrid, Spain: The Doctor's Role in the Prevention of III-Treatment

Doctors sometimes assess allegations of ill-treatment. Reports from such examinations may be used if the practice of the police is to be appraised: they should therefore be relevant and exhaustive. We assessed, retrospectively, the quality of 318 medical documents concerning 100 persons held in central police stations in Madrid, Spain, from 1991 to 1994. In 71 documents concerning 44 persons the doctors quoted the detainee as alleging ill-treatment. Most of the documents appeared to lack significant information on history of ill-treatment and description of the clinical examination. Of 34 conclusions, ten were unacceptable and the premises were insufficient in 16. These observations point to weaknesses and needs for improvements in the fulfillment of the role of doctors as safeguards of the rights of detainees. Medical examinations should be conducted outside the control of police officers, by a neutral doctor using a check-list/protocol. The quality of the report should fulfill international standards.