Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 96343 total results. Showing results 36541 to 36560 «182418251826182718281829183018311832Next ›Last » ‘Auckland at tipping point on crime and safety’: Mayoral candidates’ plans on law and order NEW ZEALAND: Mayoral candidate Viv Beck is vowing action on crime, announcing a four-step action plan that includes the establishment of a mayoral safety task force and using digital and sensing technology to fight it. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 7/8/2022 News Party drug capital: Top city for MDMA use identified as Dunedin NEW ZEALAND: Dunedin is New Zealand's hottest spot for party drug MDMA use, wastewater testing shows. A University of Otago researcher says students played a role in the city's ranking. Figures for the first three months of the year, released by New Zealand Police, indicate that people in the South consume MDMA (also referred to as molly or ecstasy) at a rate significantly higher than the national average. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 7/8/2022 News Cops behaving badly: DV order broken in minutes, database used to stalk ex AUSTRALIA: Thirty-eight Queensland police officers were hit with domestic violence orders in the first six months of this year… and the revelations to an inquiry only get worse. The Courier Mail (Australia) - Subscription at source 7/8/2022 News VicPol investigating death in custody of ‘agitated man’ AUSTRALIA: A man has died after being detained by police after crashing his car into the front yard of a house in Melbourne’s north. Officers went to the home in Preston after being told a car had gone through a fence and into the yard at about 4am on Sunday. The man appeared to be behaving erratically before he got out of the car and confronted police. “Officers attempted to restrain the agitated man before he appeared to become unresponsive,” Victoria Police said in a statement. The New Daily (Australia) 7/8/2022 News Tipperary gardaí adopt “zero tolerance” approach to domestic abuse and violence REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The gardaí adopt “a zero tolerance approach” when it comes to cases of domestic abuse and violence, Garda Chief Superintendent Derek Smart has stated. Reacting to an increase of 11% in domestic abuse cases in Tipperary so far this year, he has stated “when it is reported to us we will act on it and we will support all victims, particularly those in vulnerable positions”. Tipperary Live (Republic of Ireland) 7/8/2022 News Labour leader: Police Scotland must recruit and promote minority officers as a matter of urgency Police Scotland must recruit and promote more ethnic minority officers as a priority, according to Anas Sarwar. The leader of Scottish Labour, who heads a parliamentary group on tackling racial prejudice, spoke out after figures revealed just 228 black and minority ethnic (BME) officers have been recruited since the national force was created in 2013. The statistics also show 17 of the 116 BME officers recruited between 2013 and 2020 left in the same period. The Sunday Post 7/8/2022 News Dyfed-Powys Police awarded by Ministry of Defence Heddlu Dyfed-Powys Police’s commitment to people who have served in the Armed Forces has been recognised by the Ministry of Defence. The force is one of 21 organisations in Wales to achieve the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Silver Award for 2022. Western Telegraph 7/8/2022 News Police commissioner left war zones for Wiltshire ‘I found I had a brain’ A former special forces intelligence officer, who has served undercover in Northern Ireland and helped rid Somalia of pirates, says he has the skill set to turn around one of the UK's failing police forces. Express 7/8/2022 Feature All the areas in Wales where police have used dispersal orders to crack down on antisocial behaviour Police have used dispersal orders in at least 13 places across Wales this year. The crackdowns dealt with issues ranging from drunkenness at the beach to troublemakers at McDonald's. The Section 35 powers mean officers can exclude people from an area for up to 48 hours if they are considered to pose a risk of antisocial behaviour causing people harassment, alarm or distress. The orders also allow officers to take under-16s away from the dispersal area and to a safe place. Wales Online 7/8/2022 News Alabama city disbands police force after racist text messages revealed USA: City council in small community of Vincent votes to terminate police chief, assistant and then whole department The Guardian 7/8/2022 News Garda told Bailey he would be contacted by cold case unit REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Former Assistant Garda Commissioner John O’Driscoll wrote to Ian Bailey on his last day in the job, confirming the garda review of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s murder and his expectation that the “investigation team will make contact with you in early course”. The letter, dated June 28, was the last act of the former senior officer, who retired on age grounds the same day. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 7/8/2022 News Kidnappings in Greater Manchester rise by 70 per cent in just one year to highest figure in a decade Child abductions in the region have also increased Manchester Evening News 7/8/2022 News Senior police officer who harassed five female staff sent to work at abuse unit West Mercia Police received a string of complaints about Detective Inspector Craig Smith for “acting inappropriately” towards female staff but he was transferred to a unit that handles sexual abuse cases Mirror 7/8/2022 News Watchdog launches investigation after Metropolitan Police officers shoot armed suspect Scotland Yard confronted a suspected gunman during a "serious incident" in Creek Road, Greenwich, southeast London on Friday afternoon - which is not believed to be terror related. Sky News 7/8/2022 News Millions living in areas where police not trained in handling domestic violence Only one force in England and Wales says all its officers have received the recommended training and nine forces have not trained any The Guardian 7/8/2022 News ‘I transitioned after 15 years as a Met police officer — and everything changed’ Natalie Ashton says she never faced discrimination in the force as a man but was ostracised by colleagues and passed over for promotions as a woman The Times - Subscription at source 6/8/2022 News Met denies racism after black man ‘choked’ in illegal stop and search Metropolitan police apology and £30,000 payout for ‘incident’ on Chiswick Common that left Zac Sharif-Ali ‘gasping for breath’ The Guardian 6/8/2022 News Lack of police training could stymie success of coercive control laws: experts AUSTRALIA: Comprehensive training and development across NSW Police is needed to underpin the state government’s push to make coercive control a crime, legal and domestic violence experts warn. The Perrottet government introduced a draft bill in July that would enshrine coercive control as a crime by creating an offence to carry out repeated abusive behaviours towards a current or former intimate partner. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 6/8/2022 News Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020) As digital platforms that expand opportunities to create, distribute, and access content online, social media are transforming the policing landscape. While scholars have considered social media’s contradictory effects on police services’ public image and operational capacity, less is known about how patterns of technological use are reported within the mainstream press. Employing a mixed-methods content analysis, this article assesses how Canadian newspapers framed the policing-social media relationship over a 15-year period, and how such representations can affect public opinion and policy. It finds, despite minor fluctuations over time and across outlets, news organizations prioritized police perspectives and offered overwhelmingly favourable assessments with social media being constructed as a valuable tool of crime prevention and control. The broader implications of these findings for perceptions of law enforcement and relations between the news media and institutional power are provided. Criminology and Criminal Justice 6/8/2022 Research article More police promised for Chicago trains after fatal shooting USA: Officials are pledging to reinforce security on Chicago Transit Authority trains after the shooting death of a passenger The Independent 6/8/2022 News «182418251826182718281829183018311832Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events