ACPR Publications

The former Australasian Council for Policing Research (ACPR) published a large number of reports, bulletins and papers.  ANZPAA is pleased to now make available, in a single location, the full back catalogue of publicly available ACPR documents.

 

 

Bulletins

●  ACPR-BU-01

ACPR Bulletin - Number 01 - August 1999

●  ACPR-BU-02

ACPR Bulletin - Number 02 - November 1999

●  ACPR-BU-03

ACPR Bulletin - Number 03 - February 2000

●  ACPR-BU-04

ACPR Bulletin - Number 04 - May 2000

●  ACPR-BU-05

ACPR Bulletin - Number 05 - August 2000

●  ACPR-BU-06

ACPR Bulletin - Number 06 - November 2000

●  ACPR-BU-07

ACPR Bulletin - Number 07 - February 2001

●  ACPR-BU-08

ACPR Bulletin - Number 08 - May 2001

●  ACPR-BU-09

ACPR Bulletin - Number 09 - August 2001

●  ACPR-BU-10

ACPR Bulletin - Number 10 - November 2001

●  ACPR-BU-11

ACPR Bulletin - Number 11 - February 2002

●  ACPR-BU-12

ACPR Bulletin - Number 12 - May 2002

●  ACPR-BU-13

ACPR Bulletin - Number 13 - August 2002

●  ACPR-BU-14

ACPR Bulletin - Number 14 - November 2002

●  ACPR-BU-15

ACPR Bulletin - Number 15 - February 2003

●  ACPR-BU-16

ACPR Bulletin - Number 16 - May 2003

●  ACPR-BU-17

ACPR Bulletin - Number 17 - August 2003

●  ACPR-BU-18

ACPR Bulletin - Number 18 - November 2003

●  ACPR-BU-19

ACPR Bulletin - Number 19 - February 2004

●  ACPR-BU-20

ACPR Bulletin - Number 20 - May 2004

●  ACPR-BU-21

ACPR Bulletin - Number 21 - August 2004

●  ACPR-BU-22

ACPR Bulletin - Number 22 - November 2004

●  ACPR-BU-23

ACPR Bulletin - Number 23 - February 2005

  

 

Current Commentary Series

●  ACPR-CC-02

Identification parades: the perils and pitfalls

●  ACPR-CC-04

Identity crimes: issues for policing (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-CC-05

Issues in civil litigation against police

●  ACPR-CC-06

Livestock theft in Australasia

●  ACPR-CC-07

Police and identity theft victims: preventing further victimisation

●  ACPR-CC-08

Public satisfaction with police contact: part 1 - police initiated contacts

●  ACPR-CC-09

Public satisfaction with police contact: part 2 - self initiated contacts (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-CC-10

Exercise and physical fitness: the impact on work outcomes, cognition, and psychological well-being for police

●  ACPR-CC-11

Barriers and facilitating gactors for women in policing: considerations for making policing an employer of choice

 

 

 

Critical Issues in Policing Series

 ● ACPR-CI-01

Disability Discrimination Act (1992) (Cth): implications for police

 ● ACPR-CI-02

Responding to and preventing sexual harassment in the police organistion

 ● ACPR-CI-03

Deployment of women in policing

 ● ACPR-CI-04

Want to make a bet?: gambling and crime in Australia

 ● ACPR-CI-05

Gangs: current context and implications for Australasian policing

 ● ACPR-CI-06 

The cognitive interview as a tool in Australasian policing

 ● ACPR-CI-07

Early childhood crime prevention: implications for policing

 ● ACPR-CI-08  

Workplace bullying: implications for police organisations

 ● ACPR-CI-09

Dealing with computer evidence: the police perspective

 ● ACPR-CI-10

Psychological debriefing in police organisations

 ● ACPR-CI-11 

Screening for corruption using standard psychological tests of personality: a review of the research evidence

●  ACPR-SR-134.1

The virtual horizon : meeting the law enforcement challenges : developing an Australasian law enforcement strategy for dealing with electronic crime

  

Issue Series

● ACPR-IS-01

Looking to the future: implications of emerging trends for police workforce planning

● ACPR-IS-02

21st century policing: the role of police in the detection, investigation and prosecution of environmental crime

● ACPR-IS-03   

Mental illness in the community: the role of police

● ACPR-IS-04 

Ensuring ethical standards of research: key issues for Australasian policing

● ACPR-IS-05 

Future migration and policing: examining assumptions

● ACPR-IS-06 

Fear of crime: the impact of age, victimisation, perceived vulneralbility to victimisation and neighbourhood characteristics

 

Outcome Series

●  ACPR-OU-01 

Methods in police research 2005: an analysis of police-specific research journals

●  ACPR-OU-02

Burnout and engagement in police recruits: a typology

 

 

Research in Practice Series

●  ACPR-RP-01

Burnout and engagement in probationary police officers: a methodology

  

Report Series 

 

●  ACPR-RS-035 

Community policing in Australia: an appraisal - working paper

●  ACPR-RS-041 

Coordination of forensic science in Australia: final report

●  ACPR-RS-047   

Anti-pursuit / vehicle stopping devices

●  ACPR-RS-056

Drug driving: an assessment of past and current technical developments and consequent legislative accommodation of roadside, and subsequent, drug driving detection - interim report

●  ACPR-RS-073 

Data comparability and problems with selected crime statistics

●  ACPR-RS-089   

Progress report on urgent duty driving high-speed pursuits: offender and pursuit characteristics

●  ACPR-RS-092   

The incidence of crime victimisation among intellectually disabled adults

●  ACPR-RS-093 

Deinstitutionalisation of the mentally disabled and its impact on police services

●  ACPR-RS-094

Research on one- and two-person patrols: distinguishing fact from fiction

●  ACPR-RS-096   

Computer crime: the improvement of investigative skills - final report - part one

●  ACPR-RS-098 

Victims of violent crime: horror revisited: towards effective victime assistance by police in major crimes - a case study

●  ACPR-RS-099

Newspaper publicity and bank robberies: armed robbery final report

●  ACPR-RS-101   

Computer crime: the improvement of investigative skills - final report - part 2

●  ACPR-RS-103   

Toward policing 2000: final report

●  ACPR-RS-104

How police forces protect the single-officer patrol

●  ACPR-RS-105

When do patrol officers encounter resistance?

●  ACPR-RS-106   

Expectancy of success, anxiety and patrol situation: key dimensions in assessing attitudes to single-officer patrol

●  ACPR-RS-107

Identifying effective supervisory behaviours

●  ACPR-RS-107.1

Supervising for results

●  ACPR-RS-107.2

Handbook of effective supervisory behaviour

●  ACPR-RS-107.3 

Increasing the use of guidance, monitoring and feedback to improve police supervision

●  ACPR-RS-108   

One and two person patrols: summary report

●  ACPR-RS-109   

The influence of police specialisation on job satisfaction: a comparison of general duties officers and detectives

●  ACPR-RS-109.1

The impact of the redesign of the job of general duties patrol on the motivation, job satisfaction and organisational commitment of patrol officers

●  ACPR-RS-115   

Urgent duty driving by Australian police: facts and recommendations

●  ACPR-RS-117.1

Police-citizen interactions: confilct resolution tactics and their influence upon the resistance patrol officers encounter - risk management - study 1

●  ACPR-RS-117.2

Managing the risk of patrol: the influence of anger and asserion in patrol officers upon the level of resistance experienced from citizens - risk management - study 2

●  ACPR-RS-117.3 

Police officer behaviour during interactions with citizens: what distinguishes the 'skilled' from the 'average' officer? - risk management - study 3

●  ACPR-RS-117.4 

Combatting the risk of patrol: guidelines for management - risk management - study 4

●  ACPR-RS-119   

Alcohol and the police workplace

●  ACPR-RS-119.1

Alcohol and the police workforce: factors associated with excessive intake

●  ACPR-RS-120   

Improving customer service in the police station through organisational behaviour management

●  ACPR-RS-121  

A standard law enforcement information security system: guidelines for law enforcement agencies
(restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-122   

The development of organisational commitment across the career span of police officers

●  ACPR-RS-122.1

Improving organisational commitment: the police officer's perspective

●  ACPR-RS-122.2

Development of organisational commitment: pre-recruitment, training and probation

●  ACPR-RS-122.3

The development of organisational commitment: the impact of experience of the police organisation

●  ACPR-RS-122.4

Optimising the organisational commitment of police officers: background and summary of the research and gidelines for management

●  ACPR-RS-122.5

Measuring morale: a manager's guide to the job condition survey

●  ACPR-RS-123

National guidelines compendium: police use of lethal force; deployment of police in high risk situations; deployment of police negotiators

●  ACPR-RS-124  

Is the psychological screeening of police applcants a realistic goal?: the successes and failures of psychological screening

●  ACPR-RS-124.1  

Defining the role of the general duties constable: a job analysis

●  ACPR-RS-124.2

Determination of a job-related test battery for the psychological screening of police applicants

●  ACPR-RS-125.1

Perceptions of ethical dilemmas: ethics and policing - study 1

●  ACPR-RS-125.2

Individual perspectives on police ethics: ethics and policing - study 2

●  ACPR-RS-125.3 

Practical ethics in the police service: ethics and policing - study 3

●  ACPR-RS-126 

Perception of police and polcing: a review of public and police surveys

●  ACPR-RS-126.1 

The police role survey: a tool for comparing public and police perceptions of the police role

●  ACPR-RS-127  

Measuring the succes of law enforcement agencies in Australia in targeting major drug offenders relative to minor drug offenders

●  ACPR-RS-128  

Evaluation of Australian drug anti-trafficing law enforcement

●  ACPR-RS-129.1

Minimum provisions for the investigation of computer based offences

●  ACPR-RS-131.1

Approaches to pawnbroker and secondhand dealer legislation

●  ACPR-RS-132.1

National guidelines for incident management, conflict and use of force

●  ACPR-RS-132.2

National guidelines for incident management, conflict and use of force: 2004

●  ACPR-RS-133.1

Technology environment scan

●  ACPR-RS-134.1

The virtual horizon : meeting the law enforcement challenges : developing an Australasian law enforcement strategy for dealing with electronic crime

●  ACPR-RS-134.2

Identity crimes scoping paper (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-134.3 

A policing perspective on an Australasian system to protect personal identification (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-134.4

Review of the identification verification procudures under the Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (cth) and the Financial Transaction Reports Regulations 1990 (cth) (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-136.1

Equipment belts (restricted access*)  

●  ACPR-RS-138.1

Educational and professional development experiences of female and male police employees

●  ACPR-RS-138.2 

Women in senior police management

●  ACPR-RS-138.3 

Contemporary issues facing women in policing

●  ACPR-RS-138.4

Diversity benchmarking: a look at benchmarking issues relating to the status of women in policing

●  ACPR-RS-140.1

Guidelines for the functional requirements, evaluation and testing of riot shields (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-140.2

Functional requirements for riot helmets (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-141.1

A physical activity profile of general duties constables: implications for applicant selection (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-142.1 

Managing the risk of psychological harm for operational police

●  ACPR-RS-143.1 

Understanding voluntary turnover: an examination of resignations in Australasian police organisations

●  ACPR-RS-144.1

Civil litigation against police in Australasia

●  ACPR-RS-145.1  

Exploring the use of biometrics and other emerging technologies as an investigative tool in identity crimes

●  ACPR-RS-145.2

Review of the legal status and rights of victims of identity theft in Australasia

●  ACPR-RS-145.3 

 Standardisation of definitions of identity crime terms: a step towards consistency

●  ACPR-RS-146.1

Minimising the risk of negative behaviours: understanding workplace bullying in Australasian police organisations (restricted access*)

●  ACPR-RS-147.1 

Police literature 2005: an Australian-focused compendium

●  ACPR-RS-147.2

Police literature 2004: an Australian-focused compendium

●  ACPR-RS-148.1

Australian police workforce planning priority research directions: a scoping paper

●  ACPR-SC-01

Burnout and engagement in probationary police officers: a scoping paper

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

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