Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 96558 total results. Showing results 48941 to 48960 «244424452446244724482449245024512452Next ›Last » Double VPN takedown: NCA takes UK server of criminal network offline An international investigation involving the National Crime Agency has led to the takedown of DoubleVPN – the service used by cyber criminals around the world to mask their location and identities online. National Crime Agency (NCA) 30/6/2021 News Tech giants putting profit ahead of child safety, warns outgoing police chief Chief Constable Simon Bailey will use his final speech as a serving officer to hit out at tech giants like Facebook. The Standard 30/6/2021 News Social media: Norfolk Police chief issues child abuse warning The outgoing Norfolk Chief Constable has urged shareholders to hold social media firms to account to protect children from online abuse. BBC 30/6/2021 News Burglar who fled UK escaped arrest by British and French police in border jurisdiction farce A burglar who raided a pub then fled to a ferry escaped being arrested in a farce over who had jurisdiction. The Scottish Sun 30/6/2021 News Police body cameras may provide the best evidence – but need much better regulation While the potential evidential benefits of police body-worn cameras are increasingly clear, inconsistencies in their use and oversight threaten to limit their positive impact; Griffith University Lecturers Robyn Blewer and Ronald Behlau believe regulation leading to more effective, consistent use, coupled with independent oversight, is the way forward. Policing Insight 30/6/2021 Feature, Opinion Staffing the Force: Police Staff in England and Wales’ Experiences of Working Through A Covid-19 Lockdown This online survey (N = 2365) examined the experiences of (non-sworn/non-warranted) staff serving in police forces in England and Wales during the March to July COVID-19 virus lockdown in the UK. Particular attention was paid to staff working from home, those able to partially work from home and those who remained at work in their usual police location. Home working staff were generally less stressed than those remaining partially or totally at their work location. Public interacting staff were particularly stressed. Regression analyses found that for all staff, irrespective of location, tiredness and finding work more difficult were implicated in increased stress. For those remaining at their place of work homeschooling and lacking preparedness for another lockdown were additional stressors. The importance of feeling valued is discussed. Some recommendations are offered in the light of these findings including the concept of moral injury repair. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 30/6/2021 Research article Exploring Strategic Perspectives on the Special Constabulary This article explores senior and strategic perspectives on the volunteer Special Constabulary in England and Wales, based on 38 interviews with senior police leaders. The strategic context and leadership of Special Constabularies represents an overlooked element of police leadership, given the scale and potential of volunteer officers to impact upon policing delivery and reform. The paper identifies tension between a traditional strategic paradigm that frames bounded expectations of the role of Special Constables, emphasising differences between them and their paid counterparts, and considerations of police reform which prompt different thinking in respect of practice, identity and integration of volunteer officers. Police Journal 30/6/2021 Research article Understanding Moral Injury and Belief Change in the Experiences of Police Online Child Sex Crime Investigators: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Little is known about the psychological and physiological impacts of moral injury within organizational contexts such as Internet Child Abuse Teams (hereafter abbreviated to ICAT), who are repeatedly exposed to trauma through viewing and grading graphic images of children being sexually abused. The aims of the current research were to explore the key features of, and contributing factors to, moral injury and trauma as experienced by Internet Child Abuse Teams, how these manifested and how these factors can be mitigated. Six participants were recruited from ICATs located at two police constabularies. Data were gathered using semi-structured interviews and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings indicated that the moral injury experienced by the participants was predominantly attributable to repeated exposure to traumatising images, with too little decompression time. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 30/6/2021 Research article The Effect of Public Surveillance Cameras on Crime Clearance Rates Much research has examined the crime reduction benefits of public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, suggesting that cameras may not deter enough crime to justify their cost. Another benefit of CCTV though is its utility in investigations and in clearing cases, which has been much less studied. Using the data of public surveillance cameras and case clearances in Dallas, Texas, along with a pre-post-research design, we examine the efficacy that public CCTV cameras increase case clearance rates. We find that cases closer to cameras did have an increased clearance rate after the cameras were installed. But the effects faded quite quickly in space and were mostly limited to thefts. While our estimates here suggest the cameras are likely not cost-effective in terms of increasing clearances, it suggests there is potential to be more targeted in camera placement that might provide better justification for their (limited) use. Journal of Experimental Criminology - Registration at source 30/6/2021 Research article Tidying Up A Few Misconceptions Around Evidence-Based Policing: Reply to Staller and Koerner (2021) In this piece we reply to a commentary from Staller and Koerner on our work entitled, #Defund or #Re-Fund? Re-Examining Bayley’s Blueprint for Police Reform. In short, we agree on the necessity of reflexivity within policing research and the area of evidence-based policing more specifically, but also see this reply as an opportunity to clarify some misconceptions around evidence-based policing and what it means to be “evidence-based.” More specifically, we touch upon the flexibility of evidence-based policing to be implemented in tandem with other reform approaches, the value of experiential knowledge and qualitative methods within evidence-based policing, and the confounding of evidence and evidence-based. We conclude on the point of reflexivity and put out a call for follow-up studies that examine the implications of evaluated police practices. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice - Registration at source 30/6/2021 Research article Calgary police receive more complaints, close more complaint files in 2020 CANADA: More police conduct complaints have come into the professional standards section (PSS) of the Calgary Police Service. But more of those complaints have been resolved this year, as well. Global News (Canada) 30/6/2021 News Police officer assessed by fake psychologist after complaining of sexual harassment CANADA: Const. Kimberly Cadarette was given a copy of what she alleges is a fraudulent report by Ottawa Police Service CBC News (Canada) 30/6/2021 News Publicans and gardaí put in a ‘precarious position’over laws REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: THE majority of publicans are applying for licences to serve alcohol outdoors in order to be compliant with legislation. The Southern Star 30/6/2021 News Purpose-built Garda facility has no space for specialist units REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Two bureaus targeting sex offences and online fraud cannot be housed on Military Road The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 30/6/2021 News Tow truck wars INTERNATIONAL: This policy brief focuses on a small but especially vulnerable type of transportation business that has been prone to infiltration by organized crime groups through violence, intimidation and corruption: the vehicle-towing services industry. [pdf] Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 30/6/2021 Report Operations centre opened at new combined counter terrorism hub Dedicated forensics facility due to open at Empress State building later this year. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 30/6/2021 News Ring fence cash for retail neighbourhood teams, says MPs Chiefs have been urged by MPs to strengthen neighbourhood teams and ring fence funding to protect shop workers. A violent attack happens every five minutes the industry says. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 30/6/2021 News ‘Significant’ progress by Police Scotland in understanding demand on services Police Scotland has made “significant efforts” to develop its understanding of demand on services, according to a new report published today (June 29). Police Professional 30/6/2021 News Man charged with murder of Sgt Matt Ratana A man has been charged with the murder of Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) sergeant Matt Ratana, who was shot dead in September 2020. Police Professional 30/6/2021 News Human Rights policing focus of Advisory Group ‘Added Confidence’ An Independent Advisory Group (IAG), set up to provide additional scrutiny of Police Scotland’s use of coronavirus powers, gave “added confidence” that decisions taken during the pandemic were consistent with human rights and the values of policing by consent, according to researchers. Scottish Police Authority (SPA) 30/6/2021 News «244424452446244724482449245024512452Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
