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6 Police Prac. & Res. 1 (2005)

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Police Practice and Research,
Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 1-2






From the Editor-in-Chief





Highlights of the Issue
PPR's first issue of 2005 presents a series of articles based on empirical research which
address several important issues for the police in this country and elsewhere in the
world: police and farm crime, analysis of police group aggressiveness, multi-tasking
behaviors of general duty police officers, job commitment of tertiary educated police
officers, and negative impact of police occupational culture.
  In'The  Policing of Farm Crime,'Joseph F. Donnermeyer and Elaine Barclay present
the findings of a study on the response of rural police to property-related victimizations
on farms in New South Wales, Australia. The findings highlight problems of policing
in rural communities where farm and ranch communities  'cling to traditional values
and a web of informal social relationships.' According to the authors, police response
to an increasing number of calls for service related to farm crime will continue to be
'influenced by local traditions and established patterns of interaction among people
living in rural communities.' John D. McCluskey, William Terrill, and Eugene A.
Paoline, III are concerned with the issue of 'Peer Group Aggressiveness and the Use of
Coercion in Police-Suspect Encounters.' They maintain that 'officer decision making
is shaped, in some way, by peer group attitudes.' The authors are of the opinion that
'the way to affect change in a police organization is through small groups rather than
more  global organizational levels or at the individual micro level.'
  'Multi-tasking Behaviors of General Duty  Police Officers' by G. S. Anderson,
A. Courtney, D. B. Plecas, and C. Chamberlin is an examination of 'the multi-tasking
behaviors of general duty police officers' which drew public attention following a
lawsuit against a municipal police department in British Columbia. The researchers
indicate that'the ability to perform the bona fide occupational requirements of a police
officer will require the individual to be able to effectively process information, and
multi-task'which demands that'adequate time and attention must be paid to the train-
ing of the individual tasks prior to performing them in combination.' In 'Tertiary
Education, Commitment,   and Turnover in Police Work,' David Jones, Liz Jones, and
Tim  Prenzler discuss the results of a case study of Queensland police officers which
'showed no significant differences in turnover rates for degree holders and non-degree
holders.' The authors conclude that 'there is no cause for alarm over police tertiary
education and job commitment'   although 'human  resource managers  will need to

ISSN 1561-4263 print/ISSN 1477-271X online/05/010001-02 © 2005 Taylor & Francis Group Ltd
DOI: 10.1080/1561426052000343071

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