Ever since the Canadian prairies were first settled and the Mounties marched west to establish and maintain law and order, the names of individual ...

Security forms an important component of the way international relations are played out. After Independence in 1947, India followed a policy of non...

Landpower, defined here as "the ability -- by threat, force, or occupation -- to exploit control over land, resources, and people", offers policy-m...

The compelling story of how and why modern ocean lifeguarding emerged on the New Jersey shore is told through 298 rare, unpublished, primary source...

Firefighters are the unsung local heroes of every community. They protect our towns and cities, risk their lives, and give up their free time when ...

Following soon after the Japanese surrender in World War II, the whole country of Malaya was once more turned upside down and the lives of the peop...

As part of a larger scheme to regulate drugs and other controlled substances, federal law prohibits the cultivation, distribution, and possession o...

The boundary between public and private policing is messy and complex. Police executives deal with some aspect of it almost every day. Private inve...

Midnight, April 5, 1970. Minutes after a red Pontiac with two men in it was stopped, four young California Highway Patrolmen lay dead of gunshot wo...

Although the 9-1-1 system has been an unqualified success story for more than 30 years, changes in the public's use of technology, the saturation o...

Trafficking in persons, or human trafficking, refers to the subjection of men, women, and children to exploitative conditions that can be tantamoun...

This book provides new research on police. Chapter One examines if newspaper reporting of crime in a given jurisdiction affects the levels of racia...

We live in a rapidly changing society that is driven by higher and higher levels of technological advancement. New technologies are creating greate...

Police psychology is a specialised field of psychology addressing issues specific to police personnel and other public safety workers. Police psych...

In most Soviet successor states, the police (militia) are among the least trusted government agencies. The police are frequently seen as representa...

Hong Kong, 1918. A tranquil place compared to war-torn Europe. But on the morning of the 22 January, a running battle through the streets of Wanch...

There seems to be a tendency to consider police crime as a result of bad practice, lack of resources or mismanagement, rather than acts of criminal...

In an age where electronic communications are changing in front of our eyes, the potential to do harm using mobile phones, satellite telephones and...

In recent years, racial profiling has drawn the attention of state and federal governments. In this book, racial profiling is defined as the practi...

Harry Stallworthy spent 20 years in the Canadian North with the RCMP. While stationed at Bache Peninsula, Stallworthy led one of the longest arctic...

The physical and mental demands associated with firefighting and other emergency operations exceed those of virtually any other occupation. When yo...

In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at...

Geopolitics is witnessing a flux not seen in decades, treading an uncertain path in the hope to arrive at a new equilibrium. India’s status in this...

Security is one of the key pillars on which a stable society is built, and which guarantees the rights of its members. One of the modern strategies...

This account of the struggle to bring law and order to a city rich with gold rush money, at odds with Mexican bandits, and teeming with forty-niner...

Fighting to survive on a police patrol launch during a typhoon, and investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee camp. Battling rio...

Today, more than 12,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States use conducted energy devices (CEDs) as an alternative to conventional physica...

Energy has been described as "that which makes things go". Air conditioning accounts for 1/3 of the total energy use in society. Further, ventilati...

This engaging collection of verse captures the history and experience of the Mounties from the 1800s to the present day. Ranging from humorous to p...

Nearly 1 million people and $1.5 billion of trade entered the United States through 328 POEs on an average day in fiscal year 2013. CBP, within the...

This book provides an overview of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or poten...

In the early 1990's, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The act was intended to change attitudes toward domestic violence, fost...

Sadly, the threat of violent extremism in America is nothing new. Throughout our history, misguided groups, including international and domestic te...

This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source document that covers wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and...