Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 102441 total results. Showing results 50981 to 51000 «254625472548254925502551255225532554Next ›Last » Body‐worn Cameras, Lawful Police Stops, and NYPD Officer Compliance: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial The federal court settlement of Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al. (2013) mandated that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) implement a series of reforms to address unlawful stop, question, and frisk patterns and practices. Among other changes, the remedial order required the NYPD to implement and evaluate a pilot body-worn camera program to determine whether outfitting officers with the technology led to more lawful and civil police–citizen encounters. A cluster randomized controlled trial involving 40 police precincts and 3,889 NYPD officers was used to evaluate the effects of body-worn cameras on a series of police work activity, civility, and lawfulness outcomes. Relative to control officers, citizen complaints against treatment officers outfitted with body-worn cameras were reduced by 21 percent. Treatment officers, however, also filed nearly 39 percent more stop reports when compared with control officers. Treatment stop reports tended to involve minority subjects, were less likely to involve arrests and summons, and were significantly more likely to be rated as not meeting constitutional justifications for stops, frisks, and searches. These results suggest that body-worn cameras improved NYPD officer compliance with mandates to document all stops and could be used to address unlawful policing through better detection of problematic police–citizen encounters. Criminology - Registration at source 15/11/2021 Research article Police officer conduct complaints up nine per cent CANADA: The report by Clayton Pecknold, B.C.'s Police Complaint Commissioner, indicated there were 583 complaints logged about police officer conduct, compared to 537 in 2019-20. Vancouver Sun (Canada) 15/11/2021 News Police officers’ knowledge, understanding and implementation of the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act in BC, Canada CANADA: In May 2017, the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act ( GSDOA ) was enacted in Canada - amending the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act . For people present at an overdose, the GSDOA offers legal protection from simple drug possession as well as breach of charges related to simple possession including probation, pre- trial release, conditional sentences, and parole. It is unclear if the GSDOA has been fully implemented by police officers. [PDF] International Journal of Drug Policy 15/11/2021 Analysis, Feature ASIRT on the rocks: Faced with an ‘unmanageable’ workload, Alberta’s police watchdog is shedding staff and falling further behind on files CANADA: This past February, the head of Alberta’s police watchdog went before the Edmonton Police Commission to sound an alarm. Edmonton Journal (Canada) 15/11/2021 News The Relative Impact of Different ‘Resistant Behavioural Responses’ on Interrogative Suggestibility in Children: the Powerful Contribution of ‘Direct Explanation’ Replies to Unanswerable Questions The aim of this study was to investigate the different types of resistant behavioural responses to unanswerable questions, their respective individual contribution to the overall variance in resistance efficacy, and their differential protective effect on repeated questioning, interrogative pressure, and delayed suggestibility. The participants were 360 children aged between 7 and 17 years, 180 of whom were suspected victims of sexual abuse and 180 matched peers for age, sex and IQ. All children completed the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale 2. Delayed suggestibility was measured after a 1-week delay. The findings show that ‘don’t know’, ‘direct explanation’, and ‘no’ answers are unrelated response styles that have individual effects on resistance to misleading questions. ‘Direct explanation’ answers are most stable and robust and increase incrementally with age in children, whilst ‘no’ answers decline. The findings suggest that ‘Don’t know’, ‘direct explanation’, and ‘no’ answers are driven by different cognitive and social processes. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling - Registration at source 15/11/2021 Research article Launch of KOPS – the new Garda Wellbeing App REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: We are pleased to announce the launch of An Garda Síochána’s new Wellbeing App, called KOPS. KOPS stands for Keeping Our People Supported. The app has been created specifically for employees of An Garda Síochána. An Garda Síochána 15/11/2021 News Increase in Garda resources needed to tackle anti-social behaviour on trains, TD says REPUBLIC OF REPUBLIC: Sinn Fein's spokesperson on transport, Darren O'Rourke, has said an increase in Garda resources is needed to crack down on antisocial behaviour on trains. Echo Live (Republic of Ireland) 15/11/2021 News Garda develop workaround to obtain mobile data following Dwyer ruling REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí have reverted to using traditional search warrants to obtain mobile phone data in criminal investigations due to the controversy over Ireland’s data-retention regime. The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 15/11/2021 News Concern over PSNI’s role at UVF Belfast Shankill march Policing Board member Dolores Kelly believes the PSNI must be careful over how they are perceived by the public after officers appeared to escort a UVF parade on the Shankill Road. Belfast Telegraph 15/11/2021 News Met PC who was late to court went on blue light run A former Metropolitan Police officer who used blue lights and sirens when he was late to court would have been dismissed had he still been serving. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 15/11/2021 News A Test of a Short PEACE Interview Training Course: Training Efficacy and Individual Differences Using a policing student sample (N = 38) in a quasi-experimental research design, we examined whether a short training course on the PEACE model of investigative interviewing would impact mock interview performance and whether this impact would vary with individual differences. Interview performance was assessed via seven measures: (1) interviewee perception scale, (2) interviewer behavior scale, (3) interview length, (4) question appropriateness, (5) number of details elicited, (6) number of questions, and (7) detail per question. The efficacy of the training course was demonstrated through post-training performance increases in the interviewer behavior scores (d = 0.79), detail per question (d = 8.85), interview length (d = 0.82), witness perception scores (d = 0.45), and number of details (d = 0.47). The Big Five personality scale and Police Interviewing Competencies Inventory (PICI) were used to measure individual differences. The Communicative-Insisting and Humane dimensions of the PICI and the Openness dimension of the Big Five scale predicted training efficacy. The potential implications of these findings for investigatory agencies are discussed. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Subscription at source 15/11/2021 Research article Police and MI5 probe taxi explosion outside hospital on Remembrance Sunday Counter terrorism police are being assisted by the security services in their investigation into the explosion of a taxi at a hospital in Liverpool which killed the passenger and injured the driver on Remembrance Sunday. Police Professional 15/11/2021 News National Police Chiefs’ Council Launch National Week of Action to Tackle Knife Crime Operation Sceptre, a weeklong initiative to tackle knife crime, starts today, Monday 15th November. All 43 forces (England and Wales) and the British Transport Police will take part in the efforts to crack down on knife-enable crime and violence. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 15/11/2021 News Overworked police control room staff’s disbelief as bosses offer desk plants to ‘reduce anxiety levels’ Worker’s disbelief as bosses hand out free plants to over-worked and under-staffed 999 control room staff in a bid to reduce anxiety. Daily Record 15/11/2021 News Police step up efforts to tackle knife crime Op Spectre is a week-long knife amnesty Planet Radio 15/11/2021 News ‘A pattern of fixation and obsession’: How the pandemic exacerbated stalking cases in the UK Following the murder of 23-year-old Gracie Spinks, who was killed by her stalker earlier this year, Laura Hampson asks what’s being done to protect stalking victims in the UK The Independent 15/11/2021 Feature, Opinion Calls for police on Metrolink after ‘significant’ spike in knife crime and attacks Councillors are calling for more police presence on trams Manchester Evening News 15/11/2021 News Europol highlights Covid-driven boom in organised cyber crime as fraud, grooming and malware flourish Pandemic lockdowns and remote working have fuelled a significant growth in cyber crime, according to Europol’s latest Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment, with fraud and grooming – including the distribution of explicit self-generated material – presenting major challenges for investigators; Policing Insight Deputy Editor Sarah Gibbons looks at the key threats highlighted in the report, and what steps policing can take to mitigate them. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 15/11/2021 Feature Calgary Police Commission employee engagement report 2021 CANADA: To provide good governance, the Calgary Police Commission must be in touch with the needs, experiences, concerns, and motivators of CPS employees. [pdf] Calgary Police Commission 15/11/2021 Report Man under police guard flees SA hospital AUSTRALIA: A man in handcuffs under police guard in a South Australian hospital has escaped, leading officers on a 16-hour manhunt across Murray Bridge. [VIDEO] WA Today (Australia) 14/11/2021 News «254625472548254925502551255225532554Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
