Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 114960 total results. Showing results 3561 to 3580 «175176177178179180181182183Next ›Last » BAPCO Annual Event 25-26th March 2026! Get your tickets now As the flagship event of British APCO – the UK’s professional association for public safety communications, led by the emergency services – the BAPCO Annual Event is built by emergency services professionals, for emergency services professionals. PolicingTV 19/2/2026 Advertisement, Feature, Video Out of Court Resolutions: How to Combine Proportionality with Public Confidence Out of Court Resolutions (OOCRs) play an increasingly important role in modern policing. Conditional cautions and community resolutions offer a proportionate response to lower-level offending, reduce unnecessary court backlogs, and enable victims to receive timely outcomes. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 19/2/2026 Analysis, Feature ‘Beacon of resilience’ sergeant recognised for work ethic and welfare support She struggled with back pain throughout last year, and eventually needed surgery. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 19/2/2026 News Three PCs and a PCSO to face gross misconduct hearing over death after contact case Inquest jury says they did not believe man found intoxicated in a library had a realistic chance of survival, but there were 'missed opportunities in the level of care provided.' Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/2/2026 News More than sixty per cent of police capacity ‘being drained by mental health calls’ Speaking at Holyrood’s Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday, Scottish Police Federation (SPF) chairman David Threadgold said between 60% and 80% of Police Scotland’s operational capacity is being drained by dealing with mental health calls. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/2/2026 News Rapist attacked three women after police ignored officer’s warnings Hampshire Constabulary missed chances to stop Bruno Sala after he raped one of its officers, an investigation has found The Times - Subscription at source 18/2/2026 News Police failed to stop serial rapist, victim says A former police officer has said her own force failed to stop a man who raped her and was later jailed for attacking other women. BBC 18/2/2026 News Forensic science system ‘is in crisis’ A national scandal is in the making and miscarriages of justices could be inevitable, peers say in a scathing report The Times - Subscription at source 18/2/2026 News Child sexual abuse is increasing in severity, complexity and accessibility, say policing leads Child sexual abuse (CSA) leads across policing in Britain have today warned that advances in technology and a reliance on online platforms to communicate are significantly increasing the opportunities for offenders to engage with and sexually abuse children. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/2/2026 News Timmins police turn to virtual reality training for mental health crisis calls CANADA: Through a partnership with Northern College, Timmins police will get a chance to refine their skills with virtual training scenarios. Timmins Today (Canada) 18/2/2026 News Key Factors for Locating Missing Persons Living with Dementia: A Delphi Study Among Swedish Police Experts Background: Persons living with dementia (PLWD) are at an increased risk of going missing, with an elevated risk of harm. In Sweden, thousands of PLWD go missing annually, and the police are responsible for locating them. However, there is limited knowledge about the key factors that contribute to effective search efforts. Therefore, this study aimed to identify these key factors as expressed by police experts. Method: Using the Delphi technique, this exploratory study sought consensus among 43 Swedish police search experts over three rounds. The consensus was set at ≥70%. Results: Of the initial 73 items described by individual police experts, 53 reached consensus among the expert group. Five categories were identified: Information, Search Management, Search Tactics, Knowledge, and Collaboration. Discussion/conclusion: Limited situational awareness and lack of structure can hamper police search efforts when PLWD go missing. Knowing the person, critical partners, and the terrain all enhance search effectiveness. Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing 18/2/2026 Research article Teenage girls lured into forced sex by gangs in London, BBC finds Vulnerable women and girls as young as 14 are being lured into a world of forced sex by gangs in London, evidence uncovered by the BBC has found. Some told us they had been raped by several men as "payment" for unpaid drug debts run up by the gangs that controlled them, while others said they had been groomed just for sex. BBC 18/2/2026 News Forensic science in England and Wales is failing the public Lord Mair: Forensic science in England and Wales is not working. Not for the police, not for forensic scientists, or lawyers and ultimately, it is not working for the public and the criminal justice system. PoliticsHome 18/2/2026 Feature, Opinion Unintended Consequences of the Re-Professionalisation of Policing in the UK A centralised attempt to professionalise policing has been in operation for over a decade. The mechanism of change management to facilitate this, has, I argue, strained the relationship between strategic direction and working practice, with unintended consequence of poor service delivery for victims and the public. This blog is a personal opinion on its effectiveness and is based on ethnographic research articulated in a recently published paper (Bacon et al. 2025). BSC Policing Network 18/2/2026 Feature, Opinion Beyond the Transfer Gap: Ecological Dynamics and the Future of Police Training Police training produces a well-documented transfer gap: officers perform well in training environments but significantly worse under operational conditions. This paper argues that the gap is not adequately explained by insufficient resources or training hours alone. A major contributor is the set of assumptions about human learning embedded in training design itself: that skill is a stored program to be retrieved and executed, that complex skills are assembled from simple parts, and that perception and action are sequential processes. These assumptions, inherited from information-processing traditions, produce training environments systematically misaligned with the demands of the field. Ecological dynamics, grounded in Gibson’s ecological psychology and developed for skill acquisition by Davids and colleagues, offers a coherent alternative framework. It treats skill as the ability to establish functional relationships between performer and environment under varying conditions. The constraints-led approach translates this framework into training design through four principles: intention, constrain to afford, representative design, and repetition without repetition. The paper extends the framework beyond perceptual-motor skill using Vervaeke’s four kinds of knowing (propositional, procedural, perspectival, participatory) and proposes a research agenda for the criminal justice community. CRIMRXIV 18/2/2026 Research article Surrey police chief says province denied request to postpone RCMP transition CANADA: Public safety minister says she's confident government, police are ready for transition as planned CBC News (Canada) 18/2/2026 News Police failed to stop serial rapist, victim says A former police officer has said her own force failed to stop a man who raped her and was later jailed for attacking other women. Vicki Tomkins, a police officer of 16 years, told Channel 4 News, external she went to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary in January 2020 to report an attack that left her in hospital. BBC 18/2/2026 News Police academy tuition program yielding ‘exceptional’ officers, says Summerside chief CANADA: Now in its third year, a Summerside Police Services scholarship that offers to pay $10,000 of a cadet’s tuition is being hailed as a success by the police chief. Now in its third year, a Summerside Police Services scholarship that offers to pay $10,000 of a cadet’s tuition is being hailed as a success by the police chief. CBC News (Canada) 18/2/2026 News Give officers access to firearms in vehicles to combat sparsity of ARVs says Fed David Kennedy, the Scottish Police Federation (SPF)'s general secretary, told Police Oracle that it was vital to protect officers by allowing them to have access to firearms, which would be securely stored in their vehicles. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/2/2026 News Officer diagnosed with HIV awarded £40,000 due to discrimination by force Gwent Deputy Chief Constable Nicky Brain said the force recognised 'that we got this wrong and acknowledge the significant impact that this has had on the officer.' Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/2/2026 News «175176177178179180181182183Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
