Highlights•Perceptual-motor behavior is a process (ie, perception, selection, action).•Anxiety
induces an attentional, interpretational and behavioral bias to threat.•Reduced attentional …

Aim Police action is frequently discussed and almost always monitored. The aim of this
systematic review is to identify the psychological and social factors underlying police officers' …

Under conditions of physiological stress, officers are sometimes required to make split-
second life-or-death decisions, where deficits in performance can have tragic outcomes …

Policing is a highly stressful and dangerous profession that involves a complex set of
environmental, psychosocial, and health risks. The current study examined autonomic stress …

Police officers are often required to perform under high-stress circumstances, in which
optimal task performance is crucial for their and the bystanders' physical integrity. However …

Investigations of police performance during acutely stressful situations have primarily
focused on higher-order cognitive processes like attention, affect or emotion and decision …

To prepare for critical incidents on duty, police officers need to acquire the skills and tactics
in realistic environments so that they transfer to high-stress circumstances. To bridge the gap …

Background: Police officer response in a critical incident is often a life-or-death scenario for
the officer, the suspect, and the public. Efficient and accurate decisions are necessary to …

Law enforcement is inherently stressful, and police officers are particularly vulnerable to
mental and physical disorders. As such, researchers are currently assessing intervention …

We investigated the effects of reflex-based self-defence training on police performance in
simulated high-pressure arrest situations. Police officers received this training as well as a …