Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 97014 total results. Showing results 52541 to 52560 «262426252626262726282629263026312632Next ›Last » To expand women’s prisons is idiotic and inhumane. We should phase them out The government has overturned the commitment to reduce the number of women in jail. This ignores how female offenders are very different from their male counterparts The Guardian 28/2/2021 Feature, Opinion Police urge Britons to follow lockdown rules as warm weather pulls crowds Public spaces such as beaches and parks busy as temperatures reach up to 15C in parts of the UK The Guardian 28/2/2021 News Pupils urged to tell police about kids in gangs as knife and drugs crime soars Children as young as 11 are being urged to become unofficial police informants and name peers at risk of becoming involved in knife crime, drugs and gangs. Express 28/2/2021 News Police forces are still unable to explain why they’re so racist According to a report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), “forces still do not fully understand the impact on individuals and communities of the use of police powers”. The report examined police use of force and stop and search against people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. The Canary 28/2/2021 News Voluntary Resignations From the Police Service: the Impact of Organisational and Occupational Stressors on Organisational Commitment The numbers of police officers in England and Wales who resigned voluntarily from the service have been increasing rapidly in recent years. Despite this, there has been scant attention paid to this issue academically or organisationally. Using the guiding framework of organisational commitment with its focus upon active institutional identification, this paper considers police officer decisions to resign voluntarily from the police service. It does this through an analysis of a survey distributed to police officers from one English force who had resigned voluntarily between November 2014 and June 2019. The findings demonstrate that resigning police officers highly value the occupation they have joined, the nature of their work, the opportunities for fulfilling public service ambitions and the satisfaction of working with policing colleagues as part of a team. The findings also indicate however that they are ultimately frustrated by the perceived inability of the organisation to manage the demands upon them and by a sense of organisational ‘injustice’ emanating from perceptions of a lack of ‘voice’, leadership, autonomy and support. This damages the exchange-based working relationship between officers and managers, causing a decline in affective organisational commitment. Consequently, these factors have a negative personal impact upon their physical and mental health and an impact upon their caring responsibilities and personal relationships outside of their working environment. Policing and Society 28/2/2021 Research article Performance Mechanisms Meet Professional Autonomy: Performance Management and Professional Discretion Within Police Investigation Departments As with other parts of the public sector, policing has had to confront the principles and processes attached to new public management. This paper examines the impact of police performance management on the ‘occupational professionalism’ of British policing actors with a particular focus on organisational units concerned with criminal investigation. Based on qualitative empirical research on two major police forces in England and Wales, the paper arrives at three main conclusions. First, there appears to be a clear impact of police performance management, with its instruments of standardised operational procedures, performance monitoring and strengthened internal accountability, on the professional autonomy given to police actors. This takes the form of what others have seen as a shift from ‘occupational professionalism’ to ‘organisational professionalism’. Second, despite this overall trend, tensions and professional rivalries remain between police frontline officers, supervisors and middle managers around the perceived virtues and practices of performance management. Policing and Society - Registration at source 28/2/2021 Research article Cocaine insights 2 – Cocaine: A spectrum of products INTERNATIONAL: The cocaine market presents a clear threat at global level. Well-defined locations of production in South America and large consumer markets in the Americas and Europe lead to trafficking routes from a circumscribed origin to specific, even if far-flung, destinations. [pdf] United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) 28/2/2021 Report The cocaine pipeline to Europe EUROPE: Over the past few years, the cocaine trade has enjoyed an unprecedented boom, fuelled by soaring production. [pdf] Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 28/2/2021 Report Gardai attacked in clashes with lockdown protesters Violent clashes involving anti-lockdown protesters broke out in Dublin city centre yesterday as fireworks and other missiles were thrown at gardai. One officer was injured and taken to hospital. There were 23 arrests, and 12 men and one woman were charged with public order offences at a special court hearing last night. The Sunday Times - Subscription at source 28/2/2021 News Covid-19: Police officers injured at Dublin anti-lockdown protest Three police officers have been injured after attacks during a demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions in the centre of Dublin. BBC 27/2/2021 News We can’t pretend that we can arrest our way to success with methamphetamine NEW ZEALAND: After 45 years knocking around the criminal justice scene in New Zealand it is hard not to be shocked at the meteoric rise in methamphetamine use, and the devastating effect that it has had on our population. We had seen a similar phenomenon with cannabis in the early ‘70s when possessory charges had gone from fewer than 200 in 1972 to more than 100,000 three years later, sparking new legislation. Poorly conceived, this legislation almost promoted criminal drug activity than controlled it, and really, has never controlled it. Stuff (New Zealand) 27/2/2021 Feature, Opinion Prisons should trial free cannabis, says UK’s former chief drug adviser Prof David Nutt supports study into whether move could cut violence and deaths The Guardian 27/2/2021 News PFNI urges devolved administration to ‘prove its worth’ by giving police vaccine priority The chair of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland (PFNI) is calling on the devolved administration to “prove its worth” by choosing to prioritise officers for the vaccine Police Professional 27/2/2021 News Homicide in England and Wales: year ending March 2020 Analyses of information held within the Home Office Homicide Index, which contains detailed record-level information about each homicide recorded by police in England and Wales. Office for National Statistics (ONS) 27/2/2021 Report Number of black homicide victims at highest in nearly two decades The number of black victims of homicide in England and Wales has climbed to its highest level in nearly two decades, according to the Office for National Statistics. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 27/2/2021 News Nottinghamshire use new app to monitor sex offenders’ activity Nottinghamshire Police are installing software onto sex offenders' devices to monitor their digital activity. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 27/2/2021 News Widow of smart motorways victim to parade giant billboard outside police force HQ Claire Mercer claims South Yorkshire Police refusing to pursue corporate manslaughter case against Highways England The Telegraph - Subscription at source 27/2/2021 News Differences in Mental Health, Help-Seeking and Barriers to Care Between Civilians and Sworn Members Working in Law Enforcement: A Research Note Recent Canadian research indicates 44.5% of public safety personnel (PSP) self-report symptoms consistent with at least one type of mental disorder; however, researchers have typically not focused on the mental wellness of civilians working within PSP sectors. Given that the number of civilians working in Canadian law enforcement organizations has doubled since 2003, with more than 30% of all police personnel in Canada being civilians, more research is needed to support this understudied sub-population within law enforcement. The current study used a survey to compare civilian members (n = 80) and sworn (n = 112) police officers working within a law enforcement organization on issues regarding mental disorders, perceived barriers to care and help-seeking behaviours. Results indicate that civilian members self-report a high prevalence of mental disorders and lower resilience compared with police officers in the same organization. Civilians reported similar barriers to accessing mental health compared with police officers but were less likely to indicate willingness to access supports within their place of employment. Our results support the need for equitable access to mental health resources for civilian staff working within law enforcement organizations. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 27/2/2021 Research article The impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences is costing society billions of pounds every year There is growing evidence that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are responsible for many negatives outcomes in adult life, including issues such as violent behaviour and drug addiction; and as Policing Insight Contributing Editor Tina Orr Munro reports, the failure to address ACEs early can cost society billions of pounds in the long term. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 27/2/2021 Analysis, Feature Repeat youth offenders targeted with ‘suite of initiatives’ AUSTRALIA: Queensland’s Police Commissioner says new youth justice reforms will work in a “suite of initiatives” to targed repeat young offenders. The Courier Mail (Australia) - Subscription at source 27/2/2021 News «262426252626262726282629263026312632Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
