Impact of Public Alcohol Use on Police Work [press release]

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Press release

Impact of Public Alcohol Use on Police Work

Released by the Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
July 6, 2004

Myrstol, Brad A. (Spring 2004). "Police Patrol and Public Alcohol Use in Anchorage." Alaska Justice Forum 21(1): 1, 9-12.

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> Police Alcohol Related Services Study (PASS) [project] > Drug-Related Crime and the Workload of Anchorage Police Officers [project] > Alaska local law enforcement > Alcohol & alcohol abuse

The Justice Center at the University of Alaska Anchorage has released a report from Phase One of the Police Alcohol-Related Services Study—or PASS. The Center initiated the study at the request of the Anchorage Police Department in an effort to understand more clearly how the use of alcohol by the general public affects police work. The study concentrated particularly on police patrol. It found that one in every three minutes that APD officers spend with the general public is in the context of an alcohol-related event—more than forty-five minutes per shift on average. Fourteen percent of all patrol shift time is devoted to events related to alcohol.
Phase Two of the project is examining the impact of alcohol-related work on officers’ attitudes and perceptions. A comprehensive report will be released in autumn 2004. Brad Myrstol, a research associate with the Center, is the principle investigator for the project and author of the reports.
A summary of the findings from Phase One appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of the Alaska Justice Forum, which is available on-line at www.uaa.alaska.edu/just. The entire report will also be available at the same web address later in the summer.

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