Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104850 total results. Showing results 2921 to 2940 «143144145146147148149150151Next ›Last » Gauke review: targeted approaches to different groups of offenders Russell Webster looks in more detail at the Independent Sentencing Review’s conclusions about a wide range of different groups of offenders including prolific offenders, women, older offenders, foreign national offenders, sex offenders and drug and alcohol offenders. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/6/2025 Feature An ethnographic multi-order and notice analysis of the policing practices associated with civil preventive orders and notices Within England and Wales and internationally, there has been a growing reliance on two-step Civil Preventive Orders and Notices (CPONs) to regulate sub-criminal (Anti-Social Behaviour) and criminal behaviour (Violence Against Women and Girls). Often applied using the lower civil evidential standard at the first step of the process, these powers enable early intervention and victim protection via prohibitive (e.g. exclusion zone) and positive requirements (e.g. anger management course). However, when a recipient breaches the notice, order or any of the requirements imposed, they commit a criminal offence, often punishable by imprisonment. There is presently limited understanding of how these powers are used within policing, their effectiveness, and legal and moral limits. As a result, this mixed methods ethnographic study of a single case study police force in England and Wales provides the first in-depth multi-order and notice analysis of the powers from initial introduction to implementation. The research draws on over 100 hours of ride-along ethnographic observations, sixteen semi-structured interviews, and secondary data from police statistics and policies. Utilising the combined theories of Preventive Justice, Street-Level Bureaucracy, and Risk Society to create the Proportionality, Appropriateness and Effectiveness (PAE) Appraisal Model for Preventative Powers. The findings reveal that due to policy weaknesses and the all-encompassing nature of risk, officers must act as policy entrepreneurs, creating informal processes to work through the CPON process haphazardly, challenging their most proportionate, appropriate, and effective use. Consequently, this study provides seventeen policy, practice, and research recommendations, offering practical insights for policymakers, practitioners and academics. Policing and Society 2/6/2025 Research article Brantford Police Officers soon to be equipped with body-worn cameras CANADA: The Brantford Police Service has announced the roll-out of body-worn cameras for front-line officers. Blue Line (Canada) 2/6/2025 News Vehicle-moose collision interrupts trafficking of drugs from GTA to northern communities CANADA: When Anishinabek Police Service officers recently responded to a vehicle-moose collision in the Township of Wallbridge (Parry Sound), the collision was the least remarkable aspect of the scene. Blue Line (Canada) 2/6/2025 News Advancing law enforcement: The Lethbridge Police Service’s data-driven approach to crime reduction CANADA: For three consecutive years – 2019, 2020 and 2021 – Lethbridge held the highest Crime Severity Index (CSI) ranking in Canada, a dire distinction that prompted a shift from reactive policing to a proactive, data-driven strategy. Blue Line (Canada) 2/6/2025 Feature Dundalk Gardai and Women’s Aid mark Go Purple Day REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Last Friday An Garda SÃochána in Dundalk marked ’Go Purple Day’ with members from Dundalk Women’s Aid to help raise awareness about domestic abuse and the domestic abuse support services available to those affected in Ireland. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 2/6/2025 News Lone man fired shots into air in ‘terrifying’ incident at Carlow shopping centre, says Garda REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Assistant commissioner praises ‘courage’ of responding gardaÃ. The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 2/6/2025 News Prioritising suspects using their activity locations Geographical offender profiling involves interpreting a range of geographic clues in support of identifying offenders in criminal investigations. This chapter describes a new geographical offender profiling approach that focuses on the clues revealed by known suspects’ previously recorded activity locations—such as their home addresses, workplaces or past crime locations—and how these clues can be used to prioritise suspects for further investigation. Our aim is to highlight the potential of this approach—as evident from its accuracy when implemented algorithmically and tested on solved cases—and provide some pointers for its application in practice. First, we summarise the theoretical foundations of the approach and describe a recently proposed theoretical model that explains near which activity locations people are likely to commit crime. Second, we detail how this model can be used in a structured way to inform inferences about which suspects are most likely to have committed a single crime or a series of crimes, given what the police know about their activity locations. We provide both quantitative (statistical or algorithmic) and qualitative methods for prioritising suspects, depending on the tools available and the size of the suspect list. CRIMRXIV 2/6/2025 Research article Shorter opening hours for Limerick Garda station REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Mayorstone Garda Station will have shorter opening hours from June 9, to allow for more Gardaà on the beat and on patrol in communities. Limerick Post (Republic of Ireland) 2/6/2025 News Correlates of Personnel Police Officers’ Commitment in Taiwan: A Comparison of Job Commitment and Organizational Commitment Meta-analyses conducted over time have consistently revealed that high levels of commitment are significantly related to work productivity, innovation, employee retention, and the recruitment of high-quality employees. However, commitment research on policing is understudied. Thus, the current study aims to analyze the correlates of job and organizational commitments among personnel police officers in Taiwan, along with the difference in the antecedents between the two types of commitment. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses of a sample of 480 Taiwan personnel police officers indicated that job commitment and organizational commitment have similar predictors. More specifically, both workplace fairness and the nature of the personnel police job are positively related to commitments. Implications for future research are discussed in the end. Asian Journal of Criminology - Subscription at source 2/6/2025 Research article Leading cultural reform in the UK’s premier police service: Lessons from the front line Having played a key role in delivering the New Met for London cultural reform programme for the UK’s largest police force, Public Safety Tech Consultant Michael Calderaro-Tracey shares some insights into the importance of psychological safety, the dangers of trying to make a broken system work, and the need for continuous commitment to transformation in an environment where change is essential rather than optional. Policing Insight - Registration at source 2/6/2025 Feature, Opinion Service on track to lose 10,000 officers this year says Federation in response to reform calls Officer exodus due to low pay is 'elephant in the room' in debate about police reform says Fed. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/6/2025 News How Warwickshire Police plans to use AI to fight crime Chief Superintendent Mike Smith said policing was "quite rapidly" moving towards AI solutions but also acknowledged the "ethical questions" involved in an address to councillors Coventry Live 2/6/2025 News Data watchdog scolds Manchester Police over ‘serious shortcomings’ in CCTV storage Regulator completes investigation into incident in which an individual requested a copy of footage of 48 hours spent in custody, only for the force to discover two hours were missing Public Technology 2/6/2025 News Nabbed in 60 seconds: Met Police’s new super-fast e-bikes put to the test in war on phone snatchers Lightweight Sur-ron cycles used in crackdown after 70,137 devices stolen in London last year - one every seven minutes The Standard 2/6/2025 News Cops’ big call on phone data cost after mushroom cook evidence AUSTRALIA: Victoria Police has vowed cost will not trump solving crime when it comes to paying for metadata records. Herald Sun (Australia) - Subscription at source 2/6/2025 News Commissioner congratulates Honours recipient NEW ZEALAND: A police officer who has dedicated her career to supporting her community has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours. Senior Constable Terri Middleton, a School Community Officer based in Greymouth on the West Coast, has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for Services to New Zealand Police and the community. New Zealand Police 2/6/2025 News Productivity on Patrol: Measuring Efficiency Gains from AI-Assisted Police Reports with a Global Malmquist Index Report writing constitutes an important yet time-intensive task within law enforcement, prompting the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve productivity. While such technologies are often promoted as solutions to administrative inefficiencies, their real-world impact in policing remains underexplored. This study investigates the effect of AI-assisted report writing on officer productivity and efficiency using data from a randomized experiment in the Manchester Police Department (NH). The results show substantial improvements in efficiency and productivity for both the treatment and control groups after the intervention; however, only the treatment group demonstrated statistically significant productivity gains attributable to AI adoption. These findings suggest that the anticipated benefits of AI in police report writing may be overstated, underscoring the importance of rigorous empirical scrutiny when integrating technology into public sector operations. CRIMRXIV 2/6/2025 Research article Developing Useful Evidence in Community Violence Intervention (CVI) Research: A Modest Case for Case Studies This paper identifies elements of a useful evidence base for Community Violence Interventions (CVI). It pays attention to their key objectives, including reducing violence; building community support and engagement; attaining political backing; and obtaining funding resources to ensure sustainability. I review methodological and analytic challenges inherent in evaluating CVI processes and impacts within a community-focused structure. Using existing research on community and organizational-level case studies, assessments of the current state of CVI evidence and practice, and an ongoing project in St. Louis (MO) as an example, I review possible advantages of case-based reasoning and analysis in compiling useful evidence about CVIs. Those advantageous characteristics include an intentional focus on understanding initiatives from a variety of community-centered stakeholder perspectives (both individuals and groups); an ability to incorporate multiple data sources for both breadth and depth; opportunities to identify the inner and outer implementation context; the potential to leverage unavoidable CVI actions and processes in data gathering and analysis; and applying contemporary quantitative analysis tools that can facilitate credible causal inferences in complementary fashion.  CRIMRXIV 2/6/2025 Research article Elevate your policing career: LJMU’s advanced security courses await! Leadership, knowledge and application are the fundamentals to continuous education and training across all policing fields, essential to keep updated on best practices, legal changes and evolving community needs. The Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies (LCAPS) offers a comprehensive learning portfolio featuring academic policing programs designed to equip police professionals with the essential skills needed to apply to the everchanging complex challenges of modern policing. Policing Insight 2/6/2025 Advertisement, Feature «143144145146147148149150151Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
