Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 114987 total results. Showing results 4941 to 4960 «244245246247248249250251252Next ›Last » Home Office bails out ‘bankrupt’ police force for first time over £65million black hole The Home Office has had to rescue a police force from going bankrupt for the first time over a £65million black hole in finances. South Yorkshire Police has become the first force in the UK to issue a ‘114 notice’ asking the Government to step in to help. It blamed a major ‘accounting error’ which went unnoticed for five years, plunging the force £65million in the red and teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Daily Mail 10/1/2026 News Trainee police officers used on live operations in ‘national first’ The training officers, who are part of Wiltshire Police force, were called upon to join the force's live Project Vigilant operation. It saw new recruits put stop and search skills into practice in real time, in an effort to crack down on sexual predatory behaviour on Wiltshire town streets. The operation marks the first time nationally that officers who are still in training have ever been deployed during a live operation. Swindon Advertiser 10/1/2026 News Huge blow for UK county police force as 50 PCSOs to be axed In June 2024 Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper vowed to bring in 13,000 new neighbourhood cops and PCSOs - now her government are 'slashing police budgets'. Express 10/1/2026 News Chequered career of police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban After West Midlands police banned supporters of the Israeli football team from a match against Aston Villa, Craig Guildford’s past has been scrutinised The Times - Subscription at source 10/1/2026 News New £600m City of London Police headquarters to open in 2027 State-of-the-art Salisbury Square - a complex off Fleet Street - is nicknamed the Justice Quarter. A £600 million headquarters for City of London Police will open next year, it has been announced. Salisbury Square is nicknamed the “Justice Quarter” because it will also house 18 courtrooms dedicated to economic and cybercrime cases. The flagship office complex - under construction off Fleet Street - is part of the UK-wide fightback against fraud which costs Britons £1billion a year. The Standard 10/1/2026 News Constable who ‘harassed’ female colleague loses job A police constable diagnosed with autism has failed in a bid to keep his job after a disciplinary panel ruled he had harassed a younger woman officer. BBC 10/1/2026 News Drug use in prisons is ‘too high’ ministers acknowledge as Justice Committee warns of ‘dangerous culture of acceptance’ Ministers recognise that drug use in prisons is “too high” and share the Justice Committee’s concern about the “risks this poses, both to safety and to efforts to reduce reoffending”, the Government has acknowledged. Police Professional 9/1/2026 News Independent retailers call for ‘fit for purpose’ CCTV to stem runaway shop crime The Federation of Independent Retailers (the Fed) is calling on the next Scottish government to provide financial backing for up-to-date CCTV. Police Professional 9/1/2026 News Review looks to shape the future of police leadership The police leadership commission is calling on anyone interested in police leadership to share their views and opinions. Police Professional 9/1/2026 News Women should consider ‘leaving X’ unless abuse is tackled, says Victims’ Commissioner The new Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales says women should consider leaving X unless action is taken to prevent the normalisation of image-based sexual abuse, arguing it “is probably the only way we can voice that this is an issue for women”. Police Professional 9/1/2026 News Tri-force collaboration must improve how they manage firearm licensing to keep the public safe, says HMICFRS Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire Constabulary do not effectively and efficiently manage their firearms and explosive licensing arrangements to keep the public safe, the police inspectorate has said. Police Professional 9/1/2026 News Robert Jenrick: The police are losing control of the streets to Islamists The West Midlands Police scandal matters. It’s about more than a football match The Telegraph - Subscription at source 9/1/2026 Feature, Opinion AI & Policing: Roundtable Report on the Governance & Use of Artificial Intelligence by Police in Canada CANADA: Few technological innovations have entered policing with such sweeping promise—or such capacity to misfire—as artificial intelligence (AI). The UBC AI & Criminal Justice Initiative, led by Prof. Benjamin Perrin, launched its project on AI and policing in 2025 to examine the growing use of AI by police, the benefits and risks these technologies present, and to foster their effective governance. Supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research, three expert roundtables were held in Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver, each structured around a common agenda to move from practice to policy. Forty participants contributed candidly under the Chatham House Rule, offering diverse professional and community perspectives that underscored both the promise and the perils of AI in policing, and the adequacy of governance frameworks that protect human rights, accountability, and public trust. Here are some of the key takeaways from the roundtables UBC Artificial Intelligence & Criminal Justice Initiative (Canada) 9/1/2026 Report Facewatch FRT records twice as many UK retail alerts in 2025 Number jumps more than 100% from 2024 as shoplifters get organized. Facial recognition technology is catching more repeat offenders in UK shops. A press release from London biometrics firm Facewatch says its on-premises live facial recognition monitoring sent 516,739 real-time offender alerts to subscribed retailers in 2025, up from 252,943 alerts in 2024, marking an increase of more than 100 per cent year-on-year. BiometricUpdate.com 9/1/2026 News Here Be Dragons: burdens of knowledge and innovation in evidence-based policing Evidence-based policing has reached a critical inflection point. While decades of evaluation studies have clarified which strategies reduce crime, this progress has created a ‘burden of knowledge’ that makes further innovation harder and exposes large areas of policing practice that remain weakly understood. The next stage of evidence-based policing must move beyond cataloging what works toward explaining how and under what conditions policing strategies generate intended and unintended outcomes. Such a model of scholarship would push the field toward a second-generation model of evidence-based policing that integrates implementation science, richer tracking of officer activity through technologies such as body-worn cameras and automated vehicle locators, and more diverse research methodologies. Taken together, these arguments outline a future in which evidence-based policing is sustained not only by experiments and rigorous quasi-experiments but by a wider knowledge infrastructure capable of guiding innovation in complex, resource-constrained environments. Evidence Base 9/1/2026 Research article Operation Kairos: entropy and the temporality of organised policing This paper examines policing’s recurring difficulty in sustaining innovation and organisational learning through the conceptual lens of entropy. Drawing on classical and contemporary theories of change, it argues that operational success in policing is best understood as a temporary concentration of organisational energy that must be renewed continually. Using Operation Kairos, a pseudonymous multi-agency initiative in England and Wales, alongside comparative evidence from Canada, United States, Australia, the Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, the paper shows how early clarity, alignment, and momentum gradually diffuse as initiatives are absorbed into routine practice. Entropy is reframed not as decay but as a theory of temporality: coherence emerges from provisional alignments of people, resources and purpose, and disperses as those conditions weaken. Organisational amnesia, produced through turnover, workforce strain, and shifting priorities, amplifies this cycle. The paper concludes that resilience in policing depends less on preserving successful arrangements than on designing for their continual renewal. Evidence Base 9/1/2026 Research article Measuring recurrent victimization: evaluating operationalization strategies and predictors using the Crime Survey for England and Wales There is little consensus on how recurrent victimization should be operationalized. This study evaluates alternative measurement strategies and identifies predictors of recurrent victimization using a meta-analytic synthesis of analytic approaches applied to the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Results show that defining recurrent victimization using a Top 10% binary threshold and estimating logistic regression models can lead to biased conclusions. In contrast, operationalizations based on experiencing two or more victimization types or incidents perform better when analyzed using bivariate probit models. Count-based measures, particularly total victimization counts across crime types, also perform well when estimated using negative binomial or zero-inflated negative binomial models. Overall, the findings suggest that categorization-based approaches should be theoretically informed and paired with bivariate probit models, while analyses of victimization volume are better suited to count-based frameworks. Across all approaches, mental health conditions consistently emerge as the strongest correlate of recurrent victimization. Evidence Base 9/1/2026 Research article Inspection of Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire Constabulary’s firearms and explosives licensing: accelerated cause of concern In our inspections, if we identify a more serious, critical or systemic shortcoming in a force or service’s practice, policy or performance, we will report it as a cause of concern. A cause of concern will always be accompanied by one or more recommendations. When we identify causes of concern during our inspections, we normally provide details in the subsequent inspection report. In some cases, such as where we discover significant service failures or risks to public safety, we can report our concerns and recommendations earlier. This is called an accelerated cause of concern. We have issued an accelerated cause of concern to Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire Constabulary because the tri-force collaboration doesn’t adequately manage its firearms and explosives licensing arrangements to keep the public safe. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 9/1/2026 Report Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire Constabulary must improve how they manage firearm licensing to keep the public safe Bedfordshire Police, Cambridgeshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire Constabulary don’t effectively and efficiently manage their firearms and explosive licensing arrangements to keep the public safe, the police inspectorate has said. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 9/1/2026 News ‘Speculation was a waste of time: he must wait until there was more evidence’: the importance of an evidence base for criminal justice and criminal justice policy This essay addresses the question as to why speculation and opinion are harmful to criminal justice policy. From there, the essay will speak to the makings of an evidence base, how much evidence is enough to inform, guide, shape, or change policy, and conclude with some of the most promising create, disseminate, and use research to inform public policy makers. Evidence Base 9/1/2026 Research article «244245246247248249250251252Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
