Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 102722 total results. Showing results 4441 to 4460 «219220221222223224225226227Next ›Last » Head Hunter gang member’s death in cells: Police too slow to perform CPR, call ambulance – watchdog NEW ZEALAND: Police staff were slow to perform CPR and call an ambulance for an ailing Head Hunter gang member found unresponsive in the cells, a watchdog says. The Independent Police Conduct Authority also found officers incorrectly completed an evaluation form that was “missing vital information” following the arrest of Taranaki Fuimaono. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 3/3/2025 News Soaring UK crime costing up to £250bn a year, says thinktank Policy Exchange report blames austerity for breakdown in policing and criminal justice The Guardian 3/3/2025 News Toronto Public Health and Toronto Police Service’s community outreach initiative assists vulnerable groups in Toronto’s downtown core CANADA: The Downtown Community Outreach Response and Engagement (CORE) Team continues to have a positive impact on those most vulnerable in the Yonge and Dundas (Sankofa Square) area. “We’re averaging over 200 interactions per week as we build relationships and trust in this neighbourhood, and there have been positive stories coming in every day,” said S/Sgt. Dave Ouellette of the Downtown CORE Team. “In addition to providing immediate assistance, part of what the Downtown CORE teams are doing is offering long term case management solutions to vulnerable and underhoused people in the community.” In collaboration with Toronto Public Health and the Toronto Police Service, Downtown CORE is led by a team of public health nurses who offer on-the-ground community outreach and access to health and social services and Toronto Police officers who support these efforts, ensuring safety for everyone involved. Toronto Police Service (Canada) 3/3/2025 News The costs of crime – And how to reduce them This report from Policy Exchange is the latest in Policy Exchange’s landmark Policy Programme for Prosperity. Providing a detailed breakdown of the costs of crime and a series of proposals of how to reduce them – the report has calculated that the tangible costs of crime to the United Kingdom are about £170bn or around 6.5% of GDP. Of these costs, about £38bn are inflicted on businesses, £31bn on the public sector, and about £63bn against individuals. Policy Exchange 3/3/2025 Report Police shot man who died in Thames three times with stun gun, inquest hears Oladeji Omishore fell into water from Chelsea Bridge in 2022 after Met officers were called to incident The Guardian 3/3/2025 News Barrie Police seek access to city’s traffic management camera system CANADA: The Barrie Police Service is working with the City of Barrie to access to the City’s traffic management camera system as a resource for police investigations and active emergencies. This access will compliment the existing CCTV infrastructure operated by the Barrie Police. Barrie 360 (Canada) 3/3/2025 News How GMP dropped burglary rate by a third after ‘not being in very good place‘ Operation Castle's lead said 'police officers love nothing more than to catch a burglar in the act'. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 3/3/2025 News “This is not a scam!”: Assessment of an awareness raising program tackling older adults’ scam victimization in a multi-method study Interactive theatre has long been used to educate and empower communities and prevent crime across all age groups. Although older populations are disproportionately victimized through fraudulent online schemes, effective educational interventions, like interactive theatre, have not been utilized to increase crime awareness. This paper describes an explorational research project, analyzing the results of a theatre-based fraud awareness program aimed towards educating victims and their communities about scams targeting older people. The study employs a mixed method research design to examine program impact. In applying multifaceted tools of data collection, such as survey, participant observation, and follow-up interviews, the research team identified program effects, and age-specific appropriateness of the intervention. To close, we synthesized recommendations for program development. Qualitative Criminology 3/3/2025 Research article Evaluations of procedural justice: what drives practitioners’ support for interview procedures? An online experimental survey examined the degree to which 377 international practitioners endorsed procedural justice principles in interviews. Participants were recruited through policing and intelligence agencies in 15 countries in the Asia Pacific and Europe. One section of the survey was administered as a 3 (Coercion: coercive, non-coercive, mixed) x 2 (Crime Harm: high, low) between-subjects experiment to test effects on practitioners’ evaluations of an interview vignette. We predicted that coercion and crime harm would interact to affect procedural evaluations, with tolerance of coercive procedures when the harm caused by a crime was high but not when crime harm was low. We also expected the effect of coercion on procedural evaluations to be mediated primarily by practitioner perceptions that the interview procedure would effectively gather useful information. Counter to these predictions, findings indicated that this sample of experienced practitioners strongly favoured non-coercive interview strategies, and their satisfaction with these procedures was driven equally by perceptions that these procedures were respectful of the detainee and effective in gathering useful information, and less strongly driven by perceptions that the detainee was treated as they deserved. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for best practice in investigative interviewing. Psychology Crime and Law 3/3/2025 Research article Police use number-plate spotting systems more often NEW ZEALAND: Police use of number-plate spotting systems has skyrocketed to nearly 700,000 times a year - or almost 2000 times every day. Two years ago, the systems were used a third of that amount. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 3/3/2025 News Concern that Police failed to discharge their duty of care to man in custody NEW ZEALAND: On Sunday, 13 June 2021, Mr Taranaki Fuimaono died after becoming unresponsive while in custody at the Auckland Police Custody Unit. The Independent Police Conduct Authority conducted an independent investigation into the care Police provided while he was in custody, prior to his death. Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) (New Zealand) 3/3/2025 Report Police use of number-plate systems triples, legal challenges dismissed NEW ZEALAND: Police use of number plate-spotting systems has skyrocketed to nearly 700,000 times a year – or almost 2000 times every day. Two years ago, the systems were used a third of that amount. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 3/3/2025 News Police boss says area ‘safest in South West’ A police superintendent has said his patch is the best in the Devon and Cornwall force's region for the apprehension of criminals. BBC 3/3/2025 News Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: how the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance The recent ‘lenient turn’ in Chinese crime policy has prompted the rise of humanitarianism and the establishment of the rehabilitation ideal in drug governance. Despite rich insights into the workings of drug rehabilitation and its effects on offenders, scarce research has been conducted to address how this broad policy shift affects the exercise of discretion by the police, who are primarily tasked with drug enforcement in China. Using data from an ethnographic project on drug policing in one Chinese city, the present study examines how police make sense of and adapt to the increased policy demand for the rehabilitation of people who use drugs. The analysis reveals that police officers have vigorously interwoven control and care logics into their routine activities surrounding drug control, devising and deploying tactics within the penal-welfare continuum for situational accomplishments of drug rehabilitation. Consequently, their modes of implementation crystallize into forms of coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control. Research and practice implications for the increased use of police in drug rehabilitation in particular and social problems in general are also discussed. Policing and Society 3/3/2025 Research article Police special in court over sexual assault charge A former police special superintendent has appeared in court charged with sexual assault. BBC 3/3/2025 News Met warns farmers could be arrested if they drive tractors at rally It comes after previous demonstrations by farmers caused lengthy traffic jams when they drove their tractors throughout central London. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 3/3/2025 News Memorial to mark 40 years since nine RUC officers murdered in IRA attack Former RUC assistant chief constable William Stewart, who was the divisional commander in Newry on the day of the attack, spoke during Sunday's memorial. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 3/3/2025 News Officers will feel ‘abandoned’ after ‘beyond disappointing’ PfG promises – PFNI The federation said the Northern Irish government failed to make "cast-iron promises on police numbers and general funding". Police Oracle - Subscription at source 3/3/2025 News Alberta to have peace officers tag team with police on fentanyl crackdown CANADA: The Alberta government says roughly 800 peace officers will team up with 34 police forces across the province to crack down on fentanyl. Blue Line (Canada) 3/3/2025 News B.C. First Nation files Charter challenge over RCMP refusal to enforce bylaws CANADA: Inaction by the RCMP has emboldened criminals to enter and stay on First Nation reserve lands without the fear of consequences, worsening a drug crisis and violence, the Heiltsuk Tribal Council says. Blue Line (Canada) 3/3/2025 News «219220221222223224225226227Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
