Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 96999 total results. Showing results 30181 to 30200 «150615071508150915101511151215131514Next ›Last » New fleet of garda vehicles cost Irish taxpayers €16.8million last year REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The €16.8million total beat the 2020 figure of €16million when the force is believed to have invested in new vehicles for during the pandemic Dublin Live (Republic of Ireland) 5/2/2023 News Just Stop Oil protests cost the Metropolitan Police £7.5m Policing Just Stop Oil protests cost taxpayers £7.5 million in just nine weeks, new figures show. Belfast Telegraph 5/2/2023 News ‘Influence the future’, says retired black PC The first black police officer in Bedfordshire hopes that he has "paved the way for others" as his memoirs have been made into a book. BBC 4/2/2023 News Car registration plates cloned with 3D printers and used to commit crimes AUSTRALIA: A crime targeting unsuspecting motorists is on the rise and there is little they can do to prevent it, authorities say. Police said criminals are increasingly using hi-tech 3D printers to make false numberplates, using them to commit crimes ranging from robbery to petrol drive-offs. ABC News (Australia) 4/2/2023 News Commonly used police diversity training unlikely to change officers’ behavior, study finds USA: Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died after a confrontation with police during a traffic stop earlier this month in Memphis, has become the latest face in a racial justice and police reform movement fueled by a string of similar cases in which Black men have died from injuries sustained while being taken into custody. While these cases have spurred calls for greater law enforcement investment in diversity training, new research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that the day-long implicit bias-oriented training programs now common in most U.S. police departments are unlikely to reduce racial inequity in policing. Phys Org 4/2/2023 News DOJ to conduct review of Memphis Police Department after Tyre Nichols’ death USA: The Department of Justice will help conduct a review of the Memphis Police Department following the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, city officials said. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced Friday that the DOJ's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, along with the International Association of Police Chiefs, will conduct an "independent, external review" that will include assessing the department's special units and use-of-force policies "to honor Tyre and help make sure this type of tragedy does not happen again." abc news (USA) 4/2/2023 News Deriving Expert Knowledge of Situational Awareness in Policing: a Mixed-Methods Study Situational awareness (SA) is the most important skill required by police to effectively assess and respond to encounters, including critical incidents. Incomplete or sub-optimal SA strategies can lead to errors in subsequent judgement, decision-making, and action, including tactics and use of force (UOF). Errors in UOF, especially lethal force, in training or operational field settings, have severe consequences for learning, occupational health, and public safety. Therefore, adequately defining and instructing SA is an important gap to fill in existing applied police literature and practice. Using a mixed-methods approach, the current study aimed to define and conceptualize SA in police-specific contexts. Participants included 23 novice trainees and 11 experienced officers and instructors in tactics and UOF. Participants were shown 13 static images of various staged encounters, ranging from non-threatening to high-threat. Following each image, participants were interviewed and asked to describe what they saw and how they would respond. Thematic analyses of the interview data revealed the following seven themes that are highly interrelated and more completely define police-specific SA: distance/time laws; partner/roles; profiling the suspect; tactical options and opportunities; ongoing assessment of own tactical activities and outcomes; surrounding environment and conditions; and dangerous objects. Expert officers provided more detailed and multidimensional descriptions of the themes and statistical analyses confirmed that experts identified more themes compared to novices. By making tacit knowledge visible, the current findings establish a professional standard for SA formation, which can inform evidence-based police training in SA, tactical decision-making, and UOF while improving operational safety. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 4/2/2023 Research article If the face fits: predicting future promotions from police cadets’ facial traits Objective: To evaluate the relationship between police cadets’ facial traits and their subsequent promotional success. Methods: Using archival police academy photographs, we use a two-phase experiment to evaluate the impact of facial traits on future promotional success. First, respondents (n = 507) view randomly selected photographs of cadets (observations = 15,669) and evaluate them for facial traits and perceived leadership ability. Second, respondents are presented with random dyads of differentially promoted recruits, and choose one based on the highest perceived leadership ability. We compare those leadership evaluations to the subsequent promotional success of the cadets featured in the photographs (observations = 5739). We employ Bayesian multilevel modeling throughout both phases. Results: Facial traits are the primary driver of subject perceptions of leadership ability, and those perceptions successfully predict promotional success later in the cadets’ careers. When selecting for leadership potential based on police cadet photographs, respondents predict correct promotional choices at levels well above chance as measured by an AUC score of .70. Further, respondents’ evaluations successfully discriminate both between no promotion and lieutenant promotion, and sergeant versus lieutenant promotions. Conclusions: Promoting the most capable police officers is a critical feature of public service. Our findings cast a degree of doubt on the purportedly meritocratic foundations of police promotion and selection. Extra-legal information, such as facial features, predicts later promotional success. Journal of Experimental Criminology - Subscription at source 4/2/2023 Research article International drug gangs ‘will exploit cuts to naval service’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Cuts to the Irish navy will allow South American cartels to accelerate cocaine trafficking across the North Atlantic into Europe, a top expert has warned. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 4/2/2023 News Dorset’s new Chief Constable Amanda Pearson on police plan Dorset's new Chief Constable has promised that she will not be ripping up existing policing plans and starting again. Dorset Echo 4/2/2023 News Interpol working out how to police the metaverse Interpol secretary general Jurgen Stock says the global police agency is investigating how the organisation could police crime in the metaverse. BBC 4/2/2023 News ‘Gets police out of the lives of drug users’: decriminalization move takes effect in Canadian province CANADA: British Columbia now allows possession of 2.5g of illegal drugs in measure to mitigate opioid crisis The Guardian 3/2/2023 Feature Stalker jailed after detectives use analytical software to map his ‘predatory behaviour’ A stalker has been jailed after detectives used analytical software to map his every move. Police Professional 3/2/2023 News Met Police ask 250 officers with misconduct records to return The Met has admitted it wrote to more than 250 retired police officers with misconduct records inviting them to re-apply for their former jobs. BBC 3/2/2023 News Nicola Bulley: police think missing dog walker fell into river Officers say they are working on assumption that 45-year-old’s disappearance is not suspicious, but tragic The Guardian 3/2/2023 News GMP’s Operation Ambition aims at developing processes for reporting someone missing – by reducing demand and focusing resources on locating Missing People National Missing Persons Day is on February 3 each year and shines a light on the thousands of people who go missing on an annual basis. It brings awareness to members of the public about people who are missing – and increases the chances of them being found. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) 3/2/2023 News Facial recognition technology: Government split over introduction of ID software for An Garda Siochana REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The minister for justice indicated his intention to introduce facial recognition technology via an amendment in spite of the fact that there wouldn't be room for pre-legislative scrutiny Buzz (Republic of Ireland) 3/2/2023 News Dutch police take down Exclu encrypted chat service with 42 arrests, €4 million seized NETHERLANDS: For five months, police in the Netherlands have been able to read the encrypted communications criminals shared with each other using the Exclu Messenger app. Authorities in the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium cooperated in carrying out 79 searches, leading to the arrests of 42 people including Exclu users, administrators, and the chat service's owners, police said. The arrests almost certainly prevented assassinations from being carried out abroad, Dutch police stated. Eurojust and Europol were also involved in the operation, along with agencies in Italy, Sweden and France. One primary website for the service was offline on Friday afternoon, and users were no longer able to send or receive chat messages, photos, voice memos, and videos. The messenger service boasted over 10,000 clients, though Dutch authorities said this was closer to 3,000, including 750 who wrote messages in the Dutch language. NL Times (Netherlands) 3/2/2023 News After Tyre Nichols’ death, can this bodycam AI make police more accountable? USA: After disturbing footage was released of Nichols’ death, one company has promised to change policing in America through the implementation of tech that analyzes police bodycams. Is it everything it seems? The Independent 3/2/2023 News Can we train American police to turn away from violence? USA: American police are not well trained compared to those in other countries. That needs to change if we want to prevent incidents like the one that killed Tyre Nichols. Greater Good Magazine - UC Berkley (USA) 3/2/2023 Feature «150615071508150915101511151215131514Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
