Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115862 total results. Showing results 39901 to 39920 «199219931994199519961997199819992000Next ›Last » ‘It’s like they’re impervious’: fury at let-off for Queensland police staff in racist recordings AUSTRALIA: Officers recorded making “sickening” racist comments while working inside a Brisbane watch house have escaped sanction, despite repeated promises by the police commissioner to crack down on racism and misogyny within the service. The Guardian 11/9/2023 News PSA President questions decision to call in HMIC over policing activism Paul Fotheringham also used his presidential address to emphasise the importance of neighbourhood policing as a 'must have' and urged government to engage more on welfare. Police Oracle 11/9/2023 News UK police, retailers partner to fight shoplifting with biometrics The country’s largest retailers have agreed to fund a new biometric police operation that matches CCTV images of shoplifters with those in a national police database. BiometricUpdate.com 11/9/2023 News ‘Not in public interest’ to prosecute for possession in consumption room Scotland's Lord Advocate stressed she had not been asked to 'sign off or approve' such a facility. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 11/9/2023 News Police can defeat crime. I’ve proved it as top cop of LA and New York When discussing law enforcement on either side of the Atlantic, I remember a quote from the late-great cop and former First Deputy Commissioner of the NYPD, John Timoney: “those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it, and those who study policing know we don’t study history”. The Telegraph - Subscription at source 11/9/2023 Feature, Opinion Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley claims the CPS treats police officers differently when deciding whether to press charges, ‘dragging innocent officers through years of stress’ Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley has claimed the Crown Prosecution Service is too eager to press charges against police officers accused of dangerous driving while pursuing suspects. Mail Online 11/9/2023 News PaDP ‘should no longer be’ a policing responsibility Neil Basu says he doesn't know what Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is going to do with PaDP, but whatever measures are taken must be 'radical'. Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection (PaDP) is 'not a policing function' according to former Met Commissioner. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 11/9/2023 News ‘Dispiriting oversight’ undermines officer confidence to chase criminals Met Commissioner says officers' perception of police work changes significantly shortly after they join. Officers face 'dispiriting oversight' with their confidence to chase criminals undermined by the prospect of possible prosecution if a suspect is killed or hurt in a pursuit, the Met Commissioner has said. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 11/9/2023 News PSNI data breach: Spreadsheet ‘highlighted police commanders’ A spreadsheet allegedly found on the phone of a man facing terrorism-related charges highlighted police commanders, the High Court has heard. The document, linked to a major police data breach, also allegedly highlighted an officer previously targeted in a dissident republican bomb attempt. BBC 11/9/2023 News Quebec secret trial: Informant suing police for $5.8M CANADA: A police informant at the heart of a secret trial in Quebec is suing authorities for roughly $5.8 million, claiming that police and a prosecutor have undermined confidence in the system to protect collaborators. The unnamed informant, described in the Aug. 28 lawsuit as the “designated person,” accuses police officers of acting in bad faith by reneging on the co-operation deal and then allegedly blackmailing him or her. “By acting in this way, the police service, the police officers involved and the prosecutor undermine confidence in the judicial system, undermine that of past, current and future police informants, and unfortunately, ultimately cause the regression of the effectiveness of their mission to stop crime,” the lawsuit says. Global News (Canada) 11/9/2023 News Some Black Nova Scotians are skeptical a change in Halifax’s police chief will improve relations CANADA: Some members of Halifax's African Nova Scotian community say they're skeptical that a change in regional police leadership will make much of a difference in fixing their relationship with the force. Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella announced his retirement on Wednesday, after taking on the role in 2019. CBC News (Canada) 11/9/2023 News Criticism hurled at pace of Surrey police transition as report finds ‘no clear plan’ CANADA: As seven new constables begin work at the Surrey Police Service — its fifth group of rookie recruits — one municipal councillor is criticizing the pace of Surrey’s hotly-debated police transition. In a progress report on the process, municipal staff claim there is “no clear plan or any supporting documents in place” to carry out provincial instructions to phase out the RCMP and bring the fledgling SPS into full force. Global News (Canada) 11/9/2023 News South Australia’s top cop handed six-figure pay rise AUSTRALIA: South Australia's top cop will take home an extra $101,000 this year after being handed a huge pay rise, 9News can reveal. Police Commissioner Grant Stevens recently landed a five-year job extension, which came with a large increase to his salary. 9 News (Australia) 11/9/2023 News Offending Patterns in Cases of Sexual Violence Committed by Multiple Perpetrators Sexual violence committed by multiple perpetrators is a particularly worrying phenomenon given that the severity of psychopathological sequelae for the victims are increased when the sexual offense is committed by more than one offender. Preliminary studies showed that sexual violence committed by solo offenders is different from that of duos or groups of offenders. This study explores the heterogeneity within 983 cases of sexual violence committed by multiple perpetrators, with a focus not only on offenders’ modus operandi, but also victims’ routine activities and situational aspects of the crime. Results from a latent class analysis identified four offending patterns: sexual violence committed by multiple perpetrators where: 1) stranger victims were randomly selected; 2) offenders were geographically mobile; 3) victims were assaulted during social events; and 4) offenders were non-sexually motivated. Findings help identify situational characteristics interacting with offenders’ behaviors and victims’ routine activities associated with sexual violence committed by multiple perpetrators. The implications regarding the heterogeneity of criminal patterns in these forms of violence is discussed in relation to police practice, situational crime prevention strategies, and future research. Victims and Offenders 11/9/2023 Research article The Association between the Percentage of Female Law Enforcement Officers and Rape Report, Clearance, and Arrest Rates: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of California Rape is an underreported violent crime that frequently remains uncleared (open) in the legal system. Rape disproportionately affects women, with 91% of rape victim-survivors estimated to be female. However, law enforcement agencies, the entry point into the criminal justice system, are predominantly comprised of male officers. According to the theory of representative bureaucracy, groups with greater representation in a bureaucratic system are more likely to have their interests protected. This study aims to determine if California law enforcement agencies with a higher percentage of female officers are more likely to have higher rates of rape reporting, clearances, and arrests. No previous study has examined this relationship using statewide data. Crimes and Clearances, Monthly Arrest and Citation Register, and Uniform Crime Reporting data for California (2013–2016) were aggregated into 499 Law Enforcement Reporting Areas (LERA). Bayesian space-time Poisson regressions controlling for LERA demographics and crime produced scaled relative rates for three outcomes: (a) rape report rate: number of reports relative to population ages 18+; (b) rape clearance rate: number of clearances relative to reports; and (c) rape arrest rate: number of arrests for rape relative to reports. A 5% increase in the percentage of female officers within an agency was associated with a 6.2% increase in the rape report rate (ARR: 1.062, 95% credible interval (CI) [1.048, 1.077]), a 2.9% decrease in the clearance rate (ARR: 0.971 95% CI [0.950, 0.993]), and no change in the rape arrest rates (ARR: 1.010; 95% CI [0.981, 1.039]) across all LERA. Thus, increased female officer representation was associated with an increase in rape reporting rates but associated with a decrease in rape clearance rates. The theory of representative bureaucracy was only partially supported, and these relationships may not be causal. The quantity of rape reports received by an agency, employment and promotion practices of agencies, and victim-survivor’s attitudes toward officer’s gender should also be considered. Journal of Interpersonal Violence - Subscription at source 11/9/2023 Research article Statement on pilot safer drug consumption facility The Lord Advocate has responded to a request for a focused statement of prosecution policy in relation to a pilot safer drugs consumption facility in Glasgow. Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) 11/9/2023 News The Other Side of the Coin: An Analysis of Financial and Economic Crime The European Financial and Economic Crime Threat Assessment looks closely at current and emerging threats relating to financial and economic crime. Using insights and case examples from Europol’s dedicated crime centre, this report analyses the threats posed by money laundering, criminal finances and corruption, and how they have evolved as a result of technological and geopolitical changes. The report also examines the role of these crimes in the broader picture of international serious and organised crime, where criminal networks use financial and economic crime as a tool to obscure, and ultimately benefit from, profits made by illegal activities. Europol 11/9/2023 Report Crime Scene and Victim Characteristics in Sexual Homicide Cases Where the Body is Openly Displayed Research on body disposal methods in cases of sexual homicide primarily focused on the movement of the victim’s body from the crime scene to the dump site. Comparatively, little work has looked at whether crime scene analysis can indicate the final manner of disposal (i.e., how the body is found at the scene), despite the knowledge that these unique behaviors can aid investigators narrowing down suspects using readily available information from the crime scene. The current study used 662 solved cases of extrafamilial sexual homicide from an international database in a sequential logistic regression to test various predictors against the method of body disposal. Results indicate that inserting foreign objects into the victim, dismembering the victim, or engaging in post-mortem sexual activity is predictive of not openly displaying the body. Furthermore, the body is less likely to be openly displayed if the victim is a sex worker. Overkill is more likely to lead to the body being openly displayed. Implications for investigations of sexual homicide include the need to examine more than just infrequent unusual acts and to look at the entirety of the criminal event to gain a more well-rounded understanding of how offender behaviors can indicate particular body disposal methods. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Subscription at source 11/9/2023 Research article Retailers will now PAY police to stop shoplifters: Ten of UK’s largest stores will fund £600K ‘Project Pegasus’ to scan faces of thieves on CCTV – as Co-op hires undercover guards amid claims the crime is being ‘decriminalised’ Ten of Britain's top retailers have agreed to fund a police crackdown on shoplifting gangs - by paying cops to scan faces of thieves using CCTV. High street giants including John Lewis, Co-op, Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Next are among those reportedly pumping £600,000 into the operation, dubbed Project Pegasus. In return, police forces will run CCTV images of suspected shoplifters through the national database, which includes the latest facial recognition technology. Mail Online 11/9/2023 News Sara Sharif death: Pakistan police take children from grandfather’s house Sara Sharif's grandfather has told the BBC that five children who travelled from the UK to Pakistan with Sara's father have been taken by police. BBC 11/9/2023 News «199219931994199519961997199819992000Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
