Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103232 total results. Showing results 40001 to 40020 «199719981999200020012002200320042005Next ›Last » ‘There’s only one way to deal with a rat – put it down’: the undercover officer who infiltrated Liverpool’s gangs Having spent more than a year working covertly to target serious criminals involved in drug smuggling, David Taylor was pulled off the operation and he wants to know why The Guardian 31/10/2022 Feature Metropolitan Police’s gang list cut after bias claims A police database to tackle gang crime in London has removed hundreds of names after criticism that it disproportionately targets young black men. More than 1,200 people assessed as “low risk” have been deleted from the Metropolitan Police’s gang violence matrix after a review by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime. The database was set up after the 2011 riots to identify and assess gang members and those at risk of victimisation. The Times - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 News It’s mad to record petty problems as crime, says police chief Incivility and petty disputes are being routinely recorded as crime, warping statistics and scaring the public, one of the country’s most senior police officers has warned. Sir David Thompson, chief constable of the West Midlands, told The Times that crime was being measured in a “completely mad way”. Verbal arguments between neighbours, and people’s fear of violence, were being recorded as criminal acts, which distorted the public’s view, he said. The Times - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 News Talking with Professor Fiona Brookman of the University of South Wales As part of his Policing Friendship Tour, Policing Insight and PolicingTV Publisher Bernard Rix met the University of South Wales' Professor Fiona Brookman, a speaker at the recent International Organised Crime Summit in Santiago, Chile, organised by PDI Chile. PolicingTV - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Talking with Professor Fiona Brookman of the University of South Wales As part of his Policing Friendship Tour, Policing Insight and PolicingTV Publisher Bernard Rix met the University of South Wales' Professor Fiona Brookman, a speaker at the recent International Organised Crime Summit in Santiago, Chile, organised by PDI Chile. PolicingTV 31/10/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Yuliya Zabelina: ‘Without political will it’s unlikely any meaningful change can be made against organised crime’ In the latest in a series of interviews with leading figures involved in the research and investigation of organised crime, Policing Insight’s Chris Allen spoke to Yuliya Zabelina, Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about growing up in a culture influenced by organised crime, the infiltration by organised crime groups (OCGs) of legal enterprises, and the need for political will for any counter-measures to be effective. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 Feature, Interview GPS tagging migrants ‘psychological torture’, says report. Calls for GPS tagging to be abolished as report finds people left suicidal and stigmatised by the practice. The Guardian 31/10/2022 News Use of live facial recognition can pose ‘serious threats’, report finds. The report, from the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, developed an audit which was applied to three facial recognition deployments. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 News Budget variance for the period ending September 30, 2022 CANADA: This report provides information and updates to the Edmonton Police Commission (EPC) on the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) current financial position for the period ending September 30, 2022. [pdf] Edmonton Police Commission (Canada) 31/10/2022 Report Mayor and police join forces against SME cybercrime. London’s Met Police, City of London Police, British Transport Police and the Mayor’s office have jointly launched a new Cyber Resilience Centre for the capital city to combat rising levels of cybercrime. UKAuthority.com 31/10/2022 News Crime figures being warped by recording petty disputes as crime – police chief. Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a total of 6.5 million crimes were recorded in the 12 months to June 2022. The Independent 31/10/2022 News Met police chief to reform list of alleged gang members targeting black men. Exclusive: Sir Mark Rowley has already removed more than 1,000 young men from the force’s gang violence matrix. The Guardian 31/10/2022 News Review of government counter-terror strategy to tackle threats Refresh ensures UK system is able to continually adapt to new, emerging and persistent security threats Home Office 30/10/2022 News ‘You people’: second-top cop accused of racialised language towards Queensland First Nations leaders AUSTRALIA: First Nations leaders claim Queensland’s second-most senior police officer became angry and aggressive during a meeting with them, pointing his finger at a senior elder and saying “you people” don’t run the organisation. Amid wider claims of serious and systemic racism levelled at the Queensland police service (QPS) at a state inquiry, the relationship between the organisation and its formal First Nations advisory body appears to have substantially broken down. The Guardian 30/10/2022 News Met Police refuses to take action after ‘officer sends woman inappropriate texts’ PC Philip Hunter allegedly sent the woman a string of inappropriate texts in 2017, and left the force in July 2019 after being found guilty of gross misconduct in relation to another woman Mirror 30/10/2022 News Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs Risk discourse pervades criminal justice institutions. One such example is high-risk offender management programmes. Officers who work in these programmes routinely carry out an array of policing practices to manage high-risk individuals. To reduce risks of recidivism and facilitate social reintegration, these practices range from traditional law enforcement tactics of monitoring and surveilling, to collaborating with agencies and organisations outside of the criminal justice system. Here, the authors utilise the concept of risk consciousness to describe and analyze the cultural logics officers mobilise when perceiving, evaluating, and managing high-risk individuals. Using qualitative interviews conducted with police agents working in Canadian high-risk offender management programmes, this study examines how offender management agents justify and inform their actions. We find officers often invoke a reflexive risk consciousness to interpret and respond to subjects’ riskiness and behaviours. Drawing on different cultural scripts, agents frame subjects as both needing help and as dangerous offenders necessitating further monitoring and law enforcement intervention. In doing so, agents simplify offender management strategies by enforcing accountability while simultaneously neglecting subjects’ subjectivity. Policing and Society - Subscription at source 30/10/2022 Research article Time Saver or Time Sapper? An Examination of Body-Worn Camera Impact on Case Disposition Timelines In the last few years, a considerable volume of body-worn camera (BWC) studies has evaluated to what extent this technology influences a range of policing outcomes. However, to date, a limited body of research explores how the implementation of this technology influences court-based outcomes. Using interrupted series analysis, and a sample of 13,000 incidents from a small police department, this research evaluates to what extent the implementation of BWCs impacted the adjudication process through an analysis of time to disposition, rate of convictions, and rate of dismissals. The results of our study show partial support for claims being made about the impact of BWCs on the court system. Namely, the number of incidents being referred for prosecution and the number of guilty decisions being reached saw a marginal increase after the implementation of BWCs. Additionally, the number of days to complete adjudication saw a decrease overall during the post-implementation period. The policy implications of these findings are discussed. Criminal Justice Review - Subscription at source 30/10/2022 Research article Gardai set to take over Dublin social welfare office – as new €86million base isn’t big enough REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardai are set to take over a social welfare office in Dublin — as their new €86million base isn’t big enough. More than 1,000 cops — including a number of specialist teams — are due to move out of their current Harcourt Street HQ before the end of the year and set up in a command centre on the capital’s Military Road. The Irish Sun (Republic of Ireland) 30/10/2022 News Garda specialist units move is delayed as relocation ‘not properly planned’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The relocation of two of An Garda Síochána’s national specialist units to an industrial estate in Blanchardstown has been delayed. The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) and the Garda National Protective Services Bureau (GNPSB) are to be moved from Harcourt Square in the city centre to Clyde House in Blanchardstown. However, it is understood the building which the two units were due to move to in the coming weeks is not ready. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 30/10/2022 News Police chief says women and trans officers could put critic ‘on his backside’ The Chief Constable of West Midlands Police publicly jumped to the defence of female and trans officers - by promising they would put a magazine critic 'on his backside'. Sir David Thompson penned a stinging letter to The Spectator magazine about columnist Douglas Murray. The journalist had written an article last month questioning an alleged lack of female and trans officers involved in controlling factions during the recent Leicester disturbances between Muslim and Hindu communities. He later said: "I noted the number of female police officers... and said that I wasn’t sure if there were any trans police in the thin yellow line, or for that matter any gay cops busily dancing the macarena. For the police have spent recent decades assuring us that diversity is their strength." Birmingham Live 30/10/2022 News «199719981999200020012002200320042005Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
