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MPS launches hotline to report corrupt officers and staff
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has launched a new anonymous hotline for people to report corrupt or abusive officers and staff.
Police Professional 		29/11/2022
News
IWF warns of ‘disturbing’ new trend that risks exposure to child sexual abuse material online
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has warned the public faces an “escalating risk” of accidental exposure to child sexual abuse online as a “disturbing” new trend rewards criminals for spamming social media with links to illegal material.
Police Professional 		29/11/2022
News
Fall in domestic abuse but reported incidents just ‘tip of the iceberg’, warns Justice Secretary
The number of domestic abuse incidents recorded by Police Scotland has fallen for the first time in eight years, although Justice Secretary Keith Brown has warned they are just the “tip of the iceberg”.
Police Professional 		29/11/2022
News
Bravery and commitment of officers recognised at Scottish Police Federation Awards
A probationary officer who restrained a violent man after he headbutted and knocked out her colleague, and a group of constables who saved the life of an armed man threatening to blow up a block of flats, were among the winners of Scottish Police Federation Awards.
Police Professional 		29/11/2022
News
The lowering of Australia’s terrorism threat level is a success, but it shouldn’t cause complacency
This week the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation announced that the country’s terror threat level was to be reduced; Dr John Coyne, head of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre, warns that while the move should be welcomed, extremist ideologies still exist in Australia and will need continued careful and close monitoring to prevent any further acts of violence.
Policing Insight 		29/11/2022
Analysis, Feature
IOPC: Digitally transforming with NICE a positive experience
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) oversees the police complaints system in England and Wales. They investigate the most serious matters, including deaths following police contact, and set the standards by which the police should handle complaints. The IOPC wanted to make it as easy and seamless as possible for police forces to share information and evidence with IOPC investigators. To address this and other challenges, the IOPC implemented NICE Investigate.
Policing Insight 		29/11/2022
Advertisement, Feature
Scandal-hit Met Police launches hotline to report corrupt and abusive officers
Britain’s biggest police force has launched a new anonymous hotline for people to report corrupt or abusive officers.
ITV News 		29/11/2022
News
Met Police launches abuse and corruption hotline
An anonymous hotline will be set up for people to report Met Police officers and staff for corruption, abuse and other breaches of trust or power.
BBC 		29/11/2022
News
‘Like martial law’: When police got the green light to take a truncheon to COVID-19
AUSTRALIA: In its panic as case numbers grew, the NSW government gave police the green light to take a truncheon to COVID-19. Officers were dispatched to enforce hastily written, vague orders that curtailed most of our freedoms and thousands of people copped fines they did not deserve. As an independent report found, governments’ COVID-19 response “sometimes looked ... more like martial law than humanitarian relief”.
The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 		29/11/2022
Analysis, Feature
New Zealand ‘suitcase’ murders: South Korea hands over 42-year-old suspect
NEW ZEALAND: South Korea has extradited a 42-year-old murder suspect to New Zealand, two months after she was arrested over her possible connection to the discovery of the bodies of two long-dead children in abandoned suitcases in August. South Korea’s justice ministry said on Tuesday the unidentified woman was handed over to New Zealand authorities on Monday evening at Incheon international airport near Seoul. The ministry said it also has provided New Zealand with unspecified “important evidence” on the case.
The Guardian 		29/11/2022
News
Police alerted to 12 rapes a DAY and criminal justice system ‘failing far too many victims’
Calls for targeted investment to support West Midlands Police in tackling rape and serious sexual offences
Birmingham Live 		29/11/2022
News
Hundreds of thousands of police hours spent on Just Stop Oil should’ve been spent investigating crime, says top Met Cop
Hundreds of thousands of hours of police time have been spent tackling Just Stop Oil protesters, LBC has learned, as the climate group returns to streets in the run-up to Christmas. The Met's Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said that a huge amount of time - 12,000 shifts' worth or many thousands of working hours - had been dedicated to clearing roads and patrolling motorways in an attempt to limit Just Stop Oil's disruption.
LBC 		29/11/2022
News
Scotland Yard launches hotline for public and police to report ‘racist and corrupt’ officers
The new Anti-Corruption and Abuse Command will investigate the anonymous complaints further
The Telegraph - Subscription at source 		29/11/2022
News
Armed police attend nearly double number of incidents
The number of incidents that have merited an armed response by police has almost doubled in a year. Figures given to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) show that armed officers have been summoned 65 times so far this year, up from 36 this time last year. Most incidents took place in Police Scotland’s eastern region: 36 disturbances there represent 55 per cent of all callouts. The report to the SPA said that armed activity has been above last year’s averages every month this year. A “spike in incidents” was recorded in July, with 39 callouts that month alone. The complaints and conduct committee, which holds Police Scotland to account, was told that subjects “with a mental health concern and in possession of an offensive weapon”
The Times - Subscription at source 		29/11/2022
News
Police crack down on protests after demonstrators call on President Xi Jinping to quit
CHINA: Xi Jingpeng is facing his toughest show of public defiance since becoming president of China
The Standard 		29/11/2022
News
Christmas market terror threats: An urgent review of protective security is required
A recent incident in which a car was driven into a crowded UK Christmas market has highlighted once again the vulnerabilities of such public festive events; while there were no injuries and the incident was not terror related, Policing Insight’s Andrew Staniforth argues that, given the sustained terror threat to crowded places, a review of protective security measures at Christmas markets is urgently needed.
Policing Insight - Subscription at source 		29/11/2022
Feature, Opinion
UK police fear people prevented from travelling to World Cup are behind football clashes in Tenerife
SPAIN: 'Major security operation' to be launched in Tenerife to prevent 'potential riots' and violence after the crunch England v Wales game
The Telegraph - Subscription at source 		29/11/2022
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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 		29/11/2022
News
Trans police officers shouldn’t strip-search women, says PCC
Transgender police officers should not be allowed to conduct female strip searches, Surrey’s Conservative police and crime commissioner has said.
The Times - Subscription at source 		29/11/2022
News
Rape survivors call for lower burden of proof
Survivors of rape and sexual assault are to urge a senior cabinet member to remove the need for corroboration, claiming it would open the “gateway to criminal justice”.
The Times - Subscription at source 		29/11/2022
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