... Concentrating on stress, this paper will consider why police officers may become stressed, the police culture and its relationship to stress and finally how stressors can have an adverse affect on the health and well being of the Bobby on the Beat. In conclusion, I will draw on the content of this essay in deciding how psychology can assist the Bobby on the Beat, if at all Most psychological research in the area of aggression has focused on how and why people are aggressive in society, but very few have aimed at police aggression. It is accepted that the police have to meet aggression full in the face on a daily basis, but there is outrage if it is the police themselves that use such behaviour. Tourists to, and other law enforcement officers from outside of, the United Kingdom are often surprised to discover that the British 'Booby on the Beat' ...

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