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Watchdog asks Durham police to investigate Dominic Cummings Force to establish facts about PM’s chief aide’s trip to north-east England during lockdown The Guardian	25/5/2020 News
SEBP 2020 Virtual Conference: Gangs, Drugs & Knife Crime in London Professor Kirchmaier's talk covers the following: In London, Knife Crime with injury has now been falling for over two years, and is back at pre-crisis levels. We show that gangs are driving the knife crime problem, and hypothesise that technological changes (consumers of drugs buy them online) are in part behind this rise in knife crime. Gangs form in areas with higher levels of deprivation, higher % of lone parents, higher levels of social housing. Poverty is persistent, major re-distributive policies have impacted the evolution of cities (and the criminal activities that take place in them). Gangs have a positive effect on knife crime. We estimate that an additional gang in an area increases knife crime between 15% and 35%. The issue is multi-faceted and the current rising trend is likely the result of changes in technology (affecting drug markets), and a lasting effect of austerity. [VIDEO] Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP)	25/5/2020 Analysis, Feature
SEBP 2020 Virtual Conference: Trends in Homicide & our Response Nick Morgan heads up the Serious Violence Analysis Team in the Home Office and was the lead analyst on the Serious Violence Strategy. He has produced several Home Office research reports on crime trends which are published on the government’s website. These have been presented at several conferences including the Stockholm Criminology Symposium and the British Society of Criminology conference. He has also collaborated with academics on papers in published journals, including the Journal of Criminal Justice and Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. In his talk, Nick explores the reasons why we have seen such sharp swings in homicide rates in England and Wales over the last 40 years and how we can start to think about devising an evidence-based plan to consistently reduce homicide. [VIDEO] Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP)	25/5/2020 Analysis, Feature
SEBP 2020 Virtual Conference: Data as an Asset in the Fight Against Knife Crime Professor Bannister's talk - main points: The extent of, and longer-term trends in, knife crime. The (changing) nature of knife crime. Knife crime hotspots cluster on the town and city centre locations in GM, though they vary by offence type. Reflecting what is well known nationally, knife crime offenders in GM are predominantly male and young, with the 15-19 years old age group accounting for 25% of all known offenders in 2018. Significantly, this represents a 5% increase on 2015 – knife crime offenders are getting younger! Vulnerabilities differ by offence type. For serious violence, for example, alcohol misuse can be identified in 37% of cases, mental ill health in 3% of cases and both in 4% of cases. The research demonstrates the potential and limitations of automated knife crime counting procedures. It is possible to derive a more nuanced picture of knife crime from data routinely captured by the police – the where, when and whom. [VIDEO] Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP)	25/5/2020 Analysis, Feature
SEBP 2020 Virtual Conference: Guns, Knives and Evidence Based Policing Watch Alex Murray's welcome video to the 2020 SEBP conference (above). Alex talks about the results some forces had using EBP, how the withdrawal of policing caused a 5-fold increase in homicides in Brazil, how response policing increases detections, and how he believes we should approach violence. Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP)	25/5/2020 Feature
RCMP facing ‘systemic sustainability challenges’ due to provincial policing role CANADA: OTTAWA — The RCMP’s costly contract policing obligations across Canada are draining resources from the force’s federal duties in areas such as organized crime and national security, an internal government memo warns. Blue Line (Canada)	25/5/2020 News
Students in Poland endure hours of brutal police interrogation for simply complaining about a homophobic teacher Police in Poland have interrogated university students after they filed an official complaint against a homophobic, anti-abortion, anti-LGBT+ professor. Pink News	25/5/2020 News
Police officer spent two years suspended after false allegations by schoolboy who said he punched him in face PC Paul Evans spent two years clearing his name Wales Online	25/5/2020 News
Lockdown breacher’s epic rant to police as she ‘didn’t realise Wales wasn’t in England’ A mum, believed to be from the West Midlands, called Welsh people "b*****" when she uploaded the clip of her confrontation with the authorities on Gwynedd beach on Wednesday Mirror**	25/5/2020 News
UK should lead opposition to Hong Kong security law, says Patten The former Hong Kong governor has accused Beijing of breaching a 1997 agreement to safeguard the city's way of life The Telegraph - Subscription at source	25/5/2020 News
On the Perception and Use of Information from Social Media in Investigative Police Work: Findings from a Scandinavian Study The purpose of this article is to report from a qualitative Scandinavian study with the aim of shedding some light on how investigators in the Scandinavian police services perceive the use of information from social media in investigative police work. Based on 12 group interviews and 49 informants from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish police services, we present three overarching themes mirroring the general perception amongst the interviewed investigators that: (1) information from social media is valuable in almost all types of crime investigation; (2) the use of social media information is fraught with technical pitfalls resulting in a general fear of making mistakes; (3) the legal frameworks governing digital investigative action are vague, leading to a feeling amongst the investigators of working in a grey zone. Overall, the informants express the view that this seemingly unregulated part of investigative work requires a major overhaul. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source	25/5/2020 Research article
Cummings row: Durham Police ‘asked to establish facts’ by commissioner The acting police and crime commissioner for Durham has told BBC Radio 5 Live that he has asked the force’s chief constable to "establish the facts" about government aide Dominic Cummings’ time in the area. BBC	25/5/2020 News
The Trouble With Squads: Accounting For Corruption in Australia’s Specialist Policing Units The specialist squad is a common aspect of modern intelligence-led policing. Officers seconded to such units learn from the institutional knowledge and experience in a certain area of enforcement, allowing them to develop an expertise that enables proactive policing. While the utility of specialist squads is clear, the vulnerability of officers attached to them to become involved in corruption is also high. Corruption research argues that officers in squads are at risk of engaging in misconduct for a variety of reasons, such as the low visibility of their work and the necessity of building relationships with criminal actors. The history of police corruption in Australia supports this theory, with a range of examples of corruption in specialist squads to be found across the country. From an historical criminology perspective, this article explores the corruption in Australia’s specialist squads to discuss why risk factors were not addressed despite being consistently identified in the past. It also looks at attempts by police administrators and governments to deal with corruption in specialist squads, evaluating the efficiency of these strategies with a view to informing future anticorruption measures. Criminal Justice Studies - Registration at source	25/5/2020 Research article
Man charged over drugs and money laundering after cocaine and £200,000 find A man has been charged after an investigations by the Organised Crime Partnership – the joint National Crime Agency and Metropolitan Police fight against serious organised crime. National Crime Agency (NCA)	25/5/2020 News
Police work with government and public health on border restrictions The Home Secretary has confirmed new border restrictions in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC)	25/5/2020 News
Durham police to be asked to investigate Dominic Cummings Force to establish facts about PM’s chief aide’s trip to north-east England during lockdown The Guardian	25/5/2020 News
Cycling without a helmet in these suburbs the ‘quickest route to police search’ AUSTRALIA: NSW Police have been accused of using bike fines as a "hidden justice system" to enable searches of poor and vulnerable people, with new data obtained under freedom of information laws showing penalties are soaring in some suburbs while others have none. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)	25/5/2020 News
Hong Kong security law ‘needed to tackle terrorism Hong Kong needs a controversial new security law to tackle "growing terrorism", the territory's security chief has said. BBC	25/5/2020 News
Despite risks, we’re not too fussed about facial recognition AUSTRALIA: Most Australians are comfortable with the rise of facial recognition software despite concerns about the risks, according to the first national survey on community attitudes to the technology. As the federal government works towards the implementation of a facial recognition database – and police and schools increasingly embrace the technology – new research by Monash University has found that many people accept it, particularly if it's used for law enforcement. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)	25/5/2020 News
Dominic Cummings reported to police as ex-chief constable accuses him of risking lives Mike Barton accused Mr Cummings of "selfishly" ignoring vital safety advice in driving almost 260 miles North when his wife was showing signs of infection Mirror	25/5/2020 News

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