Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100904 total results. Showing results 51961 to 51980 «259525962597259825992600260126022603Next ›Last » Plymouth shooting: Starmer asks why gunman had licence The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the man who killed five people in Plymouth, before turning the gun on himself, was given back his gun permit. BBC 14/8/2021 News Hundreds of police to swarm NSW to make people ‘stay at home’ AUSTRALIA: Hundreds of police will flood NSW as a massive new operation is launched to ensure compliance of the state's tough COVID-19 restrictions. 9 News (Australia) 14/8/2021 News Have You Considered the Opposite? A Debiasing Strategy For Judgment in Criminal Investigation Fundamental challenges in human decision-making pose a serious threat to fair evidence evaluation, verdicts in court proceedings, and the administration of justice. Drawing on cognitive psychology, we examined whether a consider-the-opposite approach can assist police officers with positive guidance on how to implement crucial legal thresholds such as the presumption of innocence. In an experiment with sworn police officers (N = 100), we compared a consider-the-opposite condition and a control condition (with no further instructions) and measured the formulated alternative hypotheses. The results show a promising debiasing effect of the consider-the-opposite approach which may strengthen fundamental principles of criminal law. Police Journal - Registration at source 14/8/2021 Research article ‘I am a child of the dawn raids’ NEW ZEALAND: For Gisborne woman Malia Patea-Taylor, the Prime Minister's apology this month for the dawn raids in the 1970s brought up mixed emotions. Gisborne Herald (New Zealand) 14/8/2021 Feature, Opinion Manawatū police crack down on dangerous driving NEW ZEALAND: Manawatū Police wrote out 68 tickets after stopping about 700 vehicles on Wednesday in a crack down on unsafe driving. [VIDEO] Stuff (New Zealand) 14/8/2021 News Nipawin sets date for Citizens on Patrol presentation CANADA: Sgt. Rob Cozine, the provincial RCMP police co-ordinator for the Citizens on Patrol Program (COPP), will be travelling to Nipawin, Sask., to deliver a presentation regarding the forming of a COPP in Nipawin. Blue Line (Canada) 14/8/2021 News Ten people facing charges in human trafficking case in southern Alberta CANADA: A physician is among 10 people charged in a human trafficking investigation in southern Alberta. Blue Line (Canada) 14/8/2021 News Man to appear in court following €50k cannabis seizure REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The 27-year-old was charged in relation to drug trafficking offences Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 14/8/2021 News Austerity, Path Dependency and the (re)configuration of Policing As a standard operating backdrop in the United Kingdom, for more than a decade austerity has become an increasingly dominant logic as to how policing can be delivered and (re)configured to do ‘more with less’. Yet beyond simple rationalisation of public policing in line with market principles, a more complex and long-standing trajectory underpins relations between the police and commercial ‘others’ set within this climate. With austerity as a guiding ‘code’, it has accelerated rather than punctuated the evolution of public policing dispersal. Using path dependency theory, the paper argues that change across both law and policy via different forms of critical juncture has embedded commercial principles, while simultaneously reconfiguring the symbolic (and operational) status of the police and their relationship with the public. In turn, the paper highlights that such pluralisation, in a genealogical sense, has tilted police authority away from central state control to a more dispersed and commercial model – but on a long-term trajectory which long precedes austerity as part of path-dependent change. Policing and Society - Registration at source 14/8/2021 Research article Social Capital Transformation and Social Control: What Can We Learn From the Changing Style in Communication Between Religious Communities and the Police During Covid-19 Close-knit religious groups have a long history of relying on brokers to facilitate the connection with the state. Police agencies also often rely on brokers to provide a reliable channel of communication with the community, assist in maintaining public order, and increase police legitimacy. COVID-19 provides an invaluable opportunity for real-time examination of brokering style as well as changes in brokering paradigms between the police and a highly religious community (Haredim in Israel) during times of crisis, focusing on law enforcement and public health (LEPH). Using the framework of social capital and brokerage, this study identifies three types of brokers: Gatekeepers (Classic/Diasporic); Liaisons (Good Samaritans); and Representatives (Professionals). Under the conditions of a pandemic, the latter strengthened their influence at the expense of the first two types, because they were perceived as more reliable and having higher integrity. This study suggests that social capital is dynamic and may transform under certain circumstances, and that religious constraints may leverage social capital’s adverse effects under the pressure of crisis. Policing and Society - Registration at source 14/8/2021 Research article Assessing the Effects of A Transformational Leadership Training Programme Within the Catalan Police Force Research shows that transformational leadership trainings can be beneficial even in highly hierarchical organizations. However, little is known about their enduring effects on such organizations when operating under social and political pressure. This study aims to evaluate a 3-month transformational leadership training programme in the Catalan police force, a programme that was designed and implemented in a period of extreme social and political upheaval. This study follows a quasi-experimental single group pre–post design, with three non-equivalent dependent variables as proxy counterfactuals. The training was delivered to police inspectors (N = 30). Leader assessments from subordinates (N = 129) were collected through the MLQ-5X questionnaire before the training (pre-test) and one year after the training (post-test). The quantitative analysis revealed that the training had a positive impact on four transformational leadership dimensions and in all leadership performance indicators. Some counter-theoretical results are discussed in the light of the social and political context of the study. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 14/8/2021 Research article Varying Perceptions of Police Accountability in the USA: A Reply to McDaniel, de Angelis, Rosenthal, and Lersch I would like to thank the editors for their invitation to respond to the reviews of my article, ‘Police Accountability in the USA: Gaining Traction or Spinning Wheels?’ provided by Kim Lersch, John McDaniel, Joseph De Angelis, and Richard Rosenthal. I would also like to thank each scholar for reviewing the article and providing thoughtful feedback and questions based on their assessments. There was both agreement and disagreement with my interpretation of the current state of police accountability in the USA. A lack of consensus is good because it challenges us to think about issues on a deeper level and from a variety of perspectives. Peer review and public debate play an important role in the scientific process. I appreciate the opportunity to highlight the insightful comments and questions posed by each of the reviewers, and to clarify my position on a few issues. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 14/8/2021 Research article Evidence-based policing: The role of ethnicity in criminal behaviour Crime prevention programmes in many countries often adopt a blanket approach to communities, with little regard to race or culture; ahead of next week’s Australia and New Zealand Society of Evidence-Based Policing Conference, researchers Dr Kabir Dasgupta, Dr André Diegmann, Professor Tom Kirchmaier and Dr Alexander Plum discuss their latest study which highlights the role of ethnicity in the criminal behaviour of young fathers, and suggests that a ‘one-size-fits-all’ policy response to crime reduction is likely to fail. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 14/8/2021 Analysis, Feature Rangers police ‘had no idea how to tackle finance crime’ Police resorted to “thuggish, Life on Mars” tactics during the ill-fated investigation into the takeover of Rangers FC because they were poorly equipped to tackle the complexities of financial crime, it has been claimed. The Times - Subscription at source 14/8/2021 News The Times view on the Plymouth shooting: Victims of Violence Stringent controls on firearms and hateful incitement may need tightening further The Times - Subscription at source 14/8/2021 Feature, Opinion Visit every burglary victim, ministers tell police forces Ministers want an officer sent to the scene of every burglary to boost public confidence in the police. The Times - Subscription at source 14/8/2021 News Thames Valley police spent £14.4m on software it abandoned A police force spent £14.4 million to develop software for HR and financial staff and then decided not to use it. The Times - Subscription at source 14/8/2021 News Plymouth shooting: Inquiry into how Jake Davison kept his gun licence The police watchdog will review how Jake Davison was granted a gun licence despite apparently having extensive mental health problems. The Times - Subscription at source 14/8/2021 News Plymouth shooting: Police investigated over gunman’s licence The police watchdog is investigating why the man who shot dead five people in Plymouth on Thursday had been given back his confiscated gun and permit. The Times - Subscription at source 14/8/2021 News The threat of appearing racist: Stereotype threat and support for coercion among Australian police officers AUSTRALIA: Recent research in the United States (U.S.) has argued that the threat of confirming the ‘racist cop’ stereotype may paradoxically increase the propensity for coercive policing by depressing officers’ self-legitimacy. 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