Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 114960 total results. Showing results 3141 to 3160 «154155156157158159160161162Next ›Last » Police racism targeting First Nations communities still deeply embedded, new reports show AUSTRALIA: The scale of police force used against protesters in Sydney last month has sparked national outrage and renewed scrutiny of police conduct. But the latest Call It Out Racism Register report confirms that racism within the criminal legal system is still deeply embedded, reinforcing previous reporting. National Justice Project (Australia) 3/3/2026 News Officer ‘didn’t have time’ to turn on body-worn camera before shooting Sydney man having psychotic episode, inquest hears AUSTRALIA: A police officer has told a coronial inquest he didn’t have enough time to turn on his body-worn camera before he fatally shot a Sydney man who ran at him with two kitchen knives, amid conflicting statements on what unfolded in the critical moments before the man was killed. The Guardian 3/3/2026 News Moving towards a professional police workforce: a scoping review of reflective, experiential and authentic learning in initial education The professionalization of policing in England and Wales has been a longstanding ambition, most recently advanced through the Police Education Qualifications Framework. This article undertakes a structured scoping review of literature from higher education, professional learning, and policing studies to examine how reflective practice, simulation-based learning, work-integrated learning, and authentic assessment collectively support this agenda. Drawing on the systematic identification, screening, and synthesis of scholarship across policing, nursing, paramedicine, and social work, this paper demonstrates how these pedagogies underpin the development of reflective, knowledgeable, and ethically grounded recruits. The discussion interprets them as interconnected mechanisms of professionalization: reflection as the foundation of professional identity, simulation as professional rehearsal, work-integrated learning as the bridge between theory and practice, and authentic assessment as the test of competence and judgement. The discussion highlights the synergies and tensions, the implications for professionalization and the opportunities for innovation. The paper concludes that embedding these interconnected pedagogies represents a necessary condition for policing to be recognized and sustained as a modern knowledge-based profession. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 3/3/2026 Research article Argentine Federal Police Rapidly Solve High-Profile Homicide Investigation Using SS8’s Discovery MILPITAS, Calif. and BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — March 3, 2026 — SS8 Networks (“SS8”), a global leader in the extraction, fusion, and analytics of investigative data and monitoring center platforms, explains today how a national intelligence agency in South America used SS8’s Discovery – Criminal Analytics to accelerate a critical and immediate complex, high-profile homicide investigation linked to organized crime and online exploitation in Argentina. SS8 Networks 3/3/2026 Press release Automated risk assessments in the UK: What they are really for, and why that matters As UK policing starts to embrace machine-learning solutions and interest in algorithmic risk assessments grows, Tamara Polajnar, CEO of herEthical AI, explores the existing domestic abuse assessment tools, the importance of understanding how automated risk assessment is used and should be applied, and what steps need to be taken to ensure automation and algorithms can extract vital domestic abuse details and context lost in traditional tick-box methodologies. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 3/3/2026 Analysis, Feature, Opinion Digital Survey provides ‘full, unfiltered picture’ on police technology – and a cutting-edge prize for VCO Aimee Results from the UK Police Digital Experience Survey 2025, carried out by Policing Insight and backed by the Home Office, National Police Chiefs’ Council, Police Federation of England & Wales, and the Police Digital Service, will shortly be published, providing a full picture of the digital technology experiences of officers and staff; and for Victim Care Officer Aimee Edwards, the prize draw winner picked from more than 6,600 survey respondents, it also led to a new hi-tech fitness watch. Policing Insight 3/3/2026 News Chief Constable Jon Boutcher acknowledges and welcomes Police Ombudsman’s report Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Jon Boutcher acknowledges and very much welcomes the publication of the Police Ombudsman’s report examining allegations of abuse of position for sexual purposes. Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said: “Any abuse of position for sexual purposes is wholly unacceptable. It represents a serious breach of trust and a violation of the standards rightly expected of police officers." Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 3/3/2026 News Abuse of Position for Sexual Purposes by PSNI Officers: Analysis and emerging findings This report sets out the emerging findings from a review of 42 cases of alleged abuse of position for sexual purposes (APSP) by PSNI officers that we investigated between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2024. Since 1 January 2025, we have received more than 20 further cases where this sort of abuse is part of (or all of) the complaint. Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland 3/3/2026 Report Police Ombudsman: Police Predatory Behaviour Now Accounts for 30% of Most Serious Cases Police predatory behaviour now makes up 30% of the most serious cases being investigated by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, a figure which continues to rise, according to a new report published today (3 March 2026). Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland 3/3/2026 News Police’s ‘primary responsibility’ is justice, not mental health, Jo Farrell says Jo Farrell said the force has 'to do something different in this space' because its 'primary responsibility' is the prevent and detect crime. STV News 3/3/2026 News Statement from Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner, on the five‑year anniversary of Sarah Everard’s murder Sarah Everard should still be here. Five years have passed since her senseless and devastating murder. What happened to her was a profound betrayal: of her, of her family and loved ones, and of every person who places their trust in policing. Sarah was murdered by a serving Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens. That fact is as devastating today as it was in 2021. It was an unthinkable abuse of power and a total violation of the values that the Met, and policing stands for. Metropolitan Police Service 3/3/2026 News ‘The awful truth’: The police problem with rape and sexual offences Sky News investigation finds that police are still regularly being accused of sexual crimes - with a senior officer warning the issue is preventing women and girls reporting crime Sky News 3/3/2026 Feature Gardaí have yet to discharge tasers three months into pilot project, justice minister confirms REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: New taser guns provided to gardaí have yet to be discharged nearly three months into a new pilot project. While tasers have been drawn as a de-escalation tool four times since mid-December, gardaí and justice minister Jim O’Callaghan confirmed they have yet to be used. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 3/3/2026 News Controlling control: toward a reflexive concept of officer safety Police responses to psychosocial crises frequently unfold in ambiguous, emotionally charged situations. While many encounters are handled professionally, others escalate, sometimes fatally. This paper observes such outcomes through a systemic lens rather than isolated individual decisions. Drawing on systems theory, we argue that the dominant model of officer safety, what we term Officer Safety 1.0, relies on three core assumptions: that safety is a producible condition, that violence is an external threat, and that thinking is guided by a linear, input–output logic concerning police-citizen interaction. These assumptions shape how officers perceive and act in complex situations, often reinforcing rigid and reactive forms of engagement that may inadvertently escalate risk. Officer Safety 1.0, in this sense, is grounded in a logic of linear control. We introduce an alternative model—Officer Safety 2.0—which retains the functional goal of control but reconfigures its foundation through reflexivity. In this model, safety is understood as a socially constructed fiction, violence as an interactive risk, and thinking is guided by a nonlinear understanding of social interactions. Within this model, control emerges from insight: the reflexive capacity to observe one’s own assumptions and their effects on the unfolding situation. Officers are encouraged not only to observe events, but also to reflect on the interpretive frameworks guiding their perceptions and actions. This reflexive approach aims to expand the behavioral repertoire available to officers, enabling more adaptive and situationally attuned responses that reduce the likelihood of escalation. Officer Safety 2.0 is not a replacement for existing tactics, but an educational framework that reframes them within a broader understanding of system logic and human interaction. It shifts the foundation of safety thinking from the pursuit of linear control to the cultivation of insight as a form of reflexive control. Frontiers in Sociology 3/3/2026 Research article 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 3/3/2026 News Garda chief: We are working to stop young men joining domestic terror cells targeting Muslims REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly says the force is in the process of trying to ‘deradicalise’ young men from joining domestic terror cells targeting Ireland’s Muslim population. Mr Kelly said young men were being indoctrinated online and gardaí have intervened in the past two years. He said the ten or so domestic terror cells known to them are ‘small in number’. Extra.ie (Republic of Ireland) 3/3/2026 News Met Police chief hails ‘extraordinary dignity’ of Sarah Everard’s family five years after her death Britain’s most senior police officer has hailed the “extraordinary dignity in the face of unbearable grief” shown by the family of Sarah Everard on the fifth anniversary of her murder. LBC 3/3/2026 News Citing witnesses in the sheriff court The aim of this inspection was to assess how effectively and efficiently prosecution witnesses are cited to give evidence in the sheriff court. This includes members of the public who have been the victim of a crime or who have witnessed a crime, as well as police and professional witnesses. The inspection has been carried out jointly by HM Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland (IPS) and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS), which has allowed us to consider the citation process from both a prosecution and policing perspective. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) 3/3/2026 Report Joint review calls for modernisation of the citation process A new report has called on the Scottish justice system to modernise the ‘antiquated’ way it cites witnesses to attend court. Inspectors from HM Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland (IPS) and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) carried out a joint review into how effectively and efficiently prosecution witnesses are cited to give evidence in the sheriff court. They found while witnesses in other parts of the UK are commonly notified of trial dates by email, in Scotland most civilian witnesses still receive citations by second class post. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) 3/3/2026 News Police’s ‘primary responsibility’ is justice, not mental health, Jo Farrell says Scotland’s Chief Constable has made clear police officers “cannot continue” to spend more time helping people in mental health crisis than dealing with crime. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 3/3/2026 News «154155156157158159160161162Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
