Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100546 total results. Showing results 40461 to 40480 «202020212022202320242025202620272028Next ›Last » Police: Child sex offender register delivery pushing capacity NEW ZEALAND: Overburdened police are struggling to deliver an effective child sex offender register. A proactively released Cabinet paper said there was "still work to be done" to make sure the register was working as intended. Between October 2019, when an evaluation of the first three years of the register was concluded, and June last year, there was a 16 per cent total increase of people on the register, from 2687 to 3114, the Cabinet paper said. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 14/8/2022 News Man mistakenly held at gunpoint by cops ‘not surprised’ at lack of police policy for victims NEW ZEALAND: A police victims' advocate and a man mistakenly arrested and held at gunpoint by officers are slamming police for the continued lack of a policy to protect victims. Newshub (New Zealand) 14/8/2022 News Two women shot dead in Sydney’s south-west killed in targeted ‘assassination’, police say AUSTRALIA: The women – aged 48 and 39 – died after the offender opened fire on them as they sat in a car on Saturday night The Guardian 14/8/2022 News Blockade Australia shut down Sydney with climate change protests. Now they’re fighting arrests in court AUSTRALIA: Elizabeth Hartrick took part in the Blockade Australia protests which brought Sydney to a standstill in June ABC News (Australia) 14/8/2022 News City’s only gay bar says police are trying to ‘crucify’ them after drugs and sword violence reports Canterbury’s only gay bar has claimed police are trying to “crucify” it after its licence was put under review following a number of call-outs. Pink News 14/8/2022 News CPS halts prosecution of six protesters for attending Sarah Everard vigil The six protesters had been accused of breaking lockdown rules by attending the vigil. Express & Star 14/8/2022 News Sarah Everard: Met Police stops prosecutions over vigil The six protesters had been accused of breaking lockdown rules by attending the vigil The Standard 14/8/2022 News Raymond J. de Souza: Criminal justice has a credibility problem — in Canada as well as the U.S CANADA: Decades of police and prosecutorial abuses have demonstrated that it is right for us to be suspicious National Post (Canada) 14/8/2022 Feature, Opinion Drug gangs use remote airfields to land heroin and cocaine REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The gardai have increased surveillance after reports of waiting cars meeting small aircraft The Times - Subscription at source 14/8/2022 News Public to be consulted on plan to erase historical convictions for homosexuality REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Helen McEntee has received final plans from an expert working group examining how the State can overturn criminal convictions for historic “crimes” committed by gay and bisexual men. The Independent 14/8/2022 News Met Police out to mark centenary in fine style One year out from its centenary, Metropolitan Police RFC and police rugby in general is enjoying something of a revival. Back in the amateur days, the Met Police and South Wales Police boasted a fixture list that was the envy of most club sides The Rugby Paper - Subscription at source 14/8/2022 Feature Frontline police to get latest protective vests AUSTRALIA: Queensland Police will soon be among the best protected frontline officers in the world, with new state of the art vests to be rolled out across the state. In good news for our frontline officers, the Queensland Police Service (QPS) has signed a contract to ensure the next generation of vests are on-line as soon as possible to enhance officer safety. Police Minister Mark Ryan said the new integrated load-bearing vests (ILBV) would see police better protected, with the combined ballistic and edged weapon safety features part of police officer’s operational uniform for the first time in Queensland’s 168-year policing history. Queensland Government (Australia) 14/8/2022 News Our politicised police force are the enforcers of political correctness and wokery, not law and order, says Darren Grimes A nation without property rights and robust protection by the enforcers of the rule of law can never be a free nation GB News 14/8/2022 Feature, Opinion Translation errors in police interviews could send innocent people to jail Picture this. You are in a foreign country. The police arrest you and realise that you don’t speak the language. So, they organise someone to translate. If you’re lucky, the person they contact is a professional interpreter. If you’re unlucky, the person is a multilingual police officer who happens to speak your language just well enough to scrape through an interview. Either way, you are now having to talk through someone else. Does this interpreter-mediated interviewing put you at a disadvantage? If so, how much? The answer to this lies at the intersection of criminal psychology and cognitive linguistics, where researchers have realised that interpreters are an overlooked barrier between suspects and their freedom. Science Focus 14/8/2022 Feature N.W.T. RCMP deploy controversial roadside cannabis screening devices CANADA: RCMP in the Northwest Territories have begun using roadside cannabis-screening technology that has faced criticism from defence lawyers elsewhere in Canada. CTV News (Canada) 13/8/2022 News History is at risk of being lost forever amid rise in heritage crime, police chief warns Churches and historic sites are increasingly being targeted by thieves who are confident they will get away without being spotted The Telegraph - Subscription at source 13/8/2022 News Daughters of man slain following Vancouver Island prison escape sue Correctional Service of Canada CANADA: Martin Payne’s family says in civil claim CSC was ‘negligent, reckless,’ in handling, responding to inmates CBC News (Canada) 13/8/2022 News Graeme Biggar CBE appointed Director General of the National Crime Agency The Home Secretary has appointed Graeme Biggar CBE as Director General of the National Crime Agency (NCA). National Crime Agency (NCA) 13/8/2022 News Anger as Scots police division lost 10 per cent of available officers in one yea The stats come from Police Scotland’s quarterly report and reveal a drop of 458 cops covering Ayrshire between June 2021 and June 2022. Daily Record 13/8/2022 News How the Germans deal with the eco-mob! Riot police crack down on green protesters trying to bring Hamburg to a standstill by using batons, pepper spray and water cannon GERMANY: German police employed batons, pepper spray and water cannons against a group of eco-zealots on Saturday as they staged a sit-down protest on a major railway supply line in Hamburg. Mail Online 13/8/2022 News «202020212022202320242025202620272028Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
