Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 97986 total results. Showing results 21221 to 21240 «105810591060106110621063106410651066Next ›Last » Lack of complaints sign of ‘great culture,’ says police chief CANADA: 'I think what it means for the service is that our officers act very professionally ... We don’t have problems with officers behaving poorly,' says South Simcoe Police Chief Bradford Today (Canada) 28/9/2023 News Editorial: Sending a message that our ‘cocaine highway’ is closed REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: To paraphrase Robin Williams, the seizure of €160m to €500m of cocaine was God’s way of telling Irish crime gangs they are making too much money. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 28/9/2023 Feature, Opinion Government urged to intervene in Garda roster dispute REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A body representing rank-and-file garda has urged the Government to intervene to avert industrial action amid a deepening row over rosters. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 28/9/2023 News Harris willing to compromise on garda roster REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Garda Commissioner has said he is willing to enter intensive negotiations with the garda representative associations to resolve a dispute over rosters. RTÉ (Republic of Ireland) 28/9/2023 News The Online Safety Bill: A momentous step forward, but our children cannot wait for its impact The UK’s Online Safety Bill recently passed the final stages of Parliamentary debate, and is now set to become law, but the legislation alone will not address all the challenges around online child sexual abuse; Simon Bailey, Chair of the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region and former National Police Chiefs’ Council Child Protection Lead, warns that big tech must take greater responsibility in keeping children safe online – and that we all have a part to play. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 28/9/2023 Feature, Opinion Therapeutic alignments: examining police and public health/harm reduction partnerships Ongoing calls for police reform across North America alongside the growing momentum for the removal of criminal sanctions for personal possession of drugs have placed policing agencies in an ambivalent position with respect to drug governance and people who use drugs (PWUD). Meanwhile, in response to the longstanding harms produced by drug law enforcement, calls for harm reduction policing have gained traction in recent years, resulting in collaborations between policing agencies and health services, including naloxone administration by police officers, post-overdose outreach and wellness checks, and integrated public health-public safety response and information sharing frameworks. Using situational analysis method, we consider the range of elements and actors that form these partnerships, and their broader structural, institutional, and policy effects. We detail the actual and potential implications of such forms of institutional coordination on health, equity, and the possibility of meaningful drug law reform. Our analysis reveals that rather than mitigating the harms of drug enforcement, such initiatives stand to undermine access to services and increase health system avoidance by eroding trust in public health and harm reduction among PWUD. We reason that the recasting of police as therapeutic agents and as embedded in medico-therapeutic practices reaffirms the role of punitive enforcement practices in drug governance. Policing and Society 28/9/2023 Research article The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis Police activity on social media has emerged as a significant and expanding area of research. However, the existing body of research has predominantly adopted qualitative methods or focused on small-scale samples for quantitative analysis. This study presents a novel approach to analysing police social media behaviours, employing automated classification methods to generate a substantial sample of categorised police tweets. Encompassing over 40,000 tweets from five United Kingdom forces, collected over a three-year period, this dataset represents one of the largest evaluated samples in the domain of police social media research. A core objective of this research is to investigate the extent to which police tweeting behaviours align with three common categories identified in the literature: providing information, engagement, and intelligence gathering. To achieve this, a two-pronged methodology is employed, combining manual content analysis and an applied automated classification approach. This comprehensive method aims to create a sample of classified police tweets, effectively representing their diverse tweeting behaviours. The classicisation process involves the training and testing of three automated models, namely naïve Bayes, logistic regression, and XGBoost, evaluating the accuracy of their results to ensure a robust and reliable classification outcome. Furthermore, the resulting sample is subject to additional in-depth analyses. The exploration encompasses various facets of tweet content, style, overall usage, and adaptability across different police forces. Additionally, the research considers public interactions with the police tweets. These analyses are conducted for each force and class, thereby establishing connections between social media interactions and their potential impact on highlighted agendas. Policing and Society 28/9/2023 Research article Implementation issues with hot spot policing Although the science behind hot spot policing is robust and grounded in theory, implementation issues prevent it from becoming commonplace in everyday policing. The mounting evidence suggests that “hot spot policing” (Sherman and Weisburd 1995) is rarely applied in police routines. The paper critically discusses three common problems with the implementation of this approach into policy: officers' motivation, organisational resistance, and technological failures. Two competing solutions are proposed to these endemic issues: instituting specialised hot spot policing units or outsourcing the job of ‘cooling down’ hot spots to alternative non-police entities, partially or wholly. International Journal of Law Crime and Justice 28/9/2023 Research article Online fraud: what does the public think? Most people are more worried about the effects of online fraud than other crimes, such as knife crime, burglary and sexual offences, according to a new large-scale survey – which also highlights the emotional impact of being an online fraud victim. The poll found that young people were the group most likely to be affected by online fraud, even though half of those questioned believed the elderly were most at risk. Crest Advisory 28/9/2023 Report People more worried about being victims of online fraud than other crimes, survey finds People are more worried about the effects of online fraud than other crimes, such as knife crime, burglary and sexual offences, according to a new survey. Police Professional 28/9/2023 News New law in Northern Ireland grants anonymity to sex offence suspects until charged New laws have come into force in Northern Ireland, which will grant anonymity to people suspected of sexual offences until they are charged. Members of the public will also be excluded from the Crown Court during sexual offence cases. BBC 28/9/2023 News Google user data has become a favorite police shortcut Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime. Bloomberg 28/9/2023 Feature Crackdown on WA gun owners coming to boost public safety AUSTRALIA: A five gun limit for recreational firearm owners and annual health checks for shooters over the age of 80 could form part of the Cook government’s planned gun reforms. The reforms could see up to one third of the state’s legally owned firearms removed from their owners. WA Today (Australia) 28/9/2023 News Offenders aged 14 to 17 lead surge in violent crime AUSTRALIA: Young Victorians are committing more violent and serious crimes than previously recorded, and the trend is being driven by offenders aged 14 to 17, state crime statistics released on Thursday reveal. Among that age group, there was a more than 26 per cent increase in the 12 months to June. This included 3758 assaults, more than 1300 robberies and 1495 car thefts. WA Today (Australia) 28/9/2023 News Latest Victorian crime data: Year ending 30 June 2023 AUSTRALIA: The Crime Statistics Agency publishes recorded crime statistics here every quarter. You can also view crime data by local government area in the latest crime data by area. Crime Statistics Agency Victoria (Australia) 28/9/2023 Report NSW top cop accepts issues with cold case evidence AUSTRALIA: NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has accepted difficulties locating historical evidence by the unsolved homicide squad hindered investigations, an inquiry has been told. Lawyer for NSW Police, Mark Tedeschi told the Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes on Thursday, Ms Webb considered past practices to be the root of the problem. The Wimmera Mail-Times (Australia) 28/9/2023 News GSOC report shows drop in number of complaints in 2022 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) forwarded 27 files to the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2022, arising from investigations into allegations made against gardaí of sexual violence, assault, breaches of the Road Traffic Acts and the provision of false information. RTÉ (Republic of Ireland) 28/9/2023 News Anonymity for sex offence suspects until point of charge under new Northern Ireland laws Members of the public will also be banned from attending serious sex offences trials under the changes, which follow a review of existing laws. Sky News 28/9/2023 News Parliamentary committee calls for reform of UK drugs laws and adoption of a more trauma-informed approach Last month the cross-party UK Home Affairs Committee published its latest report on drugs, which included calls for a reform of legislation, greater cross-departmental collaboration in combating drugs, and more emphasis on protecting children and adopting a trauma-informed approach to the problem; Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons explores some of the key recommendation from the Committee. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 28/9/2023 Analysis, Feature Police turn off body cameras, delete evidence and share footage on WhatsApp More than 150 reports of misuse have been found - including footage of a naked person being shared My London 28/9/2023 News «105810591060106110621063106410651066Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
