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                            Funding & Awards
 The Impact of Law Enforcement Shift Practices and Extra-Duty Employment on Various Health, Safety, Performance, and Quality of Life Measures
Award Information
Awardee
              Police Foundation
Award #
              2005-FS-BX-0057
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    washington, DC
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2005
Total funding (to date)
              $998,870
Original Solicitation
              Effects of Shift Work Schedules on Police Officer Health, Safety, Performance and Quality of Life
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2005, $998,870)
Police officers are the frontline of safety for our communities and play a critical role in the security of our nation in an increasingly complex and dangerous world.  Yet, the 24/7 operational demands of their jobs can result in serious consequences.  A significant body of scientific and operational literature clearly establishes that around-the-clock operations in a variety of organizations can degrade safety, performance, health, mood, and alertness.
The primary experimental variable in this study is shift length.  Accordingly, the main research question is whether variable shift length in police agencies has a meaningful influence on work performance indicators (e.g. sick leave, injuries, accidents, reaction time, complaints, shooting and driving simulations), and individual self report indicators of health, fatigue and quality of life (job stress, police daily hassles, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and work-family conflict).
The grantee will secure participation of police departments willing to implement a randomized experimental design in order to evaluate the risks and benefits of current scheduling practices to more effectively manage shift work and non-standard schedules in police operations.  The project would be implemented in two or three sites; two potential sites are identified in the proposal and the third will be determined.
The three randomized experiments would allow the grantee to develop valid estimates of the effects of (a) differential shift length and (b) the interaction between shift length and shift schedule (using a block randomized experimental design).  The study would also consider the relevance of off duty employment and overtime.
Findings will be disseminated to law enforcement agencies, criminal justice and policy officials, and police researchers across the nation. The results of this project will provide a scientific basis to guide police administrators and policymakers in the use of the most beneficial and lowest risk scheduling policies and practices and for police leaders to better understand and manage the risks associated with 24/7 demands and provide a means for maximizing efficiency, effectiveness, and officer well-being.



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Strengthening Policing Science at the National Institute of Justice
                  Supporting Officer Wellness Within a Changing Policing Environment: What Research Tells Us
                  Studies of Shifts and Sleep May Help Correctional Officers
                                                                      NIJ Update,
                  Sleep Disorders, Work Shifts and Officer Wellness
                                                                      NIJ Journal,
                  Impact of Shift Length in Policing on Performance, Health, Quality of Life, Sleep, Fatigue, and Extra-Duty Employment
                  Impact of Shift Length in Policing on Performance, Health, Quality of Life, Sleep, Fatigue, and Extra-Duty Employment, Executive Summary
                  Trends in Shift Length: Results of a Random National Survey of Police Agencies
                  Shift Length Experiment: What We Know About 8-, 10-, and 12-Hour Shifts in Policing

  
Date Created: September 20, 2005
    
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