Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100850 total results. Showing results 20061 to 20080 «100010011002100310041005100610071008Next ›Last » Dorset’s use of RPA proves it’s ‘vital’ to continue investing in improving victim services Compliance with the Victims' Code of Practice has improved since the introduction of automation within the force's Victims' Bureau in November 2022. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 News Lancashire Chief Constable announces his retirement Chief Constable Chris Rowley has more than 31 years in policing. Lancashire Chief Constable Chris Rowley has announced his intention to retire from policing at the end of March 2024. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 News Met officer praised by judge for child sexual offence investigation A man has been jailed after being convicted of multiple child sexual offences following a forensic and undercover investigation. A Met PC has been praised in court for his work on a child sexual abuse case that resulted in the perpetrator being sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 News New laws are needed to combat AI chatbots, says independent reviewer New laws are needed to combat artificial intelligence chatbots that could radicalise users, the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said. The new Online Safety Act is “unsuited to sophisticated and generative AI”, the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 News Generative AI poses a “major risk” to UK national security as report warns over risk of radicalization Terrorism tsar John Hall has called for new laws to mitigate the risks of generative AI IT PRO 2/1/2024 News Lancashire police chief retires weeks after criticism over Nicola Bulley case Chief constable Chris Rowley will step down from the role in March after a 31-year career with the force The Independent 2/1/2024 News The past 12 months have presented challenges and opportunities for policing – with more to come in 2024 As we welcome in 2024, Policing Insight Editor Keith Potter looks back over what the past 12 months have meant for policing in the UK and internationally, how those issues have been covered by Policing Insight, and the continuing challenges and opportunities for the year ahead. Policing Insight - Registration at source 2/1/2024 Analysis, Feature, Opinion The Impact of Race and Skin Color on Police Contact and Arrest: Results From a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study Racial inequality in arrest is a social problem that has challenged the United States for as long as police records have been kept. Prior work documents the extent of the disparity and observational studies have attempted to sort out the mechanisms that explain why the disparity exists. Building on the “constructivist” perspective of race, the current study draws on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to assess the degree to which race and skin color explain the observed racial disparity in criminal justice contact and arrest. Results revealed that controlling for criminal behavior and a host of covariates, neither race nor skin color increased the likelihood of police contact. Race, however, was predictive of an increase in the odds of arrest—with Black respondents being 92% more likely to experience arrest than White respondents—and this relationship remained controlling for the effects of skin color, police contact, and prior criminal behavior. These findings suggest that the “race effect” may be due to unobserved biases not related to skin color. Race and Justice 2/1/2024 Research article Challenges and opportunities for minority students at police academies: A national sample This article examines institutional factors influencing graduation rates for police trainees of different races and ethnic groups. The study is based on the Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies data collected in 2013 and 2018. It uses both analysis of variance and ordinary least squares regressions to analyze the data. Overall, the article reports a statistically significant improvement for Hispanic trainees’ graduation rates when comparing 2013 and 2018. However, the same was not true for Black students at the police academies who continued to trail in 2018 compared with both White and Hispanic students. Our findings show that the length of the program and the location of the academy in the South were negatively influencing the graduation rates for all groups of cadets in both datasets. Other findings show that minority trainees were more likely to succeed where minimum education requirements for the instructors were in place, academies were affiliated with academic institutions, field training was the preferred mode of instruction, and where dormitories were not present. International Journal of Police Science & Management - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 Research article Building “A Beautiful Safe Place for Youth” through problem-oriented community organizing: A quasi-experimental evaluation This paper describes Rainier Beach: A Beautiful Safe Place for Youth (ABSPY), a community-led, place-based, data-driven initiative to improve community safety and reduce crime involving young people at hot spots in Seattle, Washington. The ABSPY model puts crime prevention into the hands of the community, compared to traditional problem-solving approaches that may involve community stakeholders but are led by the police. We evaluated the initiative using a quasi-experimental research design comparing the five hot spots in the Rainier Beach neighborhood, where ABSPY was implemented, to five similarly situated hot spots elsewhere in the city. We used 9 years of police calls for service and offense reports, from 2011 to 2019, to assess ABSPY's effects on crime and a five-wave community survey conducted pre- and 4 years post-implementation to examine community perceptions. Although there were no significant effects on calls for service or crime, ABSPY significantly improved community members’ perceptions of serious crime and the police in the short and medium term. Criminology and Public Policy 2/1/2024 Research article Hertfordshire’s PCC to stand down at next election Hertfordshire’s police and crime commissioner (PCC) David Lloyd has announced he is to stand down at the next election in May this year. Police Professional 2/1/2024 News Child left distraught after video game character ‘gang raped’ in metaverse as cops probe ‘first virtual sexual offence’ The victim was in an online 'room' with a large number of users when she was 'raped' The Sun 2/1/2024 News DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Should virtual ‘crime’ be a police matter? It sounds like the twisted plot of some grotesque sci-fi movie. A young girl creates an avatar – an online representation of herself – and becomes immersed in a virtual-reality computer game. As her avatar enters a large room in this imaginary universe, it is set upon by a group of strangers and repeatedly raped. No one lifts a finger to help and there is apparently no redress. So the distressed girl reports the virtual attack to police in the real world, who are investigating it as a possible sex crime. Mail Online 2/1/2024 Feature, Opinion ‘Alarming statistics’: $35m in cops missing from NSW streets AUSTRALIA: The NSW Police Force saved a staggering $35 million dollars last year on wages because of the growing number of cops quitting the force and not being replaced. The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 News WA police chief says cop who punched man during New Year’s Eve arrest did not use excessive force AUSTRALIA: Commissioner Col Blanch says alleged offender appeared to be resisting arrest during incident at Perth pub The Guardian 2/1/2024 News Garda roads policing numbers fall in 2023 as road deaths reach nine-year high REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Forty-seven fewer gardaí policing roads by end of 2023, a year that saw 184 people killed in collisions The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 2/1/2024 News Domestic abuse perpetrator programme aims to deliver a successful prevention-first approach Perpetrator programmes can prove controversial, but the new Chrysalis Centre – a £2m scheme funded by the Home Office – is hoping that a prevention-first approach can protect domestic abuse victims and their families from harm, as Policing Insight’s James Sweetland reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 Analysis, Feature Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 News Progress update on aspects of Police photographing and fingerprinting practices NEW ZEALAND: This paper reports on progress New Zealand Police (Police) has made in response to the December 2021 Compliance Notice issued by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) about Police photographing and fingerprinting practices [14 requirements]. New Zealand Police 2/1/2024 Report Sextortion: Victim tells of ordeal as PSNI issues alert following surge in cases Police dealt with 70 reports a month of blackmail concerning intimate images in 2023 Belfast Telegraph - Subscription at source 2/1/2024 News «100010011002100310041005100610071008Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
