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= __**Learn More**__ = = = (1) [] This website covers the working conditions police officers have to deal with. It talks about how cops have to deal with obvious threats as well as other threatening dangers. The death and suffering that police have to see is also brought up. Police only have to work forty hour weeks but paid overtime is also a very common thing. The site then goes on to talk about how some officers also have to travel a lot in their job field.

(2) [] Wikipedia covers a wide variety of information. It starts out talking about what a police officer does. Then it moves on to discuss the qualifications to be an officer and how much police are paid. Next it discusses the hazards of being an officer which branches over stress indicators, the sources of stress, and the personality theories on how an officers personality in connection to their job can help contribute to stress. It then has a couple of short paragraphs on police officers abuse of power both individually and as a group.

(3) [] More information about police officers can also be found in the link above. This site talks about what a police officer's job is like. Talking about uniforms, transportation, and different work conditions. It also talks about some of the qualities and conditions a person needs to have to become a good officer. Salary, available jobs, and expected future employment rates are also mentioned. There is also a list of other jobs that are like a police officer's and a link to another source of information.

(4) [] Following this link will lead to information on the history of policing. It starts out by explaining the definition of policing. Then the website transitions into talking about the origins of policing in Britain. The Metropolitan Police Act during Sir Robert Peel's time as Home Secretary is also discussed as well as Scotland Yard which controlled those first police units in England.

(5) [] The link above goes to a site that discusses the history of policing in America. It talks about how America got a lot of its policing ideas from England. It then talks about how police in America are controlled at the local, state, and federal levels. The first paragraph mainly describes how the America police system was like Englands. The second paragraph then moves on to talk about how the two police systems contrast.