Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 102619 total results. Showing results 3141 to 3160 «154155156157158159160161162Next ›Last » Assessing Customs Officers’ Use of the Cognitive Interview for Suspects The Cognitive Interview for Suspects (CIS) is a science-based technique that helps suspects provide detailed, accurate information without coercion. In this study, customs officers employing the CIS gathered 29% more details than those using Standard Interviewing (SI) techniques. The CIS is time-efficient. Relative to SIs, interviews conducted using the CIS were shorter and contained fewer questions, yet yielded more information overall. The CIS, therefore, may be particularly useful in contexts in which time and resource constraints are frequently experienced. The source article found that officers trained in the CIS were more accurate in identifying deceptive statements than untrained officers, indicating that CIS training may enhance investigators’ ability to detect deception. However, further research is necessary to validate these findings; investigators should remain cautious when making determinations regarding suspect statement veracity. Applied Police Briefings (Canada) 31/3/2025 Feature London police admin assistant earned more than chief in 2024 An administrative assistant who earned nearly $329,000 and a constable were among the five highest paid London police employees in 2024. Last year, 636 London police staffers were paid more than $100,000, up from 604 the previous year, according to a list of public sector workers in Ontario paid six figures or more in 2024. The list was released March 28. The London Free Press (Canada) 31/3/2025 News Information-Gathering Approaches Produce More Reliable Confessions Compared with Accusatorial Approaches The source article found differences in rates of true and false confessions when comparing information-gathering interrogation approaches with accusatorial approaches. Information‐gathering approaches can be more effective in eliciting true confessions from guilty suspects and decreasing false confessions from innocent suspects. Accusatorial interrogation techniques such as lying, bluffing about evidence, and minimization increased the number of false confessions and decreased the number of true confessions compared to information-gathering approaches. Applied Police Briefings (Canada) 31/3/2025 Feature Strength in Numbers: Collaborative Interviewing of Eyewitnesses The Collaborative Eyewitness Interview is a technique that involves interviewing two witnesses who observed the same crime first individually, and then collaboratively. During the Collaborative Eyewitness Interview, witnesses remember many new details that are highly relevant to the police investigation. Investigators could use the Collaborative Eyewitness Interview when individual interviews have not provided sufficient investigative leads. Applied Police Briefings (Canada) 31/3/2025 Feature Assessing Professional Rapport: A Review of Current Measures and Best Practices Building rapport in professional settings, such as police interviews, fosters a non-coercive environment that encourages information disclosure. There is significant inconsistency in defining and measuring rapport, impacting the effectiveness of training and guidelines. A reliable and practical measure of professional rapport is crucial for assessing and improving interview practices. Applied Police Briefings (Canada) 31/3/2025 Feature ‘Politics of policing’: Victoria Police lashed for doing ‘flat nothing’ to address protests AUSTRALIA: Sky News host Andrew Bolt discusses the “politics of policing” as police in Victoria do “flat nothing” against threats levied against pro-Israel protesters. “To the politics of policing in Victoria … police did flat nothing when pro-Israel supporters at a rally in Melbourne last week were threatened by pro-Palestinian supporters,” Mr Bolt said. Sky News 31/3/2025 Feature, Opinion What it costs for police to ‘babysit’ bikie gangs in the ACT every year AUSTRALIA: Canberrans have paid more than $400,000 for police to keep an eye on three outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs) who held their annual meetings in Canberra in 2024 and 2025. The Canberra Times (Australia) - Subscription at source 31/3/2025 News Police chair’s comments breached standards – panel The chairman of West Midlands Police Federation has been found in breach of professional standards following complaints over his actions - including his suggestion that claims of racism in the force were "nonsense". BBC 31/3/2025 News Priorities ‘all wrong’ as police numbers slump by six percent in Scotland The Scottish Government's priorities are "all wrong" after new figures showed police officer and fire service numbers had slumped by six percent since 2013 - while employment in the civil service had seen a 71 percent increase. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/3/2025 News Countries with highest and lowest police salaries in EU – and how it compares to UK New data has shown which countries on average pay police officers the highest - and lowest - salaries across the European Union, and how this compares to police pay in the UK. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/3/2025 News Essential Service: The hidden cost of underfunding Indigenous police services CANADA: The headlights from the truck that Anishinabek Police Services [APS] Constable Chris Palmer is driving cut through the shadows in the tree-lined country road ahead. APTN News (Canada) 31/3/2025 News ‘It’s the Wild West’: How AI is creating new frontiers for crime in Canada CANADA: There’s deepfake pornography. Voice impersonation. Romance scams that turn into financial fraud. Blue Line (Canada) 31/3/2025 News Celebrating innovation and visibility: Longueuil Agglomeration Police Service wins Best Dressed Police Vehicle Award CANADA: Congratulations to all the winners of Blue Line’s 2025 Best Dressed Vehicle Awards. Blue Line (Canada) 31/3/2025 Feature Underfunding of Kildare garda station putting residents ‘at risk’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Aontú local area representative calls for funding for Derrinturn Garda Station Kildare Now (Republic of Ireland) 31/3/2025 News TD Alan Kelly expressing concerns that some Garda training will move from Templemore Garda College REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Tipperary North TD Alan Kelly is expressing concerns that the Government will move some Garda Training away from the Garda College in Templemore. Tipp Mid West Radio (Ireland) 31/3/2025 News A Qualitative Exploration of the Implications of a Differential Multi–Agency Understanding and Interpretation of Domestic Abuse To examine the perspectives and experiences of multi–agency practitioners involved in supporting families affected by domestic abuse (DA) to inform changes that are required to better meet the needs of affected families. This article focuses on (a) how DA is differentially understood and interpreted, (b) the possible reasons identified for differential understanding and interpretation and (c) its perceived impact on risk assessment and service delivery. A case study approach within a North East Local authority located in the United Kingdom (UK), was adopted. Thirty-one 1:1 online qualitative interviews were conducted with multidisciplinary professionals between June – December 2022. The findings are based upon a combination of deductive-inductive thematic analysis. There was an absence of a shared understanding of DA among practitioners involved in multi-agency working despite a national-level definition available in the UK. This was identified as one of the key barriers to multiagency working subsequently affecting consistent response to families affected by DA. Data from this case study emphasizes the importance of developing a uniform understanding of DA among practitioners to adequately respond to the distinctive needs of families who are affected by it. The findings from the article can also inform broader debates in the DA literature related to complexities surrounding definitions and associated interpretations. Practice and policy implications are also discussed. Journal of Family Violence 31/3/2025 Research article Policing Tech Forum: ‘Nearly limitless’ opportunities for AI – but it’s not about replacing the human The continuing development of multi-channel public contact is a key issue for policing across England and Wales; in the last in the recent series of Policing Tech Forum webinars produced by PolicingTV, Content Guru Business Development Director Shub Naha, Humberside Police Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Scot Dunn, and David Jackson from the NPCC’s Digital Public Contact Programme, explored the opportunities for AI to improve service delivery as well as staff and officer wellbeing, but not to replace humans in the process. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 31/3/2025 Feature, Innovation Criminal governance in a large European city: The case of gangs in London This study explores criminal governance among urban gangs operating in a large European city. It does so by introducing the Crim-Gov questionnaire, a novel survey tool purposely designed to systematically capture key governance-related dimensions of criminal groups’ activities, and applying it to the case of London. It identifies instances of criminal governance among gangs operating in the city and shows that governance activities are only carried out by a subset of groups, thus suggesting that a more complex set of skills is required to provide criminal governance, particularly beyond illegal markets. Governance-type gangs are spatially clustered and impact 4.7% of all London communities. Next, the paper explores the neighbourhood structural conditions associated with governance and non-governance gang presence. It shows that, while socioeconomic disadvantage increases all types of gang presence, barriers to local services, including affordable housing, only increase the probability of governance-type gangs. Criminal governance is more likely to emerge when services provided by local and central authorities are of lesser quality. Results also indicate a negative association between residential mobility and criminal governance, suggesting that a certain degree of residential stability is needed for criminal governance to emerge. These findings point to the importance of separating different types of gang activities, lending support for a broader theory that situates (some) urban gangs within the spectrum of organised crime governance. It is also crucial for law enforcement and local stakeholders to identify governance-type gangs and treat them separately from non-governance ones. When developing interventions to tackle the emergence and persistence of governance-type gangs, particular emphasis should be placed on improving access to and quality of public services. European Journal of Criminology 31/3/2025 Research article AI and Serious Online Crime AI proliferation is reshaping serious online criminality. While the use of AI by criminals remains at an early stage, there is widespread evidence emerging of a substantial acceleration in AI-enabled crime, particularly evident in areas such as financial crime, child sexual abuse material, phishing and romance scams. Criminal groups benefit from AI’s ability to automate and rapidly scale the volume of their activities, augment existing online crime types and exploit people’s psychological vulnerabilities. This report aims to equip the UK national security and law enforcement communities with the tools to plan and better position themselves to respond to novel threats over the next five years. That process will require more effective coordination and targeting of resources, and more rapid adoption of AI itself. It should start with the creation of a new AI Crime Taskforce within the National Crime Agency – which would collate data across UK law enforcement to monitor and log criminal groups’ use of AI, working with national security and industry partners on strategies to raise barriers to criminal adoption. Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) 31/3/2025 Report UK law enforcement inadequately equipped to tackle AI-enabled crime UK law enforcement lacks the tools to effectively tackle AI-enabled crime and must adopt a more proactive, AI-driven approach. This is according to a new report by Lancaster University and the Alan Turing Institute’s Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS), which calls for the creation of a dedicated AI Crime Taskforce within the National Crime Agency. Lancaster University 31/3/2025 News «154155156157158159160161162Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
