Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104506 total results. Showing results 4761 to 4780 «235236237238239240241242243Next ›Last » Thames Valley Police ‘positive discrimination’ led to ‘divided workforce’ An independent review of Thames Valley Police’s DEI practices has found a ‘divided workforce’ after three white officers won their race discrimination claim for being overlooked for promotion. Personnel Today 4/4/2025 News Probationer spared jail for leaking details of mass shooting and high-profile murder Bristol Crown Court heard that PC Sam Hill would access confidential police logs and shared information with her family, friends and also within a WhatsApp group. A Devon and Cornwall probationer who disclosed confidential information to friends and family about one of Britain’s worst mass shootings and a high-profile murder has avoided a prison sentence. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 4/4/2025 News Regina police chief removed from active service due to complaint CANADA: Regina police chief Farooq Sheikh has been removed from active service following a review from the Public Complaints Commission (PCC). Few details are being provided at this time but in a release the organization said it is reviewing a complaint filed by a community member against Sheikh. Global News (Canada) 4/4/2025 News Quebec’s Court of Appeal rejects arbitrary police stops ahead of Supreme Court hearing CANADA: Negative impacts on racialized people outweigh benefits to public, says province's high court CBC News (Canada) 4/4/2025 News Regina police chief removed from active service as complaint by ‘community member’ investigated CANADA: Deputy Chief Lorilee Davies has been appointed interim police chief while Saskatchewan's Public Complaints Commission investigates. Regina Leader-Post (Canada) 4/4/2025 News Calgary police officers no longer have to provide their name CANADA: The policy change, part of a 12-month pilot program, is meant to improve the safety of Calgary police officers and reduce the potential for "doxing" Calgary Herald (Canada) 4/4/2025 News Ottawa Police statement on homicides in 2025 CANADA: The Ottawa Police Service recognizes the concern and unease in our community following three homicides in just one week. While these incidents are not connected, that does not make them any less tragic. Three lives have been senselessly lost, and families, friends, and loved ones are now grieving. Our thoughts are with them during this incredibly difficult time. We share the community’s concerns about the level of violence in our city. So far in 2025, there have been eight homicides. Our investigators have worked tirelessly, and charges have been laid in six of these cases. The remaining two cases remain under active investigation, and we will not stop until those responsible are held accountable. Ottawa Police Service (Canada) 4/4/2025 News The deeper harms of deepfakes: with no control over likeness, potential for abuse is huge Consequences go far beyond financial, technological disruption, says Ada Lovelace Institute. Typically, when discussing the risks presented by deepfakes created using generative AI tools, the warnings are about how you might get tricked by a fake boss or politician. But arguably a bigger and much sinister threat is identity theft – which is to say, what happens when the deepfake is you. While scam calls can empty bank accounts, deepfakes that use a person’s likeness in pornographic, violent or humiliating content can leave deeper psychological scars – especially for women. BiometricUpdate.com 4/4/2025 News Police make 30 arrests a day for offensive online messages Civil liberties groups say that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech using vague laws The Times - Subscription at source 4/4/2025 News Officer sacked over explicit pictures of colleague A police officer has been sacked after taking consensual explicit pictures of a female officer in a police station. The male officer from Warwickshire Police, who can only be referred to as PC Z, took the intimate pictures of the woman while she was on duty at Leamington police station, a misconduct hearing was informed. BBC 4/4/2025 News Ex-police worker faces trial over 3D-printed gun A former Lincolnshire Police worker accused of attempting to manufacture a 3D-printed sub-machine gun is due to stand trial in June. Zoe Watts, who had worked as a police community support officer for more than eight years, was arrested by armed officers at her home in Lincoln on 11 December. BBC 4/4/2025 News NSW Police to launch crackdown on youth crime rates AUSTRALIA: New South Wales Police are set to launch a crackdown on youth crime across the regions. According to the Daily Telegraph, police have investigated almost 1,800 break and enters and 1,700 car thefts over the past 18 months. Sky News 4/4/2025 News About a quarter of people feel more safe than a year ago – poll NEW ZEALAND: More people don't feel any safer than they did twelve months ago than those who do, despite the government making safety a key part of its law and order reforms. Since entering office, the government has passed a suite of law and order legislation, including banning gang patches and giving police the power to issue dispersal notices, granting police more search powers, restoring Three Strikes legislation and bringing in caps to sentence reductions. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 4/4/2025 News New 10-year strategy to end domestic abuse epidemic launched A new strategy aimed at tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG) has been launched in Cleveland, the region's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has announced. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 4/4/2025 News Automated question type coding of forensic interviews and trial testimony in child sexual abuse cases. Question-type classification is widely used as a measure of interview quality. However, question-type coding is a time-consuming process when performed by manual coders. Reliable automated question-type coding approaches would facilitate the assessment of the quality of forensic interviews and court testimony involving victims of child abuse. We expected that the reliability achieved by the automated model would be comparable to manual coders. We examined whether a large language model (Robustly Optimized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Approach) trained on questions (N = 351,920) asked in forensic interviews (n = 1,435) and trial testimony (n = 416) involving 3- to 17-year-old alleged victims of child sexual abuse could distinguish among (a) invitations, (b) wh-questions, (c) option-posing questions, and (d) nonquestions. Results: The model achieved high reliability (95% agreement; κ = .93). To determine whether disagreements were due to machine or manual errors, we recoded inconsistencies between the machine and manual codes. Manual coders erred more often than the machine, particularly by overlooking invitations and nonquestions. Correcting errors in the manual codes further increased the model’s reliability (98% agreement; κ = .97). Automated question-type coding can provide a time-efficient and highly accurate alternative to manual coding. We have made the trained model publicly available for use by researchers and practitioners. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved) Law and Human Behavior - Subscription at source 4/4/2025 Research article Beyond Traditional Risk Scores: Tackling LS/CMI Offender Misclassifications with Machine Learning This paper investigates the accuracy of offender risk assessment scoring methods. We study the degree of misclassification resulting from the conventional practice of aggregating individual items to derive risk scores and categories. We document which types of offenders are prone to misclassification, particularly in relation to age and gender. We use a machine learning algorithm to leverage the rich set of information available in the LS/CMI. Using all 45,535 assessments conducted between 2008 and 2015 in Quebec (Canada), we estimate probabilities from a random forest algorithm to predict individual risks of recidivism over a two-year follow-up. We compare the resulting probabilities to those inferred from the risk scores or categories to document the extent of misclassification. We devise a simple algorithm to construct alternative risk categories that reduce misclassification relative to the LS/CMI total scores and categories. The probabilities obtained from the random forest approach accurately predict individual probabilities to reoffend. Compared with these predictions, the traditional aggregation of items into risk scores or categories yields substantial misclassification for certain groups of offenders. In particular, we find that the risk associated with older individuals when using the LS/CMI risk categories is overestimated by about 10 percentage points. Our alternative risk categories, devised from our machine learning predictions, successfully avoid such misclassification. Traditional methods of aggregating items from risk assessments into scores may lead to substantial misclassification, especially for older offenders. Misclassification arises from 1) items not being equally risk-relevant; 2) information collected by the LS/CMI being excluded or overly simplified when constructing scores; and 3) age being omitted from risk scores. Machine learning algorithms avoid these pitfalls and can be used to construct less biased categories. Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Subscription at source 4/4/2025 Research article Two causes of concern closed against Nottinghamshire Police Two causes of concern against Nottinghamshire Police have been closed after HMICFRS found the force had addressed issues around leadership and management, and preventing and deterring crime. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 4/4/2025 News Hertfordshire launches new live chat service with auto-translate function The new live chat service for routine, non-emergency enquiries, has been launched on Hertfordshire Constabulary's website this week, and is helping provide answers to the public's most commonly asked questions. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 4/4/2025 News ‘More work to do’ at police force despite progress Nottinghamshire Police has made progress since concerns were raised, a watchdog says, but the force remains under "enhanced monitoring" with "more work still to do". BBC 4/4/2025 News Former police officer faces harassment charge A former Devon and Cornwall Police firearms response officer has appeared in court charged with harassment without violence. BBC 4/4/2025 News «235236237238239240241242243Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
