Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103267 total results. Showing results 28221 to 28240 «140814091410141114121413141414151416Next ›Last » Police Scotland sets out its five-year Digital Strategy Police Scotland has finalised its new Digital Strategy that sets the direction for future investment and prioritisation of technology for policing in Scotland. Police Professional 22/8/2023 News GMP rolls out domestic abuse response cars Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has rolled out dedicated domestic abuse patrol vehicles to allow officers to “promptly respond to domestic incidents” and safeguard victims. Police Professional 22/8/2023 News Former officer convicted of assault after fight at bar A former Thames Valley Police officer who became involved in a fight at a bar in Oxford has been convicted of three counts of assault following a hearing at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court. Police Professional 22/8/2023 News Pain-inducing restraint to be banned in England and Wales children’s prisons New Ministry of Justice policy says such techniques must only be used in emergency scenarios The Guardian 22/8/2023 News Are Police Officers Bayesians? Police Updating in Investigative Stops Theories of rational behavior assume that actors make decisions where the benefits of their acts exceed their costs or losses. If those expected costs and benefits change over time, the behavior will change accordingly as actors learn and internalize the parameters of success and failure. In the context of proactive policing, police stops that achieve any of several goals—constitutional compliance, stops that lead to “good” arrests or summonses, stops that lead to seizures of weapons, drugs, or other contraband, or stops that produce good will and citizen cooperation—should signal to officers the features of a stop that increase its rewards or benefits. Having formed a subjective estimate of success (i.e., prior beliefs), officers should observe their outcomes in subsequent encounters and form updated probability estimates, with specific features of the event, with a positive weight on those features. Officers should also learn the features of unproductive stops and adjust accordingly. A rational actor would pursue “good” or “productive” stops and avoid “unproductive” stops by updating their knowledge of these features through experience. We analyze data on 4.9 million Terry stops in New York City from 2004–2016 to estimate the extent of updating by officers in the New York Police Department. We compare models using a frequentist analysis of officer behavior with a Bayesian analysis where subsequent events are weighted by the signals from prior events. By comparing productive and unproductive stops, the analysis estimates the weights or values—an experience effect—that officers assign to the signals of each type of stop outcome. We find evidence of updating using both analytic methods, although the “hit rates”—our measure of stop productivity including recovery of firearms or arrests for criminal behavior—remain low. Updating is independent of total officer stop activity each month, suggesting that learning may be selective and specific to certain stop features. However, hit rates decline as officer stop activity increases. Both updating and hit rates improved as stop rates declined following a series of internal memoranda and trial orders beginning in May 2012. There is also evidence of differential updating by officers conditional on a variety of features of prior and current stops, including suspect race and stop legality. Though our analysis is limited to NYPD stops, given the ubiquity of policing regimes of intensive stop and frisk encounters across the United States, the relevance of these findings reaches beyond New York City. These regimes reveal tensions between the Terry jurisprudence of reasonable suspicion and evidence on contemporary police practices across the country. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 22/8/2023 Research article Officer charged with perjury over Police Scotland sexism case A police inspector who gave evidence in an employment tribunal that found a female officer was victimised has been charged with perjury. BBC 22/8/2023 News Victoria Police launches new ‘holistic’ strategy to detect and divert youngsters at risk of gang activity With “more mobile, connected” youth gangs responsible for “an escalation in the harm that they can cause to the community and themselves”, Victoria Police has launched a new holistic and integrated approach to detect those most at risk of gang activity, divert them from gang involvement, and disrupt the gang-related violent offending that has been taking place, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 22/8/2023 Analysis, Feature, Innovation Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 22/8/2023 News PSNI data breach: Man in court on terrorism-related charges A 50-year-old man has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences linked to the major data breach by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). BBC 22/8/2023 News Police chief says bad role models to blame for making knife crime seem ‘normal’ Unsuitable role models and violent music videos are playing their part in making knife crime seem 'normal', according to a senior police officer. Detective Chief Superintendent Lee Berry has taken the reins of the Home Office-funded West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) as its new Director. Yorkshire Live 22/8/2023 News ‘How many deaths will it take?’ Women’s leader tells WA government to step up AUSTRALIA: A prominent figure in the women’s safety sector has accused the West Australian premier and his cabinet of being missing in action as the sector reels from yet more domestic violence deaths and shocking new data resulting in only more ‘action plans’. The spate of horrific deaths of Perth women has most recently included Georgia Lyall and Tiffany Woodley, allegedly killed by men they had been in relationships with. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) - Subscription at source 22/8/2023 News Improving police training in spectrum management can increase trust and reduce harm An arrest earlier this month of an autistic 16-year-old girl by officers in West Yorkshire for a suspected ‘homophobic public order offence’ received widespread attention after her mother posted a video of the incident; University of Hull Policing Degree Programme Director and former officer Mike McKue, and Senior Lecturer in Criminology Dr Meron Wondemaghen, believe more police training in understanding and responding to neurodiversity can improve trust in policing and reduce harm. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 22/8/2023 Feature, Opinion Met police rapist ‘had numbers for 751 women’ Adam Provan is facing life in jail for sex attacks carried out while serving in force The Times - Subscription at source 22/8/2023 News NT Police overwhelmed by rising crime and lack of resources AUSTRALIA: The Northern Territory Police Association has said its officers are overwhelmed by rising crime rates and a lack of resources. President Nathan Finn told Sky News Australia that failed government policies are increasing the workload of officers struggling to cope. News.com.au (Australia) 22/8/2023 News, Video Plans underway to tackle Alice Springs’ summer crime spike, police minister backs behavioural program AUSTRALIA: Following record-breaking levels of crime and violence in Alice Springs last summer, NT Police say this year will look "markedly different". The Central Australian town experienced a surge in criminal damage and break-ins over December and January, sparking national attention and culminating in an emergency visit by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. ABC News (Australia) 22/8/2023 News Avon and Somerset Police officer said George Floyd ‘deserved to die’, panel told An Avon and Somerset Police officer told a woman that George Floyd deserved to die “because he was a criminal”, a misconduct panel heard this week. ITV News 22/8/2023 News Peter Dutton reveals he has PTSD after decades-long career as a police officer AUSTRALIA: The Opposition Leader has opened up about the traumatic scenes he witnessed as a young police officer in Queensland. News.com.au (Australia) 22/8/2023 News Your Nova Scotia RCMP: 2022 CANADA: As the provincial police, the Nova Scotia RCMP is committed to preventing crime and creating safer communities from one end of the province to the other. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 22/8/2023 Report Roads and Armed Policing Team’s Insp Gary Miller: ‘The RAPT team deal with the highest threat incidents…’ As part of a week's filming for PolicingTV with Suffolk Constabulary, the Roads and Armed Policing Team's (RAPT) Inspector Gary Miller spoke to PolicingTV's Founder and Publisher, Bernard Rix, at Force Headquarters near Ipswich. PolicingTV 22/8/2023 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Peter Dutton says he likely experienced post-traumatic stress disorder from policing career AUSTRALIA: Opposition leader Peter Dutton has conceded he likely experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of his time in the Queensland police force. ABC News (Australia) 22/8/2023 News «140814091410141114121413141414151416Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
