Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115944 total results. Showing results 50801 to 50820 «253725382539254025412542254325442545Next ›Last » Home Office admits police funding system flawed after leafy Surrey given bigger increase than crime-hit West Midlands The Home Office has conceded the way it funds police forces across the UK is flawed after we revealed leafy, low-crime areas like Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire were to be given bigger cash boosts than West Midlands Police (WMP) next year. The region's force will get the fifth lowest funding increase, despite serving more than two million people and having one of the highest crime rates. Birmingham Live 18/12/2022 News Police Scotland face staffing crisis as 1,000 officers quit in just 10 months Police Scotland faces a staffing crisis after 1000 frontline officers quit over 10-month period this year. Police leaders have blamed the mass exodus on low morale caused by growing workloads and lack of job satisfaction. Opposition politicians have warned public safety will be at risk. Daily Record 18/12/2022 News Record numbers of Scots told of partners’ violent pasts under police scheme A record number of people are being told they are at risk from violent partners in a new relationship. The amount of warnings given by police has more than quadrupled in the last five years, according to shock new figures obtained by the Sunday Mail. Officers are acting under the Disclosure Scheme for Domestic Abuse in Scotland legislation, which gives people the right to know if their new partner has an abusive past. It also gives police the power to tell someone if they are at risk. A total of 640 people were told by police they were in danger in 2018. But last year that number rose to 2748. Daily Record 18/12/2022 News Law to curb Just Stop Oil protests ‘a sledgehammer to crack a nut’, say ex-police chiefs Legislation going through Parliament would need officers to monitor people 24/7, overstretching resources, ministers warned The Telegraph 17/12/2022 News First-time drug users will not be prosecuted under police chiefs’ plan New guidance being drawn up aims to treat the issue of illegal substance taking as a public health problem The Telegraph 17/12/2022 News Senior police officers call for tougher gun reforms after Queensland shooting AUSTRALIA: Two of the nation's most senior police officers are calling for tougher gun reforms, as heartbreaking tributes are held to remember the officers lost in the Queensland shooting. 9 News (Australia) 17/12/2022 News, Video We went on a police raid as force cracks down on organised crime in Teesside The term 'organised crime group', or OCG, may be a phrase some have only heard on an episode of Line of Duty. Gazette Live 17/12/2022 News, Video 97% of coercive control offences recorded by police in England & Wales go unpunished, new analysis shows One hundred incidents of coercive control are recorded by police every day, but 97 per cent of sick abusers get away with it, new analysis by Labour shows. The Scottish Sun 17/12/2022 News Burglaries not reported because ‘ Dorset Police will do nothing’ Some Dorset residents are being put off reporting thefts and burglaries to the county’s police force – because they believe nothing will be done about it. Dorset Echo 17/12/2022 News 4 members of major drugs gang convicted following Lancs police raid Lancashire police helped to snare four members of an organised crime group after seizing a chemical capable of producing £1.1million worth of amphetamine. Lancashire Telegraph 17/12/2022 News Teesside charity’s ‘super-complaint’ leads to critical watchdog report on national police failings A Teesside domestic and sexual violence charity has called for "immediate, urgent and radical change" to police forces in dealing with ethnic minority victims of sexual abuse. Gazette Live 17/12/2022 News UK police about to accelerate digital fingerprint matching with hopes to prevent crime A new system from the Police Digital Service is set to speed up the submission of fingerprints gathered at crime scenes allowing cloud-based biometric matches in hours not days against a database of 8.4 million records. BiometricUpdate.com 17/12/2022 News Police shooter Nathaniel Train breached Queensland border in a car carrying weapons months after school resignation AUSTRALIA: A camouflage-clad Nathaniel Train, driving a black 4WD carrying loaded guns and military knives, broke through the NSW border gate into Queensland in December last year. ABC News (Australia) 17/12/2022 News Police expand retail crime-prevention programme NEW ZEALAND: Police say work has begun to include small retailers who have been the victim of aggravated robbery in the past year as part of their expanded retail crime-prevention programme from January next year. Times Online (New Zealand) 17/12/2022 News Toronto police homicide clearance rate highest seen in 20 years CANADA: The head of the Toronto police homicide squad says the clearance rates for homicides in 2022 is the highest the city has seen in the last 20 years. Global News (Canada) 17/12/2022 News, Video Saskatoon police want to expand diversion program to keep non-violent offenders out of courts CANADA: Saskatoon police want to keep more people who commit minor, non-violent offences out of the criminal justice system. CBC News (Canada) 17/12/2022 News Defence Forces ramps up covert surveillance of threats to State REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Defence Forces is playing a greater role in the covert surveillance of those suspected of posing a threat to the security of the State. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 17/12/2022 News Drugs in ‘every nook, cranny and parish’ in Kerry, policing committee told REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Joint Policing Committee heard calls for a joint operation between schools and gardaí, along the lines of road safety campaigns, to combat the rise in drugs. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 17/12/2022 News GRA officer claims An Garda Síochána’s new operations base is ‘not fit for purpose’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A Garda union officer working out of the force’s new operations base at Military Road in Dublin has criticised the building as being “not fit for purpose”. Ciaran O’Neill, the Garda Representative Association’s delegate for the old command centre on Harcourt Square, said the the new build, while “impressive”, is in a number of practical ways “not suitable for policing”. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 17/12/2022 News Police emails urge ‘serious discussion’ about future of Panda Game CANADA: The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) raised the need for a "serious discussion" about the Panda Game's future in the aftermath of a second-straight year of rowdy street parties, according to emails obtained by CBC through an access to information request. Deputy Chief Steve Bell, then interim chief of the OPS, voiced his concerns in an email sent to the mayor, city councillors and several high-ranking city officials shortly after midnight on Sunday, Oct. 2, the day after this year's game between the Carleton Ravens and the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees. 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