Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104630 total results. Showing results 4001 to 4020 «197198199200201202203204205Next ›Last » Lethbridge Police celebrate K9 graduation CANADA: Lethbridge Police have welcomed the newest four-legged member to the K9 unit. Blue Line (Canada) 29/4/2025 News Police-reported crime in rural areas in the Canadian provinces, 2023 CANADA: The police-reported crime rate in the provinces and the Crime Severity Index (CSI) are consistently higher on a year-over-year basis in rural areas than in urban areas. In 2023, the police-reported crime rate was 34% higher in rural areas than in urban areas. Statistics Canada 29/4/2025 Report Cork garda unit amalgamations the result of Drew Harris’ operational policing model, GRA president says REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The GRA, which represents almost 13,000 frontline gardaí, is holding its annual conference in Killarney this week. Echo Live (Republic of Ireland) 29/4/2025 News Have Your Say: Ireland’s Policing Priorities for 2026-2028 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Today, the Policing and Community Safety Authority (PCSA) launched its public consultation on the Policing Priorities for An Garda Síochána for 2026-2028. Policing and Community Safety Authority (PCSA) (Republic of Ireland) 29/4/2025 News 2024 Hate Crime Data and Related Discriminatory Motives REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: An Garda Síochána has today published figures on Hate Crimes and Hate Related (non-crime) Incidents reported during 2024. This is the forth such publication having previously published figures for 2021, 2022 and 2023. An Garda Síochána 29/4/2025 Report IOPC to ‘liaise’ with North Wales Police after officer cleared of GBH on teenage boy The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has said it would "liaise" with North Wales Police (NWP) on what its next steps are after an officer was found not guilty of grievous bodily harm. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 News First ever ‘Lived Experience’ conference launched to understand rape victims’ trauma The first ever 'Lived Experience' conference has been launched to create a space where officers can understand and learn from the trauma of victims of rape and serious sexual abuse. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 News Kingsmill Massacre police watchdog report due to be released The long-awaited police watchdog report into the Kingsmill Massacre, known as one of the most notorious incidents of the Northern Ireland Troubles, is due to be released. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 News Development and validation of the Rapport-Pro for investigative information-gathering contexts This paper aims to present the development and validation of a new measure of rapport designed specifically for measuring attempts to build rapport in professional information-gathering contexts. Guided by best practice recommendations and informed by a systematic review, the development of the “Rapport-Pro” followed three initial phases: (i) construct identification and item generation, (ii) pretesting and face validity assessment and (iii) expert evaluation and content validity. Following established scale development standards, two online studies examined the psychometric properties of the Rapport-Pro, considering its accuracy and appropriateness in measuring rapport in professional contexts. Study 1 (n = 172) included the three initial development phases and a confirmatory factor analysis, which supported a second-order model where five rapport components loaded onto a higher-order rapport factor. Item response theory analysis further confirmed item discriminability and the reliability of the Rapport-Pro. Study 2 (n = 399) sought to replicate the findings from Study 1, suggesting good factorial and concurrent validity, while also examining construct validity by assessing the Rapport-Pro’s alignment with related constructs such as “active listening,” “trust” and “expertise” through convergent and discriminant validity checks. The successful replication of evidence supporting factorial and concurrent validity from Study 1 attests to the stability and effectiveness of the Rapport-Pro in detecting variations in rapport. With evidence of factorial, construct, face, content and concurrent validity, the Rapport-Pro addresses theoretical gaps and practical needs, emerging as a robust instrument for assessing professional rapport and enhancing official guidelines, training and practice of rapport-building strategies. Journal of Criminal Psychology 29/4/2025 Research article What motivations drive resistance and cooperation during investigative interviews? This paper aims to explore motivations to resist (or not) during an investigative interview when being asked to provide information about another person’s transgressions. In this paper, the authors present an analysis of decisions to admit or deny guilty-knowledge regarding the transgressions of another, as well as self-reported motivations for those decisions, from a large data set of 743 participants. This analysis revealed that accusatorial-style interviews produce fewer admissions of guilty-knowledge and more denials, while also producing more false admissions from persons who do not possess the sought-after guilty knowledge compared to information-gathering interviews. The underlying motivations for these decisions were found to differ not only based on whether the subject possessed guilty knowledge, but also depending on the investigative interview strategy used. Results are discussed in terms of human-intelligence collection and witness scenarios where guilty-knowledge about the acts of another are sought. Journal of Criminal Psychology - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 Research article Prosecuting Police Prosecutors face criticism for prosecuting too many minority members and too few police. Recently, some reformers have won prosecutorial elections by pledging to change these priorities. Yet scholars have identified two impediments to police prosecutions. First, county prosecutors often answer to suburban voters indifferent to the excesses of city police. Second, prosecutors depend on those police to investigate their cases and to endorse them as effective. This Article argues that the influence of residents and police on prosecutorial decisions depends on the political geography of a prosecutor’s office. As a result, whether a prosecutor’s office is “city-based,” “regional,” or “state-appointed” shapes a prosecutor’s motivation and decision to prosecute police. Examining nationwide data on charging police, we find that prosecutors are indeed more likely to prosecute police when a greater proportion of their constituents are served by the same police department. This effect is further amplified at higher levels of Black (but not Hispanic) residency. Case studies of specific prosecutorial districts suggest an explanation for this finding. Urban party organizations and Black civil society networks offer a political infrastructure for mobilizing residents against the abuses of police departments. The degree and impact of this mobilization is greater when more of the prosecutor’s constituents fall under the same police jurisdiction, especially when the prosecutor relies on the same political infrastructure to win elections. CRIMRXIV - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 Research article Police urged to build international partnerships to tackle sextortion as cases surge leading to teen suicides The number of sextortion cases reported to the US National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children skyrocketed from 139 in 2021 to 26,000 in 2023, and the crime is now ruining young lives in countries around the world; Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons spoke to cybercrime analyst Paul Raffile and financial investigator Detective Brad Thorne about the scale of the problem, the importance of police investigating cases, and the need to overcome challenges around international co-operation. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 Analysis, Feature, Interview Frontrunner emerges to replace Serena Kennedy as Merseyside Police chief constable The frontrunner to become the new chief constable of Merseyside Police following Serena Kennedy's retirement has been announced. Rob Carden, who is currently the chief constable of Cumbia Constabulary, has been announced as the preferred candidate of Emily Spurrell, Merseyside's police and crime commissioner. Liverpool Echo 29/4/2025 News Frontline police officers barred from carrying life-saving drug naloxone AUSTRALIA: Victoria’s frontline police officers have been told they are not allowed to carry a free, life-saving overdose-reversal drug over fears they could be open to civil and criminal prosecution if they administer it on the job. That is despite average Australians being able to administer the same drug to others without a prescription under a federal government initiative seeking to encourage peer-to-peer use to prevent opioid-related deaths. The Age (Australia) - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 News New standards published to strengthen resilience and emergency response to threats The emergency services have collaborated with the Government on new set of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Resilience and Emergencies Police Professional 29/4/2025 News Increase in hate-related crimes and incidents in 2024, gardaí say REPUBLIC IRELAND: There was an increase in hate-related crimes and incidents in 2024, according to new figures from An Garda Siochána. There were 732 discriminatory motivated incidents or crimes last year, according to figures from the Garda Pulse system, a 4 per cent increase on 696 in 2023 and up from 483 in 2021. Breaking News (Republic of Ireland) 29/4/2025 News PCC announces preferred candidate to be next chief constable of Merseyside Police Merseyside’s police and crime commissioner (PCC) has announced that Rob Carden is her preferred choice to be the next chief constable of Merseyside Police. Police Professional 29/4/2025 News Eight countries launch Operational Taskforce to tackle violence-as-a-service EUROPE: Europol has launched a new Operational Taskforce (OTF) to tackle the rising trend of violence-as-a-service and the recruitment of young perpetrators into serious and organised crime. Known as OTF GRIMM, the Taskforce, led by Sweden, brings together law enforcement authorities from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway, with Europol providing operational support, threat analysis and coordination. Europol 29/4/2025 News Government announces measures to tighten laws around crossbow sales The previous Conservative government launched a consultation in February 2024 on introducing further controls on crossbow ownership. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 News Cumbria chief preferred candidate to replace Merseyside CC Serena Kennedy Subject to approval by Merseyside’s Police and Crime Panel, Rob Carden will replace Serena Kennedy in September following her decision to retire. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 29/4/2025 News «197198199200201202203204205Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
