Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115545 total results. Showing results 23841 to 23860 «118911901191119211931194119511961197Next ›Last » Reimagining Community Safety: Perceptions of Policy and Practice in Five Cities The John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center and the Urban Institute helped the National League of Cities’ Center for Municipal Practice to support local government leaders in five U.S. cities as they worked to reimagine their visions for public safety. The Municipalities Reimagining Community Safety (MRCS) initiative was supported by the Wells Fargo Foundation’s Social Impact and Sustainability commitment. As research partner for the project, the Research and Evaluation Center (JohnJayREC) designed a three-wave survey focused on measuring the perceptions of local stakeholders involved in public safety efforts in each city. Results from the survey highlighted stakeholder opinions about the efficacy and equity of their city’s approaches to crime prevention and community well-being. Researchers explored trends across and within cities to assess the effects and success of the MRCS initiative. CRIMRXIV 21/9/2024 Research article Family of banker murdered 20 years ago rebuke ‘incompetent’ Police Scotland The family of a banker who was shot on his doorstep say they have lost confidence in Police Scotland as his murder remains unsolved almost 20 years on. Relatives of Alistair Wilson labelled the police “incompetent” and said they had lost trust in their ability to secure justice. The Guardian 21/9/2024 News Climate and war protests distracting police from protecting public, says Met chief Demonstrations by Just Stop Oil and pro-Palestine protesters have distracted the Metropolitan Police from protecting communities, the force’s chief has claimed. Sir Mark Rowley said that officers deployed to large demonstrations could have been used to investigate “crime, robberies, burglaries and chasing down wanted offenders”. The Standard 21/9/2024 News Crime victims in UK fight ‘devastating’ practice that stops appeal after a case is dropped Senior law officers urged to intervene over potential wrongful acquittals when Crown Prosecution Service offers no evidence The Guardian 21/9/2024 News GSPS body-worn cameras to roll out in 2025 pilot project CANADA: Greater Sudbury Police Service staff plan to begin rolling out body-worn cameras as part of a pilot project in 2025. Sudbury.com (Canada) 21/9/2024 News One in 20 Australian adults found to have suffered reproductive coercion and abuse AUSTRALIA: One in 20 Australian adults found to have suffered reproductive coercion and abuse Australian Study of Health and Relationships finds 3.9% of women aged 16-69 had experienced contraceptive interference and 4.9% forced abortion The Guardian 21/9/2024 News Commissioner Webb pushes to sack former top cop’s nephew AUSTRALIA: Top cop Karen Webb has recommended the nephew of her predecessor Mick Fuller be sacked from the force — even though he was found not guilty of showing a sex video to colleagues. The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 News ‘Burnout service’: Qld cops paid $72m in overtime in just seven months AUSTRALIA: Government documents have revealed taxpayers forked out a whopping $72m for police overtime in just seven months, a $11m jump compared to the same period last year. The Courier Mail (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 News Size isn’t everything: Understanding the relationship between police workforce and crime problems If and how policing affects crime has long been studied. On the relationship between police force size and crime, different authors come to different conclusions. This study examines the relationship between police resourcing, including workforce size, structure and stability over time using data for 42 police forces in the UK over a 13-year period. We construct two novel panel datasets. The first comprises measures of police workforce Size, Structure and Stability. The second provides measures of both crime frequency and crime severity. Issues of endogeneity make the modelling of the police-crime association complicated. Consequently, we analyse the data using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model which is capable of forecasting a temporal sequence of the interdependencies between police-crime relationships. Changes in total police personnel play an important role in reducing both crime frequency and severity, but the findings are more nuanced than this. Results highlight that the structure and stability of police organisations are important although these impacts are not always the same for crime volume and crime severity. We find that increases in frontline (non-sworn) support staff are associated with reductions in crime, while turnover rates of police staff are associated with increases in crime. In contrast, changes to the number of sworn police officers do not appear to be a good predictor of crime volume. The findings suggest that investment in frontline support staff and the development of strategies to retain skills and knowledge by reducing staff turnover may be efficient approaches for Police Forces to maximise the impact on crime of their workforce in resource-pressed policing settings. While previous research has found that police force size has a limited effect on crime, our findings indicate that more nuanced measurements of police resourcing are necessary to understand how police impact upon crime risk. The idea of police forces using basic officer-to-population ratios to make staffing decisions appears outdated and over-simplistic. Journal of Criminal Justice 21/9/2024 Research article Rural crime is a ‘huge priority’ for police in NI – PSNI Rural crime is a “huge priority” for police, according to the rural crime lead for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). But according to Superintendent Johnston McDowell this type of crime is a “much wider issue” than simply plant theft, livestock theft, cold-calling and burglaries. AgriLand 21/9/2024 News Five reasons why police oversight and accountability are important As Thames Valley Police’s decision to expand its public scrutiny panels to include oversight of officers’ use of force video footage brings the issue of scrutiny back into the media, Montell Neufville, police ethics advisor and Chair of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Police Scrutiny Panel overseeing road police and armed police across the three counties, sets out five key reasons why he believes oversight and accountability are crucial to effective policing. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 Analysis, Feature, Opinion Officer who put Taser to the neck of boy during stop and search given final written warning An officer who held a Taser to the neck of a 16-year-old black boy during a stop and search in southeast London has been given a final written warning. Police Professional 20/9/2024 News Police watchdog sorry over Hillsborough letters The police watchdog has apologised for what have been described as "abhorrent, degrading and cruel" letters it sent to people affected by the Hillsborough disaster. BBC 20/9/2024 News New eyes in the sky on the way for Durham cops and other police services CANADA: The Ontario government will spend $134M on five state-of-the-art helicopters for cops in Durham, Peel and Halton and the OPP Toronto Sun (Canada) 20/9/2024 News Police ‘scared’ to tell recruits what to do over fears of misconduct claims, former detective says Jackie Malton, the real life Prime Suspect detective, has been told by an officer that policing has become ‘cannibalistic’ The Telegraph - Subscription at source 20/9/2024 News Rape reported every hour in London A rape offence is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC. More than 8,800 rape incidents were reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2023 - an average of 24 a day. BBC 20/9/2024 News Sudbury announces new chief of police CANADA: Sara Cunningham, who had been serving as deputy chief, has been selected as the new chief of police in Greater Sudbury. Cunningham replaces Paul Pederson, who left in June to become the executive director of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. CTV News (Canada) 20/9/2024 News Jamar Powell: Met Police officer who put Taser to Black teenager’s neck during stop given final warning Police watchdog says ‘no need’ for Taser to be placed on boy’s neck to handcuff him when he was already kneeling on road The Standard 20/9/2024 News Prince Albert police ask residents to voluntarily register home security cameras to help reduce crime CANADA: The Prince Albert Police Service is asking for the public's help reducing crime. It hopes to do this by having residents voluntarily register their outward-facing security cameras with police. The program is called the Safe Neighbourhood Camera Registry. It's a secure web system that allows residents and businesses to register that they have security cameras and would be willing to share imagery should a crime happen in view of the camera. Prince Albert police say they believe this will give them quicker access to potential evidence. CBC News (Canada) 20/9/2024 News Officer used police database to snoop on friends, colleagues NEW ZEALAND: An officer used the police database like a “social media application” to snoop on his partner, family members, friends, neighbours, people he saw on social media, other police officers and gang members he had no reason to be investigating. 1 News (New Zealand) 20/9/2024 News «118911901191119211931194119511961197Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
