Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100982 total results. Showing results 48021 to 48040 «239823992400240124022403240424052406Next ›Last » Exploring Public Trust in Policing At A Community in Ghana Public trust in community policing plays a major role in enhancing police effort in securing peace, public safety, and crime combat. Fractured relationship between a community and the police breeds corruption and social disorderliness. This study used qualitative case study to explore public trust in community policing at a peri-urban community in Ghana using 120 landlords as respondents. The researcher used interview, triangulated with focus group and direct observation, to collect data from the subjects who freely consented to become participants of the study. The author of this paper ensured reliability of the outcome of the study using member-checking, bracketing, and rigor. A qualitative software, NVivo, aided the analysis of the data which generated three main themes. The outcome of the study revealed that lack of public trust in the community policing resulted from fear of reprisals from criminals reported to the police, poor visibility of police officers, and lack of confidence due to perceived poor performance of the police. Security Journal - Registration at source 9/1/2022 Research article Crime Registration and Distress Calls During Covid-19: Two Sides of the Coin This paper inspects changes in crime trends brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic in Tamil Nadu, India. Using Bayesian structural time-series models, the authors study the changes in two metrics of criminal activity – crime registration and distress calls. In addition to absolute changes, the authors analyse the relative changes in one metric with respect to the other during two stay-at-home orders across six categories of crimes: property offences; offences against the human body; cases of missing persons and unidentified dead bodies; vehicle- and traffic-related offences; crimes against women, children and elders; and emerging crimes. While there was an overall decrease in most types of crime, results show that each category was impacted by restrictions in human mobility in different ways; emerging crimes, in particular, increased significantly during both periods. The crime and call trends exhibited a synchronous pattern with respect to a majority of offences except in the category of crimes against women and missing persons, where a contrary trend of decreasing crime registrations and increasing distress calls was noticed during the partial lockdown period. Policing and Society - Registration at source 9/1/2022 Research article A Crisis of Legitimacy?: the Importance of Procedural Justice in Frontline Private Security Provision The private security industry has expanded rapidly in recent decades. Yet the sector has been plagued by suggestions that its personnel lack the professionalism, skills, effectiveness and legitimacy to perform many of the tasks they are employed to do. This raises questions of how the sector has or should attempt to enhance their perceived legitimacy. The current study tests whether citizens’ perceptions about procedural justice might be associated with legitimacy judgements in the private security sector. Specifically, it explores whether citizens focus more on procedural justice concerns or effectiveness concerns when forming judgements about the legitimacy of frontline private security practitioners. Using survey data from 347 Australian citizens, the findings show that procedural justice concerns are most strongly associated with citizens’ legitimacy evaluations; concerns about effectiveness seem to be less important. Further inspection of the data reveals that the ‘neutrality’ and ‘trustworthiness’ sub-components of procedural justice are what matters to Australian citizens. The implications of these findings for scholarship and practice in the private security sector are discussed. Policing and Society - Registration at source 9/1/2022 Research article Missing teenager located after geo-targeting alert issued – Canley Heights AUSTRALIA: A teenager missing from Canley Heights has been located safe and well after police issued an SMS geo-targeting alert. New South Wales Police Force 9/1/2022 News A proud career on the force AUSTRALIA: During his career with Victoria Police, Eric Sutton investigated hundreds of crimes from petty larceny to murder. Star Weekly (Australia) 9/1/2022 Feature, Interview Injured NSW Police costs more than doubled in three years to $381m AUSTRALIA: The annual cost of compensating injured NSW police has more than doubled in three years to $381 million as the majority of officers who left the force in 2021 were deemed ‘medically unfit’ to continue their careers. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 9/1/2022 News Edmonton peace officer unions blame police, city for ‘crime wave’ on city transit; EPS refutes ‘baseless’ claim CANADA: "The city has been warned that there were problems coming related to this for a long time. And here we are facing those kind of problems" Edmonton Journal (Canada) 9/1/2022 News Security plan Armed garda drivers could be assigned to every Cabinet minister after security review REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Armed garda drivers could soon be assigned to every Cabinet minister following security advice from An Garda Siochana, the Irish Sun can reveal. The Irish Sun (Republic of Ireland) 9/1/2022 News StreetSafe campaign praised by Wrexham MP Wrexham's Member of Parliament has praised a North Wales Police project which will help enhance night-time safety for communities in the area. The Leader 9/1/2022 News Youth leaders call for police help in bid to curb spiralling violence Last month was a tough one for the Small Heath community as a stream of youth violence plagued the streets. Birmingham Live 9/1/2022 News Europeans deprived of UK immigration status due to crimes they did not commit Innocent European nationals are being deprived of British immigration status because of crimes they did not commit due to out-of-date Home Office records, The Independent can reveal. The Independent 9/1/2022 News ‘I was West London’s first Asian police officer and was spat at, set up and sent hate mail’ For a man who's been through about as much abuse as anyone could take in their lifetime, Gurpal Virdi is remarkably optimistic. My London 9/1/2022 Feature, Opinion Police car chase leads to three arrests in large drugs haul A tactical police pursuit of a cloned car involving three patrol cars and a police helicopter has led to three males arrested as officers recovered a substantial amount of Class A and Class B drugs. Manchester Evening News 9/1/2022 News Evidence-based policing in Australia and New Zealand Empowering police to drive the reform agenda AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: This chapter examines the past, present, and future reform agenda in Australia and New Zealand around evidence-based policing (EBP). Academic.edu 8/1/2022 Analysis, Feature Use of controversial surveillance technology demonstrates the need to limit police power CANADA: Last month, CBC released a report divulging new details about the Toronto Police Service's use of Clearview AI's controversial surveillance technology. The findings confirmed that Toronto police had employed facial recognition software to identify both suspects and victims in several dozen police investigations. CBC News (Canada) 8/1/2022 Feature, Opinion Leading the way to better mental health CANADA: At the end of 2020, the office of the Governor General experienced a crisis of leadership. Allegations that Canada’s Governor General, Julie Payette, had transformed the office’s work environment from “one of the most collegial and enjoyable work environments” into “a house of horrors”, led to an external review and, ultimately, Payette’s resignation. Blue Line (Canada) 8/1/2022 Feature Dublin TD calling for recruitment of 800 new Gardai to make streets safer REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A Dublin TD is calling for the recruitment of 800 new Gardaí and 400 new civilian staff to result in a dramatic increase in on the beat policing. Dublin Live (Republic of Ireland) 8/1/2022 News Funding sought for upgrade works at garda station in Limerick village REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The head of the Limerick garda division says efforts are continuing to secure funding for the upgrade and refurbishment of Castleconnell garda station. Limerick Live (Republic of Ireland) 8/1/2022 News The American Racial Divide in Fear of the Police The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police. Understanding police-related fear is important because it may impact civilians’ health, daily lives, and policy attitudes. To examine the prevalence, sources, and consequences of both personal and altruistic fear of the police, we surveyed a nationwide sample (N = 1,150), which included comparable numbers of Black (N = 517) and White (N = 492) respondents. Most White respondents felt safe, but most Black respondents lived in fear of the police killing them and hurting their family members. Approximately half of Black respondents preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with officers. The racial divide in fear was mediated by past experiences with police mistreatment. In turn, fear mediated the effects of race and past mistreatment on support for defunding the police and intentions to have “the talk” with family youths about the need to distrust and avoid officers. The deep American racial divide in police-related fear represents a racially disparate health crisis and a primary obstacle to law enforcement’s capacity to serve all communities equitably. Criminology 8/1/2022 Research article Drug lines into Norwich and Norfolk halved in 2021 after police crackdown More than half the drug lines into Norwich and Norfolk have been stamped out by officers in the past 12 months, a police boss has revealed. 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