Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 96416 total results. Showing results 35381 to 35400 «176617671768176917701771177217731774Next ›Last » SNP urged to act after mental health absences costs Police Scotland £10m in 18 months The SNP has been urged to act to help support Police Scotland's over-stressed officers after it was revealed that mental health absences has cost the workforce more than £10m. New figures released by the Scottish Lib Dems revealed that between January 1 2021 and April 30 2022, 65,434 police officer working days were lost due to psychological disorders. Scottish Daily Express 6/9/2022 News Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney to leave policing in April 2023 Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney has today announced that she will leave Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Constabulary in April 2023, after 31 years of police service. She will not be taking up another role within policing. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary 6/9/2022 News Senior police officers sacked for gross misconduct but public and media excluded from hearing details One was found to have committed "inappropriate touching" Wales Online 6/9/2022 News Qld police trial scheme to reduce DV incidents, days after top cop’s damning evidence AUSTRALIA: Police officers will be stationed at domestic violence service centres as part of a trial launched within days of Commissioner Katarina Carroll giving damning evidence at an inquiry into Queensland police culture. The Age (Australia) 6/9/2022 News, Video Mental health absences cost Police Scotland £10m in 18 months. The figures have been revealed via Freedom of Information requests submitted by the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/9/2022 News High-profile WA police detective Cameron Blaine stood down AUSTRALIA: A senior detective has been stood down as WA Police and the Corruption and Crime Commission investigate alleged misconduct. ABC News (Australia) 6/9/2022 News Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney to leave policing in April 2023 Hampshire's chief to leave after completing secondment to Strategic Command Course. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/9/2022 News Walker inquest told of NT police deception AUSTRALIA: A terrified Indigenous community was tricked into believing one of their sons was still alive hours after he had been shot dead by Northern Territory police, an inquest has been told. Blue Mountains Gazette (Australia) 6/9/2022 News Wairoa’s gun crime plummets, Hastings’ on the rise NEW ZEALAND: Wairoa and central Hastings have both made the country's top 14 for recent recorded gun crime - despite Wairoa's gun-offence rate plummeting in the last three years. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 6/9/2022 News Three high ranking officers barred following inappropriate behaviour. Gwent Chief Superintendent Marc Budden and Chief Inspector Paul Staniforth have now been dismissed without notice, while along with retired Chief Superintendent Mark Warrender – all three will be placed on the barred list. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/9/2022 News PFEW writes to new Prime Minister to raise ‘concerns’ over pay and working conditions. The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has already written to new Prime Minister Liz Truss to raise the concerns of its 139,000 membership over pay and working conditions. Police Professional 6/9/2022 News Vehicles seized across Wellington following warrants NEW ZEALAND: Wellington Police and Ministry of Justice Bailiffs have seized nearly 20 vehicles across the Wellington district from gang members and associates. New Zealand Police 6/9/2022 News Police Minister on plan to curb engage youth away from crime NEW ZEALAND: The police minister says the aim of the government's plan to curb youth crime is to get young people engaged in something constructive. [AUDIO] RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 6/9/2022 News Force praises response of control room staff to one of the busiest summers on record for 999 calls. As Northumbria Police experienced one of the busiest summers on record for 999 calls, the head of the force’s control rooms has praised the “committed and determined” staff responding to the public. Police Professional 6/9/2022 News Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s death can’t be in vain, says father Family plead for action on gun crime and mourn the ‘light in their lives’ The Times - Subscription at source 6/9/2022 News Northamptonshire Police introduces innovative hybrid motorcycles into its operational fleet. Northamptonshire Police is driving forward sustainable transport for the emergency service with the delivery of new petrol-electric hybrid motorcycles. Police Professional 6/9/2022 News Custody immersive learning package launched Innovative new training will help to improve safety for people in custody College of Policing 6/9/2022 News PCCS warn of dangers of nitrous oxide APCC Joint Addictions and Substance Misuse Leads are warning the public of the dangers of nitrous oxide misuse. Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) 6/9/2022 News Hampshire and Isle of Wight’s first female chief constable to step down The first female chief constable of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Constabulary is to step down after 31 years in the service. BBC 6/9/2022 News FAST Policing by Telephone: a Randomised Controlled Trial Research Question: Can caller satisfaction and trust in police be improved (or equalled), after police agree to send a police car to meet with a caller face-to-face, by the alternative of immediate transfer of the call to a police officer who speaks to the caller at length by telephone? Data: A total of 1016 calls for police service to 999 or 101 assigned by call takers as falling into a “medium” priority category were checked for eligibility, including consent of the caller to speak immediately to a police officer by phone if possible. Eligible offence types excluded domestic abuse but included a variety of other matters. A majority (57.7%) of eligible cases were about threats made by neighbours, workplace colleagues or others known to the caller. A total of 450 cases were selected as eligible for the test sample out of a total of assessed as potentially eligible. Methods: Eligible cases were randomly assigned to either a control group (N = 225) of business as usual (BAU) attempts to provide a face-to-face meeting with a police officer, or the experimental group (N = 225) receiving immediate telephone transfer to a police officer who talked with the caller for over an hour as the initial police response. Analyses were done by intention-to-treat. While 99.75% (N = 249/250) of the experimental cases were treated as assigned, only about half of the 225 control cases actually received a face-to-face meeting with a police officer. All 450 assigned callers who gave consent to enter the experiment were contacted for a satisfaction survey at least 14 days following random assignment of the cases, from which the completion rate was 72.5% (almost identical in the two treatment groups). Findings: Eligible, consenting callers reported substantially higher levels of being “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the experimental police response by telephone (92.6%) than with the BAU efforts to arrange a face-to-face meeting between a police officer and the caller (68.9%). Trust and confidence in Kent police declined among 21% of callers receiving BAU service, but only 9% of callers given immediate telephone service. The median time from the initial call to a conversation between police and caller was under 1 min for the experimental treatment vs. 2721 min for the 80% of BAU control treatments in which any conversation between an officer and a caller occurred within 96 h after the call. Conclusion: This first experiment in a research collaboration on FAST (Finding Alternative and Speedier Tactics) policing has opened the door to further tests of immediate response by remote communications (Rothwell, et al. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing, 6, 1–24, 2022). For the kinds of cases included in this experiment, there is a clear preference by callers for the speedier service by a simple phone call over much slower attempts to provide a face-to-face meeting. If broadly adopted across many other high-volume, low-harm categories of requests for police service, fast policing by phone, video or silent live-chat online could improve public approval of policing while allowing more time for police to prevent more serious crimes. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 6/9/2022 Research article «176617671768176917701771177217731774Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
