Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104882 total results. Showing results 2101 to 2120 «102103104105106107108109110Next ›Last » Cornwall police use survey, staff feedback to guide 2025-28 strategic plan CANADA: While a polished version of the 2025-28 Cornwall Police Service strategic plan won’t be finalized and made public until September, the board adopted the organization’s new plan in principle on Thursday. A draft version of the new plan was presented to the board by Chief of Police Shawna Spowart and Pamela Smit of Ottawa-based Veradus Consulting. Spowart said that despite a few outstanding related tasks, the draft plan highlighted the recommended framework to follow moving forward. Cornwall Standard-Freeholder (Canada) 20/6/2025 News NSW Police officer charged with allegedly assaulting two women in domestic violence attack AUSTRALIA: A police officer has been charged four months after allegedly assaulting two women in a domestic violence attack. The senior constable, 53, who is attached to a specialist command, allegedly assaulted two women, aged 53 and 36, during an altercation at a Caringbah home, in Sydney’s south, on Sunday, February 9 while he was off-duty. Police will allege they were called to the home, where they were told there had been a domestic violence incident. 7 News (Australia) 20/6/2025 News Understanding learned helplessness: The role of fear of crime and social support Learned helplessness can significantly impact mental health and wellbeing, and understanding its predictors and buffers is key for developing effective recognition and intervention programs. This study examined the predictive role of fear of crime and perceived interpersonal social support (ISS) in learned helplessness. Results showed that fear of crime was positively associated with learned helplessness, while perceived ISS was negatively associated with it. However, perceived ISS did not moderate the relationship between fear of crime and learned helplessness. These findings highlight the independent roles of fear of crime and social support in learned helplessness. Implications of the findings are discussed. The Police Journal: Theory Practice and Principles 20/6/2025 Research article When Do Guardians Deter Offending? An Experimental Test of Informal Social Control Mechanisms Purpose To inform community theories of informal social control, we test the circumstances under which private citizens can be effective in deterring would-be offenders and identifying characteristics and motivations of citizens willing to assume this role. Methods We conducted 447 trials of an online laboratory experiment with monetary incentives in which participants were randomly assigned to one of three roles: Target, Guardian, or Thief. Thieves could steal from Targets but Guardians could pay to punish Thieves for taking. We observe rates of theft while randomizing the presence of Guardians and their number, the cost of punishment for the Guardian, and the maximum punishment by Guardians. We also measured participant regard for others. Results Potential offenders were deterred by punishments provided punishment potentially exceeded the rewards of offending but only when their regard for the welfare of others was low. Potential offenders with high regard for the welfare of others were unlikely to offend regardless of the threat of punishment. The pronounced interaction between deterrence and regard for others is notable because the main effect of regard for others is far larger than the main effect of the threat of punishment. The impact of regard for the welfare of others also extended to guardians. Guardians were willing to punish infractions even if punishing was costly for them and did so more often when their regard for others was higher. Conclusions The risk that a community member might intervene on behalf of a victim deters others from offending, however regard for the welfare others had a far larger impact on taking decisions than the capacity of guardians to punish. We discuss implications for community interventions with deterrence components. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 20/6/2025 Research article Beyond Identification: A Problem-Oriented Approach to Diagnosing Racial Disparities in Policing Objectives: Underlying racial disparities in policing to inform the design and implementation of problem-oriented police reforms. Methods: We sample over 1.5 million traffic stops conducted between 2019 and 2023 in a state police agency and use the Veil-of-Darkness (VOD) method on a subset of 299,767 stops within the intertwilight period to demonstrate the utility of the diagnostic framework. This method utilizes weighted logistic regression with daylight as the primary independent variable and driver race as the dependent variable. Results: As part of demonstrating the framework, we found that disparities were largely diffuse across the agency, with some concentration among officers and patrol regions. As such, it would be best to design multi-pronged trainings and interventions that reflect these distinct patterns observed in the agency. Conclusions: This study developed a framework for diagnosing some of the theoretical mechanisms. The diagnostic framework provides a data-driven tool for researchers and practitioners to begin to understand where different types of racial disparity originate within police agencies. Future research building on this framework should explore the utility of incorporating alternative data sources and theoretical mechanisms, as well as assessing other metrics used to assess different types of racial disparities. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 20/6/2025 Research article Cascading Constraint and Subsidiary Discretion: Perspectives on Police Discretion From Police-Led Drug Diversion and Stop and Search in England This article explores how discretion is managed and exercised across senior, middle, and street levels of policing. It uses qualitative data from two studies in England. The first, a study across three police force areas, involved interviews and focus groups with 221 people who were designers, deliverers, and recipients of police-led drug diversion. The second study used 354 hours of ethnographic observation and 21 interviews to examine stop-and-search practices in one other police force. Rather than a simply expanding scope of discretion at lower levels of the hierarchy, the findings reveal a multi-level process of cascading constraints and subsidiary discretion. At each level, we observe the exercise of occupational professionalism and autonomous judgement, but higher-level constraints shape how discretion is applied in pursuit of organizational professionalism. British Journal of Criminology 20/6/2025 Research article Bedfordshire Police using AI tool to profile political views, sex life, race and health data Bedfordshire Police is piloting a controversial AI-powered data system that can access highly sensitive information about individuals, including their race, political views, sex life and health, according to an investigation by Liberty Investigates and The i paper. Bedford Independent 20/6/2025 News New solar farm powers Leicestershire Police’s environmental ambitions A new state-of-the-art solar farm is helping Leicestershire Police reduce its carbon footprint and become greener. The force is believed to be one of the first in the country to invest in the installation of a small solar farm, which is powering operations at its headquarters in Enderby, Leicester, and pushing the force closer to its net zero ambitions. Police Professional 20/6/2025 News Police Scotland must reject guidance on investigating pregnancy loss – campaigners Police Scotland must clarify whether they intend to reject UK policing guidance regarding criminal investigations into women experiencing pregnancy loss, campaigners have said. The force’s Chief Constable, Jo Farrell, has been sent a letter urging her to publicly clarify if the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) recommendations on abortion and still birth will be adopted in Scotland. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/6/2025 News Deprioritising shop theft will ‘put progress at risk’ and give criminals ‘free reign’, UK shops warn A group of the UK's convenience stores and shopworkers have written to police leaders urging them to reaffirm their commitment to investigating shop theft, after senior officers warned that the offence would be a lower priority for forces. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/6/2025 News Depiction of strangulation in pornography will be banned to halt VAWG The depiction of strangulation in pornology is set to be banned in a move by the Government to halt violence against women and girls (VAWG), it has been confirmed. The new laws will see pornography depicting any act of strangulation to be made illegal through Crime and Policing Bill, and follows a recommendation made by the Independent Porn Review (IPR). Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/6/2025 News Quebec police arrest 22 ‘high-risk’ sex offenders after surveillance operation CANADA: Québec provincial police say they have arrested 22 convicted sex offenders in an operation involving 17 municipal police forces. Blue Line (Canada) 20/6/2025 News Man identified in 1996 cold case using investigative genetic genealogy CANADA: The Toronto Police Service has updated the public on the status of a cold case investigation for a man found deceased in Toronto in 1996. Blue Line (Canada) 20/6/2025 News Vehicle stolen every five minutes in UK despite highest standards of security, new research shows Raising security features will not stop the international market for vehicles stolen in the UK says research from Thatcham and the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service. Data released by Thatcham Research, alongside the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service (NaVCIS), noted the international scale of the UK’s stolen vehicle problem. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/6/2025 News Kingston’s new Special Constable Appointment Strategy aims to improve community safety and enforcement responses CANADA: As Kingston grows and changes, so does its need to address the most pressing community safety concerns. Blue Line (Canada) 20/6/2025 News The events leading to Evan Fitzgerald’s death deserve proper scrutiny REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Evan Fitzgerald's entrapment and prosecution for firearms offences is considered a major factor in his suicide. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 20/6/2025 Feature, Opinion Urgent need for legislation regulating covert policing, warns ICCL REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has written to the Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, calling on him to introduce legislation to regulate the use of covert human intelligence sources, including undercover gardaí. Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) 20/6/2025 News Secret 2016 asbestos report into Garda Stations needs to be addressed – Kelly REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris need to answer five simple questions a Tipperary TD has said. Offaly Live 20/6/2025 News Justice Secretary praises Police Scotland’s innovation and collaboration in ‘challenging financial environment’ Scottish Justice Secretary Angela Constance has praised Scottish police superintendents for their role in leading innovation and collaboration that has ensured Police Scotland can meet the challenges of modern crime – despite a backdrop of a “challenging financial environment” which has left the force and the Government with “no quick fixes” and limited choices, as Policing Insight’s Martin Gallagher reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 20/6/2025 Analysis, Feature Police Organizations, Fiscal Distress, and Police Employment Among Sworn and Non-Sworn Employee In this study, we examine how fiscal distress following the Great Recession may have affected police employment levels over the long-term, and how those effects may vary across sworn and civilian employees. Using data from a variety of sources including multiple waves of the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey and the UCR Police Employee Data, we construct rates of change in employment levels for sworn and civilian employees. We find that fiscal distress has a robust negative relationship on employment levels for both sworn and civilian employees, with a stronger effect on the civilian employee. We also find that economic vulnerability measures yield a positive relationship to police employment among sworn employees. Our findings suggest that the effects of fiscal distress are absorbed disproportionately toward civilian employees, and that broader economic vulnerability can result in at least short-term increases in sworn employment. American Journal of Criminal Justice - Subscription at source 20/6/2025 Research article «102103104105106107108109110Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
