Policing the lockdown: accounts of police officers’ aggression and extortion of frontline health workers in Nigeria

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the many intersections between policing and public health, illuminating profound effects of the interactions and collaborative efforts between both sectors in Nigeria, which culminated into an industrial action by health workers in protest of police harassment and e...

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Autor principal: Aborisade, Richard Abayomi (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gbahabo, Dooshima Dorothy
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
En: Policing and society
Año: 2021, Volumen: 31, Número: 5, Páginas: 565-582
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