Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 114945 total results. Showing results 2061 to 2080 «100101102103104105106107108Next ›Last » What can Australia do about reports of child criminal exploitation? Child criminal exploitation has long been recognised in the UK – particularly the county lines model – and is a focus for a number of European countries, but understanding of the issue is limited in Australia; Dr Susan Baidawi, an Associate Professor at Monash University, warns that far from being an emerging problem, such exploitation is already a defining contemporary youth justice issue, and one which urgently requires data collection, multi-agency collaboration, and a response embedded in child protection. Policing Insight 8/4/2026 Analysis, Feature, Opinion Garda charged in connection with organised crime investigation REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A serving Garda is to appear this morning in court in Dublin in relation to an investigation into organised crime. The Journal (Republic of Ireland) 8/4/2026 News Home Office seeks trio of £100k-plus leaders to support police tech transformation Whitehall department is looking to fill three positions covering legacy upgrades, the rollout of a biometrics programme, and core IT services that support the operation of forces around the country. Public Technology 8/4/2026 News ‘He stalked me, but I was the one arrested’ Jodie Morrow had just finished an early shift at her cafe job in December 2020 when she noticed missed calls from the police on her phone. She knew this would have something to do with Ezra Garfield, the man who she told police had been plaguing her with messages on social media after they briefly dated. For three months beforehand, the Ulster University student had raised concerns about Garfield and, despite her repeated contact with officers, he had not been arrested. But an hour later it was now Jodie in the back of a police car, tearfully facing a journey to custody, having been arrested over false allegations that she was the one harassing him. More than five years later, Garfield was eventually jailed after pleading guilty to harassment and perverting the course of justice, and the Police Service of Northern Ireland has acknowledged "shortcomings" in how the case was handled. BBC 8/4/2026 News Police chief reflects on his first year in the job The head of Humberside Police has reflected on his first 12 months in the role. BBC 8/4/2026 News Treat jailed drug dealers like radical extremists, says prisons watchdog Charlie Taylor, inspector of prisons for England and Wales, says dealers should be isolated and ‘assertively managed’. Jailed criminals who are flooding prisons with drugs should be isolated like radical extremists and “assertively managed”, the England and Wales prisons watchdog has said. The Guardian 8/4/2026 News Inside the organised rural crime epidemic crippling British farms Ruthless gangs targeting the UK countryside are overwhelming the police. Our writer joined them on shift to observe the problem first-hand The Telegraph - Subscription at source 8/4/2026 Analysis, Feature Baked-in bias: Fundamental flaws of new police technologies Despite campaign groups continuing to voice concerns about potential bias in the use of facial recognition technology (FRT), UK policing is pushing ahead with adopting the technology, with backing from the Government; Policing Insight’s Andrew Staniforth looks at one of the most recent examples of FRT failure, and highlights a new European initiative to enhance objectivity, neutrality, and fairness in the pursuit of justice, particularly in relation to digital technologies. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 8/4/2026 Analysis, Feature, Innovation I made a mistake, Police Commissioner says of historic complaint NEW ZEALAND: After an 18-month battle to get hold of official information, it can now be reported Police Commissioner Richard Chambers had a complaint upheld against him when he was in charge of the Wellington region. 1 News (New Zealand) 8/4/2026 News Child safety legislation change ensures mandatory child abuse reporting from Tasmania Police AUSTRALIA: Tasmania's child safety legislation was updated last week with an "urgent fix" after concerns mandatory reporting of any alleged child abuse committed by staff did not apply to police officers. ABC News (Australia) 7/4/2026 News B.C. bolsters Civil Forfeiture Office to target organized crime and unexplained wealth CANADA: The British Columbia government has announced a significant expansion of the Civil Forfeiture Office (CFO) to strengthen its ability to identify and seize assets linked to organized crime and money laundering. Effective April 1, the agency will nearly double its staffing levels and shift toward a more proactive investigative model to ensure that criminal activity does not remain profitable. Blue Line (Canada) 7/4/2026 News Alberta lawyers, former Mountie call for criminal probe into Edmonton police chief, lawyer CANADA: A retired Mountie and a group representing Alberta’s defence lawyers are both calling for a third-party investigation into possible criminal behaviour by the Edmonton Police Service chief and his top departmental lawyer. The Criminal Trial Lawyers’ Association (CTLA) says Chief Warren Driechel and EPS legal and regulatory services director Megan Hankowich need to be investigated for statements made over the recent manslaughter case involving the 2023 death of eight-year-old Nina Napope. Global News (Canada) 7/4/2026 News N.B. RCMP officer cleared in shooting death of suspect, police watchdog finds CANADA: An independent police watchdog agency says it found "no reasonable grounds" that a New Brunswick RCMP officer committed a criminal offence in the death of a man killed in a police-involved shooting in Moncton last September CBC News (Canada) 7/4/2026 News Three police officers hurt, unmarked car stolen as nine teens face court in Townsville AUSTRALIA: Three police officers were injured and an unmarked car stolen as nine teenagers faced court in Townsville yesterday (April 7). NewsCop (Australia) 7/4/2026 News Nothing could prepare Peter Sloly for the Freedom Convoy. Four years on, the former police chief sees it as a turning point — for more than his own career CANADA: Steve Paikin interviews Peter Sloly, who opens up about his time as Ottawa's police chief during the trucker convoy. Toronto Star (Canada) 7/4/2026 Feature, Interview, Opinion Federal government wants court to toss out human rights decision against RCMP CANADA: The federal government says the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal wrongfully awarded compensation to both complainants and witnesses who claimed discrimination by the RCMP in an investigation of historical sexual abuse allegations against a school teacher in Burns Lake, B.C. CTV News (Canada) 7/4/2026 News Do Real-Time Crime Centers Improve Case Clearance? An Examination of Chicago’s Strategic Decision Support Centers Purpose: Real-Time Crime Centers (RTCCs) integrate a variety of technologies and information with the goal of helping police to more efficiently identify and respond to crime. A growing number of law enforcement agencies have implemented RTCCs in recent years, but few studies have evaluated their impact on crime control or investigative outcomes. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to examine whether RTCCs improve rates of case clearance for violent, property, and overall crime in Chicago, IL. Methods: RTCCs were established in different police districts over the course of a three-year period. Difference-in-differences estimation with Poisson panel regression models are used to estimate the effect of RTCCs on case clearance, while controlling for other policing factors and neighborhood characteristics that may influence case clearance at the district level. Results: On average, RTCCs were associated with a 5% increase in clearance rates for violent crime (IRR = 1.05, p=.004), a 12% increase for property crime (IRR = 1.12, p=.003), and an 11% increase for overall crime (IRR = 1.11, p CRIMRXIV 7/4/2026 Research article Open letter from Chief Constable Chris Todd Today (Tuesday, 7 April 2026), is 12 months since Chief Constable Chris Todd joined Humberside Police. To mark this milestone he has written an open letter to the Police and Crime Commissioner reflecting on his first year in the role. You can read his letter below:... Humberside Police 7/4/2026 News Plural policing in and through the railway: a view from India This article draws on archival research and ethnographic observation to historicise the organisation of policing in the Indian Railways, focusing particularly on how it traverses institutional boundaries – public and private, regional and national, routine and exceptional, and in turn revealing the contingent and composite nature of infrastructural governance. Two central contributions are made. First, it argues that police work offers a productive analytic for apprehending the socio-material and normative complexity of infrastructural life in postcolonial contexts. Second, it critiques dominant approaches to plural policing that emphasise state withdrawal, instead drawing attention to the enduring salience of the state as a moral and juridical referent in contexts of risk and uncertainty. In doing so, the article reframes state power not as a fixed institutional form but as a shifting, yet vital, mode of accountability. Policing and Society 7/4/2026 Research article Surge in neighbourhood police in communities fighting crime Government meets target to put over 3,000 additional neighbourhood police into roles 2 months early. Over 3,000 additional police officers and police community support officers (PCSOs) have been put into neighbourhood roles in less than a year, as new figures reveal the government has hit this target 2 months ahead of schedule. Home Office 7/4/2026 News «100101102103104105106107108Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
