Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 101034 total results. Showing results 22801 to 22820 «113711381139114011411142114311441145Next ›Last » Police bin unjust surveillance amid ‘bombshell’ report AUSTRALIA: A "bombshell" audit has found an intensive police program that overwhelmingly targeted young Indigenous youth and led to repeated midnight check-ups was unreasonable, unjust and oppressive. Once defended by a minister as "a world-leading crime prevention initiative", the Suspect Target Management Program aimed to proactively engage, disrupt and divert potential recidivists in NSW. However, the state's police watchdog has found a revolving door of ill-advised officers frequently became highly intrusive in a child's life, with some acting unlawfully and most ignoring complex needs. The Canberra Times (Australia) 30/10/2023 News Operation Tepito Final Report AUSTRALIA: The Commission's Final Report in Operation Tepito provides our analysis and observations about the application of the NSW Police Force Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) on children and young people. This report details our concerns, and the NSW Police Force Response. NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) (Australia) 30/10/2023 Report Media Release – Operation Tepito Final Report AUSTRALIA: The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has issued a final report in its long-running investigation about the NSW Police Force’s use of the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP) on children and young people today. The Commission’s report, known as Operation Tepito, details the Commission’s significant concerns with the application of the STMP on young people, including observations that some STMP-related policing interactions with young people were, or may have, been unlawful. NSW Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) (Australia) 30/10/2023 News ‘Highly intrusive’: NSW police dump proactive policing of children after watchdog warns it could be unlawful AUSTRALIA: Law Enforcement Conduct Commission finds the suspect targeting management plan (STMP) has ‘discriminatory effect’ on young people The Guardian 30/10/2023 News Project Pegasus and new retail crime action plan launched to target organised shop thefts Project Pegasus, a new police team using organised crime gang intelligence and retail crime gang data, has been launched to target the “rampant rise” in shoplifting in the UK as part of the Government’s new Retail Crime Action Plan, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 30/10/2023 Analysis, Feature Police use cannabis farm to train AI drones to spot illegally grown crops NEW ZEALAND: Police have been using a medicinal cannabis farm to train drones using artificial intelligence (AI) to identify illegal marijuana crops elsewhere. Police said the training exercise, at a South Island farm that had Ministry of Health approval to grow cannabis, was designed to see if cannabis could be “detected by a specialist camera system”. Stuff (New Zealand) 30/10/2023 News Christchurch terror attack inquest: Senior police communicator admits priority of 111 call should have been upgraded NEW ZEALAND: The horrifying scene which confronted emergency services at Al Noor Mosque on the day of the Christchurch terror attack has been described by a member of the Armed Offenders Squad. And a detective superintendent has said he wished he handled a situation better when he mistook a delayed feed of the terrorist's livestream as live. The inquest into the attacks on Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre, where 51 worshippers were murdered on 15 March 2019, earlier heard from a senior police communicator who admitted that a call containing vital information about the terrorist's plans should have been treated with the highest priority and shared widely among the police. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 30/10/2023 News Police say events in Israel and Gaza ‘accelerating’ UK terror threat Ministers will attend a COBRA meeting today after the Metropolitan Police Commissioner warned of an increased terrorism threat in the UK [VIDEO]. ITV News 30/10/2023 News Hizb ut-Tahrir could be banned, Met Police chief suggests after Islamic group’s UK head is revealed as NHS GP Sir Mark Rowley said group was example of how UK could be 'sharper' in laws Mail Online 30/10/2023 News Report finds NSW Police suspect lists led to ‘gross over-representation’ of Indigenous people AUSTRALIA: A discontinued NSW Police policy that attempted to proactively prevent crime through suspect lists led to an over-representation of young Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people as targets, a report has found. ABC News (Australia) 30/10/2023 News ‘Unprecedented interest’: Lucrative pay and housing packages lure police to Australia NEW ZEALAND: It may be the land of snakes and spiders but lucrative pay and housing packages are luring an unprecedented number of New Zealand police officers across the Tasman. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 30/10/2023 News Don’t change the driving laws – just enforce the ones there! REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: I saw a cartoon recently somewhere which depicted Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly filling a bucket with water. Echo Live (Republic of Ireland) 30/10/2023 Feature, Opinion Vast majority of burglaries and car thefts remain unsolved, Home Office data shows Police forces in England and Wales have committed to visit the scene of every house burglary and to pursue all lines of enquiry The Telegraph - Subscription at source 30/10/2023 News Policing minister urges forces to double use of facial recognition software It comes despite a cross-party group of MPs and peers calling for the use of live facial recognition technology to stop immediately The Standard 29/10/2023 News Britain is ‘omni-surveillance’ society, watchdog warns Fraser Sampson says law is not keeping up with AI advances as police retain 3m images of innocent people The Guardian 29/10/2023 News Scandal of police failure to protect vulnerable women Police are missing crucial opportunities that could protect hundreds of thousands of domestic abuse victims, by failing to impose emergency restraining orders on their alleged attackers – a state of affairs that Labour has pledged to put an end to. The Independent 29/10/2023 News Israel-Hamas war is accelerating terrorism in UK, says Mark Rowley Country is facing 'challenging time' as Met Police chief warns on lone wolf attack The Telegraph - Subscription at source 29/10/2023 News Met chief says police will be ‘ruthless’ at pro-Palestine marches in London Mark Rowley says officers will ‘robustly enforce up to the line of the law’ and warns war is ‘accelerating’ terror threat in UK The Guardian 29/10/2023 News Letter to police on AI enabled facial recognition searches The Policing Minister writes to police chiefs to set out the importance of harnessing innovative technologies to support police in preventing and solving crimes Home Office 29/10/2023 News Met to increase intelligence gathering in London schools amid Gaza tensions Exclusive: Human rights groups voice alarm as letter to headteachers reveals plan for more visible patrols The Guardian 29/10/2023 News «113711381139114011411142114311441145Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
