Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 93847 total results. Showing results 26921 to 26940 «134313441345134613471348134913501351Next ›Last » Police raid south-east Queensland properties, shut down ‘sophisticated’ drug trafficking syndicate AUSTRALIA: Police have shut down a major drug trafficking syndicate in south-east Queensland, allegedly seizing over 18 kilograms of methylamphetamine and more than half a million dollars cash. ABC News (Australia) 7/2/2023 News Magistrate grants girl bail amid concern she would join dozens of children held in adult watch houses for weeks AUSTRALIA: A Queensland magistrate who previously raised concerns about children being held in “harsh” conditions in adult watch houses has granted bail to a teenage girl after saying he was “conscious” that she may otherwise end up in one. The Guardian 7/2/2023 News AFP joins international law enforcement agencies to deliver joint warning about global financial sextortion AUSTRALIA: The AFP is working with a global taskforce that will take rapid and coordinated action against criminals financially sextorting youth. Australian Federal Police (AFP) 7/2/2023 News Online blackmail: Over 600 sextortion complaints made to police in 2 years NEW ZEALAND: Children as young as 10 are being targeted for sexploitation by sophisticated international criminals. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 7/2/2023 News Christchurch youth justice facility to conduct review after five young people broke out NEW ZEALAND: Five young people broke out and onto the roof of a youth justice facility in Christchurch last night. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 7/2/2023 News Defendants of colour more likely to be charged than white people, finds CPS study Mixed ethnicity suspects in England and Wales charged 10 percentage points higher than rate of white counterparts for similar offences The Guardian 7/2/2023 News David Carrick jailed for life over series of rapes while Met police officer Carrick, 48, admitted 85 serious offences during 17-year campaign of terror and attacks against women The Guardian 7/2/2023 News David Carrick: Serial rapist Met Police officer jailed for at least 30 years Serial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years. BBC 7/2/2023 News Statement following sentencing of David Carrick The sentencing this week of serial rapist PC David Carrick has once again cast a shadow on all those who work within policing across England and Wales. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 7/2/2023 News Independent inquiry expanded to examine David Carrick’s offending The Home Secretary said David Carrick’s crimes were a “scar on our police” as she expanded the terms of an inquiry into high-profile offences committed by Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers. Police Professional 7/2/2023 News Police Scotland officer numbers rise slightly after year of decline The number of Police Scotland officers saw a small increase towards the end of 2022, after falling sharply over the previous 12 months. Police Professional 7/2/2023 News ‘Impressive’ multi-agency response introduced at IOMC, but room for improvement, report finds The Isle of Man Constabulary (IOMC) has introduced an “impressive multi-agency operation” to address the threat posed by serious organised crime and the criminal exploitation of young and vulnerable people, an inspection has found. Police Professional 7/2/2023 News Former MPS officer David Carrick jailed for minimum of 30 years for ‘unspeakably evil’ crimes against women Former Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officer David Carrick has been handed 36 life sentences for an appalling catalogue of crimes against women. Police Professional 7/2/2023 News Measuring crime: a new paradigm Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory study is to expand on a previously developed crime harm index – the California Crime Harm Index (CA-CHI) – by discussing the development of the CA-CHI and presenting a comparison of the distribution of crime count and harm in a large Western city in the United States. Design/methodology/approach: This study used descriptive analyses, spatial univariate mapping and bivariate choropleth maps to analyze the distribution of Part I crime counts and harm. Findings: Results of the analysis show that while there was some variation in the distribution of crime count and harm city wide, spatial mapping and statistics reveal that the geographical distribution of crime count and harm across census tracts are largely consistent. Research limitations/implications: Minor discrepancies between the distribution of crime count and harm indicate the potential for the CA-CHI to inform law enforcement practices. However, the distributions remain largely similar at the census tract level. There is room for further development of the CA-CHI to better distinguish between the distribution of crime harm and volume. Originality/value: No other study has used spatial mapping techniques like bivariate choropleth mapping to examine the distribution of crime volume and crime harm based on the CA-CHI in any location in California. Policing: An International Journal - Subscription at source 7/2/2023 Research article ‘Lack of consistency’ in policing of protests, says Police Ombudsman The Police Ombudsman has concluded that the police investigation into a ‘Protect Our Monuments’ protest in Belfast was “closed prematurely” following a failure to access and exploit intelligence, which may have led to the identification of the protest organisers. Police Professional 7/2/2023 News As an ex police officer, this much is clear: after Carrick, we need new policing and may need to scrap the Met So many warnings about a toxic culture have gone unheeded. Policing is based on trust – as things stand, it can’t survive The Guardian 7/2/2023 Feature, Opinion ‘I’m worried’: Head of B.C.’s police watchdog says staffing levels critical CANADA: Staff and resources at the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) are stretched so thin that important cases are taking longer than they should to be resolved. Global News (Canada) 7/2/2023 News Protesters take over Hamilton council chambers, demanding councillors reject police budget CANADA: A crowd of nearly 100 protesters overtook a Hamilton committee meeting Monday night, filling council chambers and demanding councillors vote against a proposed $12-million police budget increase. CBC News (Canada) 7/2/2023 News Creating a culture of care through active bystandership training CANADA: Over the past two years, police services throughout Canada have witnessed increased calls from their communities for multi-faceted changes to policing, collectively grouped into terms such as police modernization and police reform. Blue Line (Canada) 7/2/2023 Feature Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation Discretion is a key feature of policing, yet its surrounding research has historically been heavily reliant upon exploring interpersonal or dyadic encounters between individual officers and members of the public. More recently, studies have explored how discretionary decisions by police officers impact upon and interact with group-level and organisational processes but few studies have explored the relevance of discretion to debates in the literature on public order policing. Correspondingly, there is to date only a limited body of research exploring the nature and dynamics of dialogue-based football-related public order policing. This study addresses these combined gaps by drawing upon data from interviews with specialist football officers, referred to as ‘spotters’ or Dedicated Football Officers, from five English police forces. Our analysis critiques the idea that these specialist roles revolve merely around the surveillance, categorisation and enforcement of fans who are considered to pose a risk to public order. We highlight how these officers understand their roles in terms of the use of discretion. We argue that in a complex intergroup environment officers utilise discretion to manage perceptions of their legitimacy among supporters. This ‘social capital’ in turn enhances their capacity to de-escalate and avoid disorder through the promotion of self-regulatory behaviour. We discuss the relevance of our study for theoretical approaches to understanding discretion and consider the implications of our analysis for developing a more formal dialogue-focused and discretion-based approach to football crowd policing in and beyond England and Wales. Policing and Society 7/2/2023 Research article «134313441345134613471348134913501351Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
