Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 114995 total results. Showing results 5201 to 5220 «257258259260261262263264265Next ›Last » Police leadership and legitimacy in the context of a global pandemic This article provides original insight into police legitimacy through the lens of senior police leaders using interview data from 26 police practitioners in leadership positions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring situational contexts affecting their perceptions of self-legitimacy, it highlights competing legitimacy expectations from public audiences and elite powerholders that are exacerbated in prolonged periods of crisis. When faced with seemingly irresolvable tensions threatening their legitimacy, it demonstrates that police leaders promote audience legitimacy over the expectations and demands of elite powerholders. Cultivating their self-legitimacy by reflecting on internal audience stressors and seeking to preserve the public legitimacy of the police, this article highlights the importance of understanding police leader sense-making and self-legitimacy as highly contextual and situational. This raises questions about how police leaders conceptualise public legitimacy and normative expectations of the police role and community relations, suggesting these might be malleable and dynamic across different complex and demanding circumstances. Criminology and Criminal Justice 30/12/2025 Research article Police face ‘ballooning’ volumes of digital evidence and admin, as chiefs also struggle to prioritise amid reform delays A recent report on police performance in England and Wales, published by the Institute for Government, highlights the “ballooning volumes” of digital evidence and more administrative work being undertaken by officers, and the damaging impact on chiefs officers’ ability to set local priorities amid the continuing delays in publishing the plans for police reform, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 30/12/2025 Analysis, Feature Victoria Police numbers lowest since 2019 AUSTRALIA: Victorian Police numbers are the lowest since 2019 with agencies across the country struggling to boost numbers after COVID fatigue. Victoria is currently experiencing a record high crime rate, with criminal offenses up 25 per cent over the past two years. Opposition leader Jess Wilson says, “we simply do not have enough police officers on the beat to man our police stations". Sky News 30/12/2025 News, Video ‘Policing is expensive,’ says OPS chief after banner budget year CANADA: Next year, Ottawa police will get their biggest budget boost in more than a decade, but Chief Eric Stubbs could soon come looking for more. In a year-end interview with CBC News, Stubbs laid out the pressures facing the Ottawa Police Service as he prepares for a long-term costing exercise that will help pin down the price of policing for years to come. CBC News (Canada) 30/12/2025 Feature, Interview, Opinion Police chiefs reflect on ‘worrying’ unrest linked to anti-asylum protests In candid interviews, the most senior officers in the north-east and Highlands and Islands vowed a firm response to any violent or hateful disorder. The Press and Journal 30/12/2025 News Rural crime warning over Norfolk and Suffolk police merger Speculation that a fresh effort will be made to merge Norfolk and Suffolk police forces has prompted an MP to warn such a move could be disastrous for rural parts of the county. Eastern Daily Press 30/12/2025 News Number of officers sacked for misconduct increases The number of police officers in two counties who were sacked or resigned after being investigated for gross misconduct has increased year on year, the BBC found. New figures showed one Suffolk Police officer would have been dismissed for gross misconduct in 2023 had he not already left the force, compared with six in 2024 - an increase of 500%. Four Norfolk Police officers were dismissed for misconduct in 2023, with 14 let go in 2024 - an increase of 250%, according to data obtained from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. BBC 30/12/2025 News ‘Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities This study explores people’s thresholds and reasons for calling the police in response to incidents invoking uncertainty. It draws upon focus group deliberations and a nationally representative survey in which participants were presented with scenarios invoking vulnerability via depictions of disorderly behaviour and potentially harmful activity. People want and expect police to respond rapidly in situations where vulnerable people are identified as presenting immediate risk, while also recognizing that follow-up intervention from specialized services may be necessary. When deciding to call the police, people think about the situational contingencies and readily available means by which an incident might be brought under control, rather than simply their opinions of the police. Distrust in and low expectations of police can be superseded by strategic recourse to police as a mechanism for restoring social order given their situationally justified capacity for force. The British Journal of Criminology 30/12/2025 Research article PolicingTV’s Top 5 videos of 2025 Join us as we revisit the top five videos of 2025 and showcase the conversations that captured global attention. This highlights package explores the innovations and achievements within policing, particularly focusing on the role of the Special Constabulary, personal journeys into policing, leadership challenges in homicide investigations, and the importance of community involvement in modern policing. PolicingTV 30/12/2025 Feature, Video Congratulations to policing and public safety recipients of the 2026 New Year Honours We are pleased to publish and recognise the policing and public safety recipients of the UK and overseas 2026 New Year Honours. The team at Policing Insight offer our congratulations and thank all the recipients for their service. Policing Insight 30/12/2025 News Saskatoon police chief discusses why spending soars as crime drops CANADA: Chief Cam McBride talks about an eventful year for law enforcement and what lies ahead. Chief Cam McBride acknowledges crime has declined even as spending on police will rise to one-quarter of the city’s budget next year. McBride said in a year-end interview with CBC that the volume of calls to police continues to rise, even though the number of criminal code violations has dropped for the second straight year. CBC News (Canada) 29/12/2025 Feature, Interview, Opinion Toronto’s police chief sits down for a year end interview CANADA: Myron Demkiw says he’s concerned about the rise in hate crime and is encouraged that other major crime indicators are down. Catherine McDonald reports. Global News (Canada) 29/12/2025 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Saskatoon police set to enforce breathalyzer demand without suspicion of impairment CANADA: Officers will begin exercising additional powers to breathalyze drivers at traffic stops without needing reasonable doubt of impairment on Jan. 1, the Saskatoon Police Service says .The move by SPS aligns with other police services across Saskatchewan, including the RCMP and Regina Police Service, which already mandate breath testing during traffic enforcement. CBC News (Canada) 29/12/2025 News National Police Federation criticizes Alberta Next Panel’s law enforcement recommendations CANADA: The national RCMP union is criticizing what it calls a "misleading" report that urges Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government to continue steps to ditch the Mounties. Brian Sauvé, the head of the National Police Federation, says the Alberta Next Panel is trying to revive a proposal that has already been rejected by Albertans. CBC News (Canada) 29/12/2025 News PCC suggests tagging asylum seekers A police and crime commissioner (PCC) has urged the government to look into making asylum seekers wear electrotonic tags. Sussex's Katy Bourne, who suggested that any initiative should start with males, said tags would give asylum seekers "greater freedom" to travel further from holding centres and to help them get temporary jobs. BBC 29/12/2025 News New Year Honours 2026 – Congratulations Police officers, staff and volunteers from across the country are among those who've been recognised in His Majesty The King's New Year Honours List. Among the 1,157 recipients honoured for going "above and beyond for their communities" in the 2026 list are 34 police and law enforcement personnel of various ranks, recognised for their invaluable contribution to policing. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 29/12/2025 News ‘The jeopardy is immense’: Job insecurity among civilian police staff in an English police and crime commissioner’s office This article explores the experiences and implications of administrative staff's job insecurity within an Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) in England. The 2011 Police and Social Responsibility Act established a new system of local police government in England and Wales pivoted around the figure of a locally elected official. OPCC (civilian) staff are key to developing and implementing local police and crime policy; however, their employment dependency on the commissioner within a neoliberal environment appears to significantly impact their perceptions of job security. Drawing on semi-structured interview data (n = 24) with OPCC staff members (n = 13) from a wider ethnographic study, we identify novel acute perceptions of job insecurity among this category of personnel as a prime mover of what we understand as an overpoliticisation of the post-2011 institutional architecture. This latter novel characteristic arguably erodes the impartiality and sobriety that leads to a rational and effective local police and crime policy. Embedding our analysis within an understanding of the wider neoliberal public sector reform strategies, we offer original empirical insights on a much-neglected aspect of the local governance of policing in England. Ultimately, we show how an institutional architecture that in principle intends to further democratic legitimation and local policy responsiveness may in practice operate to the detriment of these very same aims. International Journal of Police Science & Management 29/12/2025 Research article Assessment of risk factors and preventive measures for inorganic and organic GSR secondary transfer in arrest scenarios This study monitored the transfer of inorganic and organic gunshot residues (IGSR and OGSR) in cases where indirect exposure might be questioned, such as during arrests. Mock arrest scenarios (n = 180) were created to assess the effect of two variables on the secondary transfer. First, the level of contact between the detained and the officer (low, medium, and high) during the arrest protocols. Second, the activities preceding the arrest include situations where the officer or person of interest (POI) discharges a firearm or handles a gun without firing. Additionally, measures to mitigate the risk of GSR transfer from the arresting officer and surfaces were evaluated. This included variables like hand washing, wearing various types of gloves, and bagging the POI's hands during transport in a police vehicle (n = 70). All samples underwent screening (ECD and LIBS) and confirmatory analysis (SEM–EDS and LC–MS/MS). The results indicated that IGSR and OGSR behave differently, with their transfer and persistence varying according to the level of contact, activities, and exposure prior to arrest. Secondary transfer was observed in 69% of the experiments but was less likely to occur for OGSR than for IGSR. The OGSR was more prone to loss, as it was not detected in 93% of the medium- and high-contact scenarios. Preventive measures such as hand washing, wearing nitrile gloves, or bagging hands helped decrease the characteristic IGSR particle counts from 5–80 to none-11. These findings enhance the current knowledge of IGS/OGSR transfer and persistence while providing recommendations for arrest protocols and evidence collection. Journal of Forensic Sciences 29/12/2025 Research article Ministerial advisory group wants commitment to tackling transnational organised crime in Budget 2026 NEW ZEALAND: The chairperson of a ministerial advisory group on organised crime says he won't be satisfied until he sees the government commit resources to tackling the issue of organised crime. The government launched a plan earlier this month to combat transnational organised crime, including setting up a new agency and minister responsible, developing inter-agency information sharing, and establishing a maritime campaign to disrupt criminal networks in the Pacific. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 29/12/2025 News NSW and Victoria Police to be armed with long-arm rifles this New Year’s Eve AUSTRALIA: Heavily armed police will be present in Sydney and Melbourne on New Years Eve with weapons not normally seen in public in Australia. The extra security comes as police across the country reassess their public safety strategies after the Bondi terror attack. SBS News (Australia) 29/12/2025 News, Video «257258259260261262263264265Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
