Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 93921 total results. Showing results 26321 to 26340 «131313141315131613171318131913201321Next ›Last » Attempted murder of PSNI officer ‘vicious and grotesque’ Drew Harris shocked by Omagh shooting of 'dedicated police officer' as gardaí support PSNI with border controls and inquiries Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 23/2/2023 News Police Scotland chief constable to retire Sir Iain Livingstone has warned the force lacks sufficient funding The Times - Subscription at source 23/2/2023 News ‘She’s not in the river’: diving expert in Nicola Bulley case under the spotlight After three days of searching, Peter Faulding said he could guarantee the missing woman was not in the River Wyre. Then her body was found The Guardian 23/2/2023 News The police chief who stayed on to take the top job Just a year before Iain Livingstone took over as Police Scotland chief constable he had been preparing to take early retirement. BBC 23/2/2023 News Police Scotland chief constable to retire in summer Scotland's chief constable is to retire as the country's top police officer in the summer. Police Scotland 23/2/2023 News Letter to chief constables and police and crime commissioners CORRESPONDENCE: The Prime Minister recently set out that one of his crime priorities is to reduce burdens on the police from non-police activity. The Prime Minister and I want to see more police officers on the beat, investigating and preventing crime. Mental health demand pressures on many forces are taking officer time away from fighting crime. People in mental health crisis need to be seen by healthcare professionals to get the appropriate assessment or treatment in the right environment. Home Office 23/2/2023 Report Prison officer who smuggled drugs into jail sentenced to six years behind bars Heather McKenzie, 31, ferried cocaine and mobile phones into HMP Shotts in North Lanarkshire. The Independent 23/2/2023 News If we can accept the failing war on drugs is over, maybe we can win the peace As a veteran of the lengthy stakeouts of heroin dealers, cultivation of informants, and the stitches, lost teeth and broken bones that come with the war on drugs, former Police Scotland superintendent Martin Gallagher believes it’s time for international agreement that the failed war should be over – and for co-operation and collaboration in putting together a more effective plan for peace. Policing Insight 23/2/2023 Feature, Opinion New chief constable for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s first ‘home grown’ chief constable takes up his position today with a commitment to provide exceptional local policing. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary 23/2/2023 News Protecting against the Ferguson Effect: do legitimacy and pro-policing news matter? The Ferguson Effect is the argument that negative publicity on policing will cause officers to engage in de-policing. We explore this premise by examining the roles of legitimacy and media awareness in terms of police ability to protect against the negative impacts of such publicity. Officers from a midsize police agency in California were surveyed regarding media consumption and awareness, as well as perceptions of legitimacy. These factors were examined as to their ability to influence officer responses to post-Ferguson publicity. Officer awareness of pro-policing news coverage was related to lessened impact of negative publicity, but perceptions of media unfairness and awareness of negative policing news exerted a greater, and negative, influence. Media consumption and social media use were not found to be related to the impact of post-Ferguson coverage, but more nuanced measurement is warranted to capture the full range of news and social media interaction that officers have. Perceptions that the community viewed them with less legitimacy heightened impact of negative publicity as well, consistent with findings on officer concerns related to the effect of high-profile incidents on the public. Journal of Crime and Justice - Subscription at source 23/2/2023 Research article Ontario police strategy investigated 65 human trafficking cases in December 2021 CANADA: A group of 21 police services across Ontario has conducted 65 human trafficking investigations, helped 61 victims and charged 28 perpetrators since December 2021. CBC News (Canada) 23/2/2023 News Police-involved fatal incidents on the rise in Canada despite promises to curb violence CANADA: Police use of deadly force is rising in Canada despite pledges from political leaders to curb the violence. The Globe and Mail (Canada) - Subscription at source 23/2/2023 News Validating a novel tool for coding body worn camera footage of police-community member interactions Objectives: This study aimed to validate a tool for coding police body-worn camera (BWC) footage to measure the dynamics of police–community encounters, including items related to community members, officer performance, and situational outcomes. Methods: Over 1000 BWC videos were scored by five coders who participated in an iterative interrater reliability exercise to improve the agreement. Krippendorf's alphas and a multilevel simultaneous component analysis were used to assess interrater reliability and the component structure of ratings, respectively. Bootstrapped and multilevel exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to ascertain any underlying dimensions supporting officer and community member behavior, and cluster analyses were performed to examine whether interactions could be grouped into coherent categories. Results: The lower bound of unweighted means of bootstrapped alphas ranged from 0.67 to 0.96 depending upon item type, and 21.60% of the total variance in raters was between-subjects. Factor analyses revealed only a single factor (“defensiveness”) underlying four items related to hostility directed toward officers by community members. Cluster analyses described seven categories that were highly overlapping but conceptually plausible with cluster silhouette means ranging from −0.06 to 0.13. Conclusions: We validated a collection of interval-level coding metrics on a random sample of over 1000 interactions between police officers and community members recorded through BWCs. In doing so, we provide a roadmap for researchers and practitioners to effectively measure the dynamics of police–community encounters and officer performance within those encounters and a framework for addressing the validity and reliability of items in future studies involving the measurement of BWC footage. Criminology and Public Policy 23/2/2023 Research article Scotland to Sarnia: The unsolved murder of Morag Davies CANADA: “We have viewed the crime scene photos. Those images never leave us. No one deserves to die that way,” said Gail Longmuir Coltart. Blue Line (Canada) 23/2/2023 Feature What We Heard 2022 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: From its inception seven years ago, the Authority has welcomed and availed of the opportunity to meet with and learn from Garda members and staff on the one hand and organisations who work with and support communities on the other. [pdf] Policing Authority (Republic of Ireland) 23/2/2023 Report Policing Authority publishes What We Heard 2022 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Policing Authority has today published What We Heard 2022, a summary of its engagements nationwide with communities, groups and organisations, which focused on listening to the lived experience of policing within these communities. Policing Authority (Republic of Ireland) 23/2/2023 News €645,000 Drugs Seized and Three Arrests, Co. Cork and Co. Dublin, 23rd February 2023 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí have seized drugs to the value of €645,000 and arrested three persons following search operations in Co. Cork and Co. Dublin this morning, Thursday 22nd February 2023. An Garda Síochána 23/2/2023 News Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police: an experiment on positive video exposure and community-police relations Objective: Explore whether exposure to positive BWC videos – particularly, acts of heroism – affects public perceptions of police while accounting for existing trust in police. Method: An online vignette-style experiment was conducted in which participants’ (N = 407; x¯¯¯¯ age = 41.94 [s = 12.74]; 51% women, 80% White) existing trust in police was measured before random assignment to either view a short series of positive BWC videos or not. All participants then read a vignette describing a traffic stop. Participants reported their perceptions of procedural and distributive justice as well as perceptions of police more generally. Results: Participants with higher existing trust in police reported more positive evaluations across all outcomes measured. Exposure to positive BWC videos only increased reported willingness to cooperate with police. However, trust in police and exposure to BWC videos produced an interaction effect: when participants’ existing trust in police was low, viewing positive BWC videos improved evaluations of officer respect and procedural justice as well as willingness to cooperate with police. Participants with low trust in police who viewed the positive videos became more similar to participants with high existing trust in police. Conclusion: The findings indicate that exposure to positive BWC videos can moderate the negative effect of low trust in police. In an applied sense, the results suggest that police-community relations may be enhanced by circulating videos that depict acts of police heroism when such events have occurred and are captured on film. Policing and Society 23/2/2023 Research article John Caldwell: New IRA suspected in Omagh shooting of police officer High-profile detective was seriously wounded after being hit multiple times while off duty The Times - Subscription at source 23/2/2023 News Omagh shooting: New IRA ‘primary focus’ in officer attack investigation An attempted murder investigation has been launched after an off-duty police officer was shot at a sports complex in Omagh, County Tyrone, on Wednesday. Det Ch Insp John Caldwell was hit multiple times by two gunmen after coaching young people at football. BBC 23/2/2023 News «131313141315131613171318131913201321Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
