Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104506 total results. Showing results 4841 to 4860 «239240241242243244245246247Next ›Last » Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspect The paper examines debates on police decentralisation in Ukraine since 2014, when Russia first attacked Ukraine and the country began a democratic transition, through February 2022, when the current full-scale invasion began. Although Ukraine’s constitution gives no policing authority to local governments, municipalities have created their own de facto local policing services, ‘municipal guards.’ In Ukraine, unlike nearly all other post-Soviet states, war and democratic transition have brought onto the political agenda debates about policing decentralisation for urban public order, incivilities, and property rights. Previous studies of post-authoritarian police reform have neglected such debates, focusing on criminal law and human rights. We argue that clarifying the role of local authorities in controlling public order is key to the success of police reform and should receive greater political and scholarly attention. Indeed, there is a strong case that ‘democratic policing’ in modern states requires some local control of public order. Policing and Society - Subscription at source 3/4/2025 Research article Harmful or helpful? Trust in the police after a shock: a test of (dual) expectancy disconfirmation theory Can social and economic macro-social shocks significantly affect citizens’ trust in the police? We explore the credibility of dual expectancy disconfirmation theory whereby the trust in the police is the result of the responsibility attributed to the government for a shock combined with the evaluation of police action as helpful vs. harmful during the following crisis. Based on European Social Survey (ESS) data, we compare countries under shock with the rest of the EU states (Greece: economic hardship; France: terrorism; Spain: elite conflict. We show that, after a shock, trust in the police evolves as a result of a combined (dual)assessment of the government and the police by the citizens. Firstly, when a government is clearly responsible for the shock, it takes the blame, which spills over to the police. Conversely, when a government is confronted by a shock outside its decision-making realm, no blame spills over to the police. Secondly, the positive evaluation of the police depends on whether their intervention corresponds to the protective role they have been assigned: they are evaluated positively when they tackle a threat, and negatively when they forcibly prevent citizens from exercising their political rights. Thirdly, differential effects are always observable: segments of society which are exposed to more harm from the police become more reluctant to trust the police. This paper presents a theoretical backing for those studies that have previously dealt with shocks but were mostly based on micro level theories of police-citizens interactions with only limited theoretical attempts to consider the macro-level contex Policing and Society 3/4/2025 Research article Politicians and police in the face of democratic change in Chile and Colombia This article draws on theories of institutional change, to offer a comparative analysis of politician-police relationships during processes of political change by examining Carabineros de Chile and the Colombian National Police. It begins with Chile’s transition to a new democratic regime under President Aylwin in 1990. On the other hand, the Colombian case study begins with the debate that led to the approval of a new constitution in 1991. The authors use the analysis of institutional change by [Mahoney, J., and Thelen, K., Eds. 2009. Explaining institutional change: ambiguity, agency, and power. New York: Cambridge University Press], to argue that institutional change is produced by the interaction between the political context, the characteristics of the target institution and the agents of change. The political context may favour institutional change or, conversely, give rise to coalitions with strong veto power. The Carabineros and the Colombian National Police developed strategies to retain influence over the change processes, determining their depth and scope and often straying from the original political objectives. Both institutions aim to strengthen their bureaucratic veto power over time through two fundamental variables, which researchers call police veto power and the administrative and managerial capacity to propose alternative policies to civilian authorities. The mechanisms police use to respond to change proposals are: institutional blocking; strategic policy substitution; negotiated autonomy; and, adaptive implementation. Policing and Society - Subscription at source 3/4/2025 Research article Police appeal for volunteers to lead cadet units A police force is appealing for volunteers to lead cadet units across a county which, without them, could be at risk of closure. BBC 3/4/2025 News Report on the 2024 New South Wales Drug Summit AUSTRALIA: The NSW Government announced in July 2024 that it would hold a drug summit to bring people together to find ‘new ways forward’ to improve outcomes for people impacted by drugs in NSW. New South Wales Government 3/4/2025 Report NSW Government receives Drug Summit report AUSTRALIA: ​The NSW Government has today received the Drug Summit report from Co-Chairs Hon. Carmel Tebbutt and John Brogden AM. The Drug Summit delivered on an election commitment from the Minns Labor Government to bring together those with lived and living experience, frontline workers and experts in addiction and illicit drug use. The summit listened to over 400 participants as well as 3,600 written submissions, over four days across metropolitan Sydney, Griffith and Lismore. New South Wales Government 3/4/2025 News Police should back off drug users, says report AUSTRALIA: The Drug Summit Report published on Thursday recommends having the sentencing period for adults convicted of possessing or using drugs. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) - Subscription at source 3/4/2025 News National Insurance raid ‘risks forcing police to axe 3,600 officers’ Funding black hole will impact on front-line policing, warn Tories The Telegraph - Subscription at source 3/4/2025 News NSW prosecutors appeal no-jail sentence for Kristian White over manslaughter of 95-year-old Clare Nowland AUSTRALIA: Office of Director of Public Prosecutions calls former police officer’s two-year community corrections order inadequate. The Guardian 3/4/2025 News More than 100 extra police to go to Logan as service struggles with DV jobs AUSTRALIA: More than 100 extra police will be sent to Logan after revelations of a huge number of vacancies as officers continue to struggle with domestic violence jobs. The Courier Mail (Australia) 3/4/2025 News Police wrongly arrested, used force on, bystanders filming incident NEW ZEALAND: Two cousins who were arrested after filming police in the Auckland CBD were unlawfully detained and then subjected to unjustified force in 2022, an inquiry has revealed. 1 News (New Zealand) 3/4/2025 News The vital role of neighbourhood policing and community intelligence in tackling Europol’s SOC threats Europol’s recently published 2025 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) highlighted the evolving trends of SOC on the international stage; former South Wales Police detective Steve Dodd, a subject matter expert on intelligence professionalisation and advocate of the community intelligence-led policing methodology, argues that the SOCTA also reinforces the key role that frontline officers and the Neighbourhood Policing Pathway have to play in tackling that SOC threat. Policing Insight - Registration at source 3/4/2025 Analysis, Feature, Opinion Force launches video call option for domestic abuse victims Gloucestershire Police has introduced Rapid Video Response (RVR), a new option allowing domestic abuse victims to speak with officers via video call. Emergency Services Times 3/4/2025 News Norfolk PCC teams up with charity to offer free bystander training The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk is partnering with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust to drive awareness of street harassment and upskill and empower bystanders across Norfolk to deal with all harassment types. Emergency Services Times 3/4/2025 News Alan Turing Institute calls for AI Crime Taskforce The Alan Turing Institute has urged the Home Office to set up an AI Crime Taskforce to coordinate the national response to AI enabled crime. UKAuthority.com 3/4/2025 News From Constable to Chief: John Giffard’s Journey (Part 1) Former Staffordshire Police Chief Constable John Giffard shares his extensive career in policing, beginning in 1973. He discusses his motivations for joining the police force, his early experiences, and the challenges he faced. John reflects on his ambition to rise through the ranks, ultimately becoming Chief Constable. PolicingTV 3/4/2025 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Nearly 3,000 top-venting blank firers handed in during national gun amnesty Police forces across England and Wales have seen more than 2,900 Turkish manufactured guns handed in as part of a national amnesty which took place during February. Police Professional 2/4/2025 News Mayor secures 935 neighbourhood police officer posts and confirms historic £1.16bn investment in the Metropolitan Police The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a record £1.16bn investment in policing from City Hall. Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) 2/4/2025 News UK’s biggest police force to axe 1,700 officers and staff despite funding boost The Metropolitan Police will cut services including the Royal Parks Police. The Independent 2/4/2025 News Garda defend treatment of Gaza protesters outside Leinster House and deny ‘cavity search’ allegation REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Protesters’ claims about searches by gardaà were raised in Dáil by Richard Boyd Barrett. The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 2/4/2025 News «239240241242243244245246247Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
