Station House Research Articles

Training Effects on Sub Inspector Performance in Police Station Management

This study investigates the multifaceted impact of resource management, man management, and record management training within the context of basic training on Sub Inspectors' role performance in police station management in Kerala. The research involves gathering data from fifty-three Sub-Inspectors of the Kerala Police and employs a quantitative methodology. Results indicate a significant positive correlation between the incorporation of station house management training and the observed improvements in Sub-Inspectors' performance attributes. The training interventions were found to foster a proactive approach to problem-solving, high victim satisfaction levels, and improved community relations. Their capacity for situation analysis and rapid retrieval of critical information was notably improved, contributing to sound judgment and decision-making in complex scenarios. The findings emphasize the pivotal role of training in enhancing the effectiveness of Sub-Inspectors of police in their respective roles

Risk Analysis of Fire and Explosion of Hydrogen-Gasoline Hybrid Refueling Station Based on Accident Risk Assessment Method for Industrial System

Hydrogen–gasoline hybrid refueling stations can minimize construction and management costs and save land resources and are gradually becoming one of the primary modes for hydrogen refueling stations. However, catastrophic consequences may be caused as both hydrogen and gasoline are flammable and explosive. It is crucial to perform an effective risk assessment to prevent fire and explosion accidents at hybrid refueling stations. This study conducted a risk assessment of the refueling area of a hydrogen–gasoline hybrid refueling station based on the improved Accident Risk Assessment Method for Industrial Systems (ARAMIS). An improved probabilistic failure model was used to make ARAMIS more applicable to hydrogen infrastructure. Additionally, the accident consequences, i.e., jet fires and explosions, were simulated using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods replacing the traditional empirical model. The results showed that the risk levels at the station house and the road near the refueling area were 5.80 × 10−5 and 3.37 × 10−4, respectively, and both were within the acceptable range. Furthermore, the hydrogen dispenser leaked and caused a jet fire, and the flame ignited the exposed gasoline causing a secondary accident, considered the most hazardous accident scenario. A case study was conducted to demonstrate the practicability of the methodology. This method is believed to provide trustworthy decisions for establishing safe distances from dispensers and optimizing the arrangement of the refueling area.

Research on Cost Control of External Curtain Wall Engineering of Small and Medium-sized Station House

Comparative analysis is made on the cost indexes, subdivisions and quantities of the external curtain wall works of seven small and medium-sized station buildings in a high-speed railway project, and the influence of the price of main materials, the form of external curtain wall and the keel of external curtain wall on the cost of the external curtain wall works of small and medium-sized station buildings is discussed to find out the key factors for the cost control of the external curtain wall works, provide the basis for the design, and improve the coordination of the designers and the budget estimate preparers, it provides a reference for reasonably controlling and determining the cost of the outer curtain wall project of small and medium-sized station buildings.

Analysis on Key Process Control of Continuous Wall Reinforcement Cage Segmental Hoisting Construction under High-Speed Railway Station House

Analysis on Key Process Control of Continuous Wall Reinforcement Cage Segmental Hoisting Construction under High-Speed Railway Station House

How Do Police Officers Perceive the Challenges Posed by Covid-19: A Qualitative Case Study from Jammu Region in India

Police is an agency characterized by multi-functionality, to handle civic problems and to fight crime like robbery, murder, etc. As they are among the first ones to respond to an emergency, they have been classified as public safety personnel (PSP) such as medical officials and firefighters. The police personnel struggle hard to handle issues related to law enforcement functions, which consumes the bulk of their time. This paper discusses the main challenges faced by J & K Police officials (In incharge Police posts, Station House Officers and newly recruited Sub-Inspectors) posted in the Jammu region, during COVID-19. Such a study was needed due to the unanticipated situation created by COVID-19 and the unprecedented scale to which it affected people in general and front-line workers in particular. A qualitative approach has been used to present findings. Results show that during COVID-19, J & K police personnel have pursued their day-to-day activities quite zealously. Even if they do not have a day off and cannot celebrate festivals like other people, they are contented with whatever they have been able to do for society at large. Their families are supportive and do understand the toughness of their job, though at times, their preoccupation with a 24 × 7 job puts their personal relations at stake. They have efficient coping strategies. Despite experiencing physical and mental fatigue, they consider serving the nation as their prime duty. Health issues are common, but ignored by them. However, handling the public and keeping them indoors has been the biggest challenge faced by them. Many of them have reported the arrogance of the public, including the educated people, when asked for maintaining social distance and the reasons for coming out. This experience, coupled with extra efforts to be made by them in a crisis situation disheartens them.

A Simplified Calculation Model for the Rail Layer in Harbinxi Railway Station

Considering the particularity of the station house withstanding dynamic load as well as the characteristics of frame structure, the discrete analysis was used to study the finite element structure of the station house. By comparative analysis on various element simulation approaches, this paper studied the rational approach to simplify the model so as to achieve a more realistic stress status for computation results.

Examining Community Participation in Crime Prevention in Rural Peshawar, Pakistan

Crime is a common phenomenon in rural and urban sectors, yet both the settings are not uniformly exposed to it. Indigenous communities’ engagement in crime deterrence activities has now appeared as an alternative and effective approach towards crime prevention and security maintenance around the globe. Like urban areas, the rural areas in Pakistan are also notorious with all kinds of criminal acts. Scarcity of required updated equipment, resources and poor infrastructure is the main bottleneck that has circumscribed the police capacity to detect and prevent criminal acts in rural societies. Subsequently, alarming crime rate and ineffective functioning of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) has led rural sectors to adopt community policing strategy to protect the society from potential criminal threats. Considering the aforementioned debate, this study was designed to examine community participation in crime prevention in rural areas of Peshawar district of Pakistan. This study has incorporated social capital theory to analyze the prospects of community policing in crime control. Mixed data collection method was used to find out innate capacity of crime prevention of local rural communities of Peshawar. The researcher adopted simple random sampling technique where 370 respondents were selected for information collection. In-depth interviews were also conducted with Station House Officers (SHOs), to find out more about the situation of the criminal activities in the area. Comprehensive survey was conducted, and the collected data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Markov chain analysis. It was found that the study area was vulnerable to multifarious criminal acts. Ranging from drug trafficking, violent conflicts, and aggravated assault to the theft being conspicuously prevalent in the rural sector and agricultural commodities were mostly stolen during harvest period. The results validate that dearth of developed infrastructure, inadequate police presence, and government reluctance in providing job opportunities to the emerging youth bulge has unpleasant the crime situation in the research area. Although local community policing was found as an effective strategy to deter crime from the past five years, unfortunately it lacks the institutional capacity to deter crime at broader level. Poor allocation of funds by the government and no surveillance of higher officials were creating hindrance in effective implementation of community policing. This study also found a communication gap between LAEs and local community because of police infectiveness and departmental trust deficit. It was concluded that despite countrywide adoption of community policing strategy in Pakistan, its rural sector is drastically lagging behind in implementation. Hence, the study suggests skill development and training programs that will not only absorb unemployed youth but will also help to reduce crime rate. Moreover, inclusive public-police partnership is mandatory to bridge the trust gap and to secure peace and security. Similarly, through effective socialization regarding crime awareness by all social agents such as family, schools, neighborhood and religious institutions, community can reduce deviant acts can promote compliance behaviors of its members. Infrastructure such as good roads, electricity, CCTV and communication facilities should be developed by the government and private organizations without excluding community members who constitute the social capital. As, developed infrastructure not only act as a buttress to socio-economic development of any society but also help in crime prevention and deterrence.

Family Reintegration of Homeless Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Case Series Reflecting Opportunities and Challenges

Persons with Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD) are overrepresented in homeless populations. Rehabilitation needs of persons with IDD, who are homeless, are diverse; one of their most important emotional needs is the desire to be reunited with their families. 12 adolescents from Children’s Home for the Mentally Retarded under the Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Karnataka—were referred to the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services unit of a tertiary mental health institute for vocational training in 2016. Over the next 2 years, 5 of them were reintegrated with their family. Attempts were made at obtaining information about family from the adolescents despite challenges in language, communication and cognitive abilities. Various resources were utilized for reintegration, such as the use of Google maps to locate and mark all places recalled; access to the details of station house officers across websites to contact police departments; the utilisation of websites such as those of telecom providers, Election Commission of India, khoyapaya.gov.in; obtainment of contact details of community and religious leaders; and use of video call and WhatsApp. Expressive language deficits, greater severity of intellectual disability, longer duration of separation from family were significant barriers to attempts at reintegration. There is a need to make persistent attempts and repeated attempts to reintegrate homeless persons with IDD, even in the face of initial failure, to obtain any family details, and to use all resources at disposal including technology, in addition to fulfilling other rehabilitation needs which are in the foreground.

Determinants of Organizational Performance: A Case of Punjab Police

In the last three decades, the security issues have been raised in the state of the Punjab (Pakistan) which ultimately leads to the breakdown of the country’s economy. However, the purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of the political interference on the performance of Punjab police (Pakistan) with the moderating role of organizational support. To elicit the findings, a total of 159 survey questionnaires were compiled from station house officers (SHOs) of Punjab police (Pakistan). Furthermore, this study has applied PLS-SEM technique to analyze the data. The findings reveal that a negatively significant effect of political interference on the performance of Punjab police (Pakistan). Moreover, the findings also showed the significant moderating effect of organizational support in the instance of political interference.

“The Greatest Thrill I Get is When I Hear a Criminal Say, ‘Yes, I Did it’”: Race and the Third Degree in New Orleans, 1920–1945

On May 11, 1938, two New Orleans policemen entered the Astoria Restaurant, marched to the kitchen, and approached Loyd D. T. Washington, a 41-year-old African American cook. They informed Washington that they would be taking him to the First Precinct station for questioning, although they assured the cook that he need not change his clothes and “should be right back” to the “Negro restaurant,” where he had worked for 3 years. Immediately after arriving at the station house, police officers “surrounded” Washington, showed him a photograph of a man, and announced that he had killed a white man in Yazoo City, Mississippi, 20 years earlier. When Washington insisted that he did not know the man in the photograph, that he had never been to (or even heard of) Yazoo City, and that he had been in the army at the time of the murder, the law enforcers confined him in a cell, although they had no warrant for his arrest and did not charge him with any crime. The following day, a detective brought him to the “show-up room” in the precinct house, where he continued the interrogation and, according to Washington, “tried to make me sign papers stating that I had killed a white man” in Mississippi. As every African American New Orleanian knew, the show-up (or line-up) room was the setting where detectives tortured suspects and extracted confessions. “You know you killed him, Nigger,” the detective roared. Washington, however, refused to confess, and the detective began punching him in the face, knocking out five of his teeth. After Washington crumbled to the floor, the detective repeatedly kicked him and broke one of his ribs. The beating continued for an hour, until other policemen restrained the detective, saying “give him a chance to confess and if he doesn't you may start again.” But Washington did not confess, and the violent interrogation began anew. A short time later, another police officer interrupted the detective, telling him “do not kill this man in here, after all he is wanted in Yazoo City.” Bloodied and writhing in pain, Washington asked to contact his family, but the request was ignored. Because he had not been formally charged with a crime, New Orleans law enforcers believed that Washington had no constitutional protection again self-incrimination or coercive interrogation and no right to an arraignment or bail, and they had no obligation to contact his relatives or to provide medical care for him.

Elephants in the Station House: Serial Crimes, Wrongful Convictions, and Expanding Wrongful Conviction Analysis to Include Police Investigation

In this article we advocate that the study of miscarriages of justice be expanded to view the entirety of police crime investigation as a source of wrongful convictions. We set this proposal in a framework of how the inductive innocence paradigm was developed and analyze how the term “causation” is used in legal, scientific and case analysis. We then explore a subject not yet addressed by wrongful conviction scholarship but that may confront an investigator: whether an unsolved crime is the work of a serial criminal and whether a suspect is the serial criminal. We examine a convenience sample of forty-four exonerees convicted of crimes committed by thirty serial criminals. The analysis is aimed at opening up a discussion of the kind of complexity that investigators face in hard-to-solve cases.

Underground rockfall stability analysis using the numerical manifold method

The present study applies the numerical manifold method (NMM) as a tool to investigate the rockfall hazard in underground engineering. The crack evolution technique with crack initiation and propagation criterion, which has been successfully applied to handle cracking problems in rocks, is used in this study. A rockbolt element is introduced, which is first validated by a simple case. The mechanism of the rockbolt in reinforcing a layered rock mass is then investigated through a four-layered rock beam example. The developed NMM is then used to investigate the rockfall instability caused by either natural joints or mining induced fractures in an underground power station house or a tunnel. The results illustrate that the developed NMM can not only capture the entire dynamic process of the rockfall but also locate the keyblock successfully. As such, corresponding reinforcement methods can be chosen reasonably.

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Differences in Nominalization between Korean and English and Their Implications for Translation

The Criminal Procedure is given two tasks; one is the necessities of discovering the substantial truth including arrest and punishment of criminals, protection of sufferers and maintenance of public order. The other is the requirement for the security of human rights, which protected the human rights of the suspected and the accused from being punished with committing no crime by the potential misjudgement of human being who was not god. There occur a conflict between the two tasks throughout the whole area in the criminal procedure. A primary purpose of bail can be said to implement the ideology of embodiment of justice and to protect human rights in criminal justice system. A major justification of bail was that the bail procedure can be employed in courts as a way to avoid the probable confinement of innocent persons, who are falsely accused. Another justification of bail was that the historical legal doctrine. Presumption of Innocent, would not be appropriately implemented in judicial processing without a bail provision. However the results of empirical analysis showed that the bail provision of a person before indictment in Korea has been implemented in a limited scope, and that the provision has been improperly applied in several ways. This study recommends that more efforts should be given to correct the problem on the implementation and application of bail provision of a person before indictment in Criminal Procedure Law. This Study suggests that it is necessary to enlarge the scope of application of bail. Bail shall be available even for the suspects, if it is certain that they will be appear at courts on the appointed date. It is necessary to develope alternative methods-Release on personal recognizance, Conditional release, Station house Citation Release-for the allowance of bail in addition to the traditional method-Monetary bail. It is necessary to provide the judge with detailed guides, which can be adopted when the judge decide the amount of the bail bond. This Study suggests that the amount of the bail bond shall be considered as a way for poor defendants to prepare the bail money.

Coupled Vibration Analysis of Water Turbine Generator Unit and Hydropower Station House

The dynamic characteristics of shaft system in water turbine generating set and hydropower house structure is investigated by using the APDL procedure in ANSYS. The coupled vibration model which contains unit piers, hydropower house structure and water turbine generating set is developed. In this model, the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of the supporting structure (radial bearing) in water turbine generating set and the flexibility of unit piers and hydropower house structure are all considered. Through the revolving periodic transient results of the former four generating sets, the dynamic response of the shaft system in water turbine generating set and the dynamic characteristics of the hydropower house structure are analyzed. The interaction between the hydropower house structure and the water turbine generating set is discussed, which provide useful references to anti-vibration design of the hydropower house structure.

Integrated control system responses during load rejection transient for Lungmen ABWR Plant

The RETRAN model of Lungmen ABWR Plant was used to evaluate the load rejection with bypass transient of the start-up test program. There are three major control systems implemented in Lungmen RETRAN Model, including recirculation flow control, feedwater control, steam bypass and pressure control system. The responses of the control systems are important to help the reactor operate smoothly in the test, and credited to mitigate the transient impact. A brief description about the Lungmen RETRAN Model and the design feature of control systems is included in this article. The predicted analysis of load rejection test was conducted by using RETRAN-3D code to verify the dynamic responses of the reactor and control systems to protective trips in the generator, and also to demonstrate the capability of the plant to withstand against a generator load rejection without reactor scram. The analysis results show that the reactor has not been scrammed due to the proper control system responses, and sustained stable operation under the condition of the minimum station house load. The sensitivity studies show that there will be no significant pressurization in load rejection transient as long as activating bypass capacity functions in time. While, the sensitivity study cases of other settings in the mitigation facilities have no outstanding impact on the system response.

“Color, Creed, and Character”

Due to heavy rains, the industrial canal that runs by Pop's café threatens to overflow and spill into it and the one-room station house next door. Pop organizes a work party to place sandbags around the two buildings. Despite their best efforts, the water from the canal floods the buildings destroying much of their interiors. Unable to secure a loan from the bank to pay for repairs and purchase new restaurant equipment, Pop contemplates selling his café. Just before Pop closes the deal, however, he learns that the company owning the canal has offered to settle the damage suit that he brought against it, sparing him from the need to sell the cafe. Pop learns from this ordeal who his true friends are.

Lady Barker, 1831?–1911

A colonial rather than a New Zealand writer, Lady Barker nevertheless occupies a distinct place in nineteenth-century New Zealand literature, thanks to her lively account of station life in the pioneering period, Station Life in New Zealand. Lady Barker was born Mary Anne Stewart in Jamaica, where her father was a colonial official. During her infancy and young adulthood she travelled to England several times, where, as she records in an autobiographical chapter in Colonial Memories, ‘an old gypsy woman’ told her fortune, predicting that she would ‘never be rich’ and that she would ‘wander up and down the earth.’ Both predictions came true. Lady Barker never became wealthy, but she travelled all over the British Empire, leaving fresh, readable accounts of her life in places as far apart as New Zealand and Trinidad, Western Australia and Natal. In 1852 Lady Barker married George Barker, a soldier with whom she had two sons. The marriage appears to have been a happy one, but was marred by separation, as Barker had to leave England to serve with the British Army in Russia and India. (He was knighted in 1859 for his services during the Mutiny). At the end of 1860 Lady Barker joined her husband in India. Her stay was a short one, as Barker died there the next year. Lady Barker returned to England a widow, where she lived quietly with her family. This peaceful, conventional English existence came to an end in 1865, when Lady Barker married a young New Zealand sheepfarmer, Frederick Napier Broome. She took what she was later to describe as ‘the wild and really almost wicked step’ of leaving her children in England and going with Broome to New Zealand, where Broome planned to buy a sheep station. After a long, stormy voyage, the pair arrived in Lyttelton in October 1865 and made the trek over the Port Hills to the new city of Christchurch. There Lady Barker noted the ‘very practical style and tone’ of life and the ‘independence in bearing’ of the people, especially of servants (this last was a theme to which Lady Barker, who had a very English sense of class, returned more than once). It was in Christchurch, too, where the couple stayed for several months, that Lady Barker gave birth to her third son, who did not live long. In 1866 the couple moved to the sheep station, Steventon, in the foothills of the Southern Alps, that Broome had bought with a partner. The station house was called Broomielaw, and it was from Broomielaw that Lady Barker wrote most of the letters that later formed the basis of Station Life in New Zealand.

Battalion Chief James Scott of the Lynchburg Fire Department

James Scott, one of two sector commanders at the Lynchburg (Virginia) Fire Department, is about to retire. Ever since his promotion to that position, he had tried to inculcate a new management style in the department. Where there had once been a rigid, paramilitary hierarchy, Scott had attempted to create a team-based environment that empowered each fire fighter to do his or her job without having to report to their immediate supervisor first. The story of Scott's management style is interwoven with the story of an actual fire that took place in Lynchburg in 1996. That story reveals the high degree of stress, uncertainty, and danger to which a fire fighter is subjected. The environment of the fireground is very different from that of the station house; the fire fighters must immediately make the transition from the relatively relaxed and informal milieu of the latter, where individuals are free to question the decisions and actions of their colleagues, to the highly structured and hierarchical environment of the former, where both civilians' and fire fighters' lives hang in the balance. The decision points in the case explore Scott's philosophy and the changes he has made, and challenge the student to consider how to sustain the momentum of such changes.

In the Station House After Dickerson

Author(s): Weisselberg, Charles D. | Abstract: The article explores law enforcement compliance with Miranda in the wake of Dickerson and other recent cases. During the past decade, police officers in California have been taught that Miranda establishes a non-constitutional rule of evidence that police are free to disregard to obtain impeachment statements or other evidence. The practice has become so well established in California that it has acquired its own moniker, questioning outside By placing Miranda on a secure constitutional footing, Dickerson seems to undercut the theory that supports this practice. This article collects training materials used by police departments to explain the holding in Dickerson and recent decisions from the California Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals. The article concludes that the prospect of civil rights liability may, more than Dickerson, lead officers to comply with Miranda, though the practice of violating Miranda will only end if supervisors in the different police departments inculcate a culture of respect for Miranda.