Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100904 total results. Showing results 51881 to 51900 «259125922593259425952596259725982599Next ›Last » Police presence beefed up at Queensland-NSW border in ‘last line of defence’ against southern Delta COVID outbreak AUSTRALIA: As the police presence at the border is beefed up, a border town mayor reveals Queensland Health has been giving COVID-19 vaccinations to New South Wales residents living just over the state line. ABC News (Australia) 17/8/2021 News Concern as police resources diverted by increasing mental health call-outs NEW ZEALAND: A North Canterbury father is urging residents to demand more funding from the Government for mental health services over fears such issues are putting too much pressure on police. Stuff (New Zealand) 17/8/2021 News Feilding Police Station reopens after refurbishments NEW ZEALAND: Half a million dollars spent on refurbishing Feilding’s police station is a sign they are investing in the community, residents say. Stuff (New Zealand) 17/8/2021 News Use of police dog during arrest of man on the run justified – IPCA NEW ZEALAND: Police have been cleared for using a dog during the arrest of a high-risk offender on the run in Auckland last May. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 17/8/2021 News PSNI to offer support to children who witness domestic violence The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is launching a pilot programme that will see the force share information with schools where there have been instances of domestic abuse involving a child. This will allow officers to pass on relevant information to the school the child attends so that the right support can be put in place. Police Professional 17/8/2021 News Drug users warned after spate of overdose deaths The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and National Crime Agency (NCA) are leading an investigation into a recent rise in fatal drug overdoses thought to be linked to a batch of heroin mixed with a dangerous synthetic opioid. Police Professional 17/8/2021 News Former Herts chief appointed chair of police pay body A former chief constable of Hertfordshire Constabulary has been appointed interim chair of the Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB) Police Professional 17/8/2021 News 8.8 per cent increase in pay is more evidence to justify increases for police officers Police officers in England and Wales will be ‘fully justified in feeling further betrayed’ by the Government’s recent zero per cent pay offer after new figures revealed a large annual hike in UK average pay of 7.4 per cent. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 17/8/2021 News Policing under the pressure of current events National Chair John Apter reflects on policing under the pressure of current events. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 17/8/2021 News Greater Manchester Police chief scraps ‘tosh’ Citizens’ Contract A so-called Citizens' Contract outlining what people could expect from Greater Manchester Police has been torn up by the force's new chief constable. BBC 17/8/2021 News Plymouth shooting: police focus on ‘incel’ links as shop CCTV tape emerges Jake Davison seen pacing around convenience store for more than five minutes on day before attack The Guardian 17/8/2021 News Police Response to Latina Immigrant Intimate Partner Violence Victims: A Qualitative Analysis While an increasing body of literature has assessed police response to intimate partner violence (IPV), a dearth of this research has examined police decision-making with formal reports of IPV among Latina immigrants. Using a LatCrit theoretical framework, the current study addressed this substantive gap through the systematic methods of the grounded theory approach to assess a sample of 36 police case files drawn from an agency located in one of the fifth most populous and diverse US cities. Results from the current study identified five themes related to shortcomings in police response to Latina immigrant IPV victims. The themes included cultural coercive control, language barriers, victim participation, case clearance efforts, and service provision. Policy implications and avenues for future research are discussed. Journal of Interpersonal Violence - Registration at source 17/8/2021 Research article “Defund the (school) Police”? Bringing Data to Key School-to-Prison Pipeline Claims Nationwide calls to “Defund the Police,” largely attributable to the resurgent Black Lives Matter demonstrations, have motivated derivative calls for public school districts to consider “defunding” (or modifying) school resource officer (“SRO/police”) programs. To be sure, a school’s SRO/police presence—and the size of that presence—may influence the school’s student discipline reporting policies and practices. How schools report student discipline and whether that reporting involves referrals to law enforcement agencies matters, particularly as reports may fuel a growing “school-to-prison pipeline.” The school-to-prison pipeline research literature features two general claims that frame debates about changes in how public schools approach student discipline and the growing number of calls for schools to defund SRO/police programs. One claim is that public schools’ increasingly “legalized” approach toward student discipline increases the likelihood that students will be thrust into the criminal justice system. A second distributional claim is that these adverse consequences disproportionately involve students of color, boys, students from low-income households, and other vulnerable student sub-groups. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology - Registration at source 17/8/2021 Research article Police arrest several people for drug trafficking in Cumberland County CANADA: HALIFAX -- The Cumberland County Integrated Street Crime Enforcement Unit (SCEU) says it has arrested "several people" in relation to drug trafficking investigations in Cumberland County. CTV News (Canada) 17/8/2021 News Amid spike in gun violence, Montreal groups call on government for different approach to problem CANADA: As police in the Montreal area deal with a jump in gun violence linked to street gang clashes, community workers are calling for decision makers to focus on the root of the problem. Blue Line (Canada) 17/8/2021 News ‘A crime’: Police across Canada investigating handful of cases looking at residential schools CANADA: A tally from police across the country shows there are four ongoing criminal investigations and one decade-long probe into complaints involving residential schools. Blue Line (Canada) 17/8/2021 News Making life prisoners wait longer for parole a retrograde step REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Parole Act 2019 came into force last week, placing the Parole Board on a statutory footing for the first time in the history of the State and promising increased transparency in parole processes. [AUDIO] The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 17/8/2021 News Teen girl charged with armed robbery of service station with ‘gun made from duct tape’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A 16-year-old Dublin girl has been charged with carrying out an armed robbery at a service station while brandishing an imitation gun made from duct tape. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 17/8/2021 News €40,000 worth of suspected cannabis herb seized by gardaí in Balbriggan REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A major drugs seizure has taken place in Balbriggan as the result of a Garda operation in the area, local gardaí have confirmed. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 17/8/2021 News Fifteen Minutes Per Day Keeps the Violence Away: A Crossover Randomised Controlled Trial on the Impact of Foot Patrols on Serious Violence in Large Hot Spot Areas Did a 15-min patrol delivery over 1 day reduce serious violent crime in large hot spots (mean size = 2 km × 2 km), without displacing such crimes to nearby areas? We tracked daily official crime reports in a sample of 21 high-crime Bedfordshire (UK) Lower-layer Super Output areas (LSOAs). We measured time spent by two-person police foot patrols in those areas with daily GPS data from handheld devices given to officers working on overtime. We also counted proactively initiated arrests. We used a crossover randomised controlled trial on the 21 “hot spot” LSOAs, each of which was randomly assigned daily to be either in a treatment condition of 15-min of patrol (as one of seven each day) or a control condition of no patrol (as one of 14 each day) for each of 90 days. We used an intention-to-treat framework to analyse the impact of patrols on the outcome measures overall, on consecutive days of assignment to the same condition, and in 100-m ‘buffer’ zones around each hot spot. We found that on treatment days the hot spots had 44% lower Cambridge crime harm index scores from serious violence than on control days, as well as 40% fewer incidents across all public crimes against personal victims. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 17/8/2021 Research article «259125922593259425952596259725982599Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events