Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104882 total results. Showing results 2201 to 2220 «107108109110111112113114115Next ›Last » £250,000 drug report giving police ‘even more complexities and issues’ if cannabis legalised The London Drugs Commission (LDC) released a 320-page report, titled The cannabis conundrum: a way forward for London’, last month, which included removing the Class B substance from the Misuse of Drugs Act, and instead regulating it under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 News Race and lack of accountability involved in Child Q strip search, tribunal hears A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, on December 2020 after being wrongly being accused of carrying cannabis. The Independent 18/6/2025 News Met Police tutor dismissed after biting student on neck and touching her thigh Pc Chris Lee was a Street Duties instructor/tutor on one of the force’s Borough Command Units. The Independent 18/6/2025 News ‘We believe our police are careful not to unduly harass you ladies and gentlemen’ – an examination of the relationship between the police of Cheshire and the motoring public, 1896–1939 In the year ending June 2023, magistrates’ courts in England and Wales dealt with a total of 711,000 summary motoring offences (Gov.UK, [2023a]. Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly June 2023. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2023/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-june-2023-html.), whilst the total number of motoring-related fixed penalty notices issued in England and Wales for the year ending December 2022 exceeded 2.8 million (Gov.UK [2023b]. Police powers and procedures. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/other-pace-powers-year-ending-march-2023/police-powers-and-procedures-other-pace-powers-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2023#fixed-penalty-notices-and-other-outcomes-for-motoring-offences.). Such offences are a major part of the workload of the police today, but relatively little has been written about the earliest such interactions between police and the motoring public. This article examines specifically the work of the police forces of Cheshire regarding their relationship with the ever-increasing motoring public in the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on the interactions between the police and that section of the burgeoning middle-class who readily embraced the use of privately-owned motor cars. This rapid growth brought with it a concomitant increase in friction between the motor-owning population and the police. Such interactions highlight the practical problems faced by the police officer at work together with their relationship with a sector of the population with whom they would have previously had little contact on a professional basis as offenders. The article will show that police officers frequently had to negotiate their way around such deferential attitudes in order to enforce the ever-increasing number of laws being passed regarding motor car use and the ways in which they behaved towards their perceived social superiors. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation This article demonstrates how historical and longitudinal inquiry – including a deep dive into archival sources – can add to our understanding of the processes of change and how they happen within the policing organisation. Using frameworks adapted from Feminist Institutionalism, it identifies variations in the type and pace of change across time, shows that trajectories were uneven and not one way, and explains how historical actors have operated within (and interacted with) institutional and contextual parameters in gendered ways and with gendering effects. Focusing on the debates surrounding the introduction, implementation and mobilisation of the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act (and equivalent legislation for Northern Ireland), it analyses the strategies and tools used by exogenous actors, relationships with internal actors, and capacity to produce internal change. Concentrating on the 1970s–1990s, it sets this within the broader trajectory of women’s appointment as police officers from 1915, the layering in of the separate structure of Policewomen’s Departments, and the work of senior female officers and members of the inspectorate in effecting slow, gradualist and pragmatic expansion of numbers and remit prior to the 1970s. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article The ‘Peelian Principles’: their historical and contemporary veracity Both popular and ‘official’ sources posit that a set of nine definitive principles were authored to shape the working practices of the new Metropolitan Police (and all subsequent British forces) on its foundation in 1829 by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel. These are colloquially referred to as the ‘Peelian Principles’ or ‘Peel’s Principles’. Today they are taught to all new police officers on the Police Entry Qualifications Framework (PEQF); as well as venerated by senior officers and policing inspectorates. Revisionist history, however, demonstrates that these nine commandments are, in all likelihood, an invention of the mid-twentieth century, apparently based on a summary of ideas extrapolated from Peel’s (alongside joint Commissioners Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne’s) early writings regarding police functions. This article intends to build on this insight into their origins through an examination of their relevance and veracity of whether they could have existed as codified in the first century of British policing at all; alongside whether they could or do hold true today. It seeks to do this by examining the historical context of policing in the Victorian era in relation to the Principles; whilst concurrently examining contemporary policing in the same manner. It concludes that whilst some of the principles can be examined in both eras, there are significant questions around their validity during both timeframes, thus raising questions of whether they should be placed on the pedestal they currently are. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article A complete turnaround: police and gay men 1950–2010 The remarkable turnaround within policing in England and Wales between 1950 and 2010 in relation to gay and bisexual men reflects both the change within society as well as legislation requiring equality and diversity. Change came about largely because the police service had to respond to changes outside their organisation, but latterly some change has been driven from within the organisation. The changes have enabled some gay and bisexual men to flourish within the police force and secure the confidence of people who in the past had good reason to fear the police. It has also given lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people more confidence to report attacks on them. However, beneath the broad brush headlines, there is a complex history with many variations, particularly in the period 1950–1990. What may have happened in one police force, or even one police district, is not necessarily replicated in another force or area. Other than in North America, few detailed historical studies of police operating in this field have been published. Based on research into official archives, contemporary reports, first-hand accounts of retired police officers and examination of the reporting of cases, the author examines the changes over a sixty-year period in the way the police approached homosexuality both within society, as well as within the police service itself, thus providing a short history of this theme. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note This research note provides an exploratory analysis of a remarkable – and broadly available – set of documents from the early twentieth century. This preliminary study examined one month of police call logs and warrant books from Pensacola, Florida, in December 1912. Combining perspectives from history, geography, and police practice, the authors integrated these records with digitised spatial data using Geographic Information System (GIS). The analysis revealed significant racial disparities in arrest patterns, unexpected temporal trends in policing activity, and compelling spatial concentrations of law enforcement interactions. This project suggests the potential of applying modern analytical techniques to historical police datasets in order to yield meaningful insights into the evolution of policing practices and their societal impacts. It highlights the wealth of untapped historical arrest records available for similar studies across the United States, suggesting avenues for future comparative research that bridges historical analysis with contemporary policing concerns. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article The Blue-Coat Rebellion, the police of Galashiels have struck: the Inspector of Constabulary and a small Scottish Burgh This article concerns an incident on 15 August 1874. That night the officers of Galashiels Burgh Police were instructed to extinguish the town’s gas lamps. The constables refused and the entire force was sacked by their Superintendent. The burgh was left unpoliced for around ten days. This episode highlights three themes that all small Scottish towns in the mid-nineteenth century would have recognised; a drive for police efficiency, a significant change in the role of the constable, and the increasing centralisation of police forces. The introduction of the Inspector of Constabulary contributed to these elements, empowered to pay or withhold a government grant, depending on the ‘efficiency’ of the force while small establishments were encouraged to amalgamate with their county constabularies. This tended to promote a move away from the traditional Scottish model which embraced many roles in local government, all promoting the public good. This case study of a set of events that unfolded in Galashiels in the 1870s was reconstructed through historical research using archival and published sources. It highlights the link between the themes shown in the 1870s strike and the formation of Police Scotland; the establishment of both the Inspector of Constabulary and, over 150 years later, a national police force. These reveal continuities relating to issues of governance and organisation and facilitated a move in policing from the local to the centre. Policing and Society - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 Research article Ex-PC had sex with colleague in police station A former constable who had sex with a colleague in rooms at a police station was found to have committed gross misconduct. BBC 18/6/2025 News ACT Budget: $3.7 million to repair failing police stations and plan for new ones AUSTRALIA: A new home for the ACT’s police remains a long way off, but there is money in next week’s Budget to fix ongoing issues at the struggling Winchester and city facilities, and to identify a site for a new headquarters and station in the CBD. Region Canberra (Australia) 18/6/2025 News The role of the police in disaster management This article shows the conditions under which the police in Britain manage national and local disasters by working closely with those providing a service to alleviate the situation, both today and in previous times. I compare the work of the police in two periods beginning with the present: the 2021 COVID-19 disaster related to the London and the South Western ambulance services, compared with food insecurity in the last two years of the First World War, to demonstrate how the police in both eras managed the population while helping to provide an essential service. Both examples convey that helping the population and communities during disasters is a legitimate role for the police which helps to maintain public order and brings them closer to the communities they serve, thereby increasing the credibility of policing by consent. Police involvement in disaster management today while tracing its roots to similar conduct in an earlier time, highlights the changes in the social and cultural context of policing. Following today’s practices back in time foregrounds the present in the context of the past. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies This paper examines the policing of marginalised groups in colonial Australia, and the legacies of these practices. While scholars have recognised that police officers were at the forefront of the creation of a new social order in the Australian colonies, there have been limited analyses of how officers negotiated their roles and operated in practice within the communities that they policed. Focusing on Queensland, this article examines the ‘suspect communities’ who were heavily monitored and criminalised by police: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and non-European immigrant groups, primarily from China and Pacific Islands. It draws mainly on the evidence provided by the Queensland Police Gazette of policing practices and arrests, alongside parliamentary reports and relevant newspaper reports on policing, to reveal how policing operated on the ground. The decisions taken by police officers to suspect and apprehend individuals from these ‘suspect communities’ in significant numbers shaped and perpetuated wider societal stereotypes of criminality. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article Reflecting on the past to transform the future: exploring the role of history in policing reform By its very nature, policing focuses on the present – dealing with immediate demand and responding to emergencies. However, this leaves little space for reflecting on or learning from the past. Changes in policing practice often occur as a reaction to an incident rather than through a planned programme of reform. This paper argues that this reactive change process has contributed to a cycle of scandals in policing, such as around misconduct, use of force and discrimination. It asserts that sustainable reform can best occur through empowering police officers to develop a historical perspective – thinking critically and strategically about where policing is and how it got there. This paper proposes a new framework through which the study of police history can be used, not only to inform current practice, but to improve the professionalism and legitimacy of the service and asks what can and should be done to embed the study of history into police education. At a time when new technological developments mean change is happening with increasing rapidity, it is more important than ever for policing to learn the lessons of the past to better avoid the mistakes of the future. Policing and Society - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 Research article Police officer denies sexually assaulting woman A police officer has denied multiple sexual assaults on a woman over a two-year period. BBC 18/6/2025 News Assistant Commissioner denies allowing psychometric test exemptions for police recruits NEW ZEALAND: Police Assistant Commissioner Jill Rogers allowed recruits who failed psychometric tests to re-sit the assessment until they passed, according to a source. Rogers says she doesn’t believe she did allow such exemptions. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 18/6/2025 News Police Minister blames Labour government for police recruit exemptions NEW ZEALAND: The Police Minister's office says the use of discretion over police college recruits who had not passed a literacy test was introduced in 2018 under the Labour government. It comes after the minister Mark Mitchell and Police Commissioner Richard Chambers were challenged over revelations an Assistant Commissioner personally signed off at least two exemptions from recruitment standards. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 18/6/2025 News Police officer found not guilty of using restricted database to track former partner AUSTRALIA: An experienced Queensland police officer has been found not guilty of using a restricted computer without consent, after it was alleged he used a police database to track the whereabouts of his former partner. ABC News (Australia) 18/6/2025 News What Do We Mean by De-Escalation in Police-Citizen Encounters? A Scoping Review on Conceptualization, Techniques, and Effectiveness This paper aims to support the growing scope of research investigating the effectiveness of de-escalation by police officers. Through a scoping review, we conceptualize de-escalation in police-citizen interactions by identifying the different components of de-escalation, the techniques it entails, and what we know about the effectiveness of these techniques. A comprehensive search of five databases (i.e., Criminal Justice Abstracts, APA PsycInfo, Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) yielded 18 studies in the police and public order domain that described at least one de-escalation technique as part of their data. By summarizing and synthesizing the literature, we provide a framework of de-escalation and a detailed overview of all techniques found in the included literature. We conclude that the measures of effectiveness for de-escalation techniques vary, limiting the evidence base of what works de-escalating. We offer suggestions for future research to build upon these results and expand the evidence base on the efficiency of de-escalation techniques, as well as provide directions on how the results can be useful in developing de-escalation training. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 Research article Pilot project aimed at improving support for victims of stalking launched in Merseyside. The pilot has been funded by PCC Emily Spurrell, and will be delivered by MDVS (the Merseyside Domestic Violence and Stalking service). Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 News «107108109110111112113114115Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
