Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115977 total results. Showing results 52741 to 52760 «263426352636263726382639264026412642Next ›Last » Wiltshire police officers face using food parcel scheme Police officers struggling to cope with the cost of living crisis have been offered a lifeline with a food parcel scheme. BBC 31/10/2022 News Police chief warns it is ‘completely mad’ to record petty disputes as crime ‘It shouldn’t be crime, but it’s getting really close to how we’re recording it,’ West Midlands Police chief says The Independent 31/10/2022 News Critical court upgrades supporting domestic and sexual violence survivors AUSTRALIA: Safe spaces and modern facilities to help empower domestic and sexual violence survivors and vulnerable witnesses to give their best evidence in court have been installed or upgraded in 45 courthouses across the State. NSW Government (Australia) 31/10/2022 News ‘It’s easy’: Migration agents offering fake visas for $500 a month AUSTRALIA: Federal government agencies have allowed migration agents to keep operating despite repeated warnings about their role in rorting the visa system that is misused by organised crime gangs involved in human trafficking and worker exploitation. Secret briefings from police and border security officials over the past decade warn that some agents have corrupted Australia’s migration system at the same time as the Home Affairs Department has continued to issue them the required licences. The Age (Australia) 31/10/2022 Feature What does it take to be an undercover police officer? David Taylor began his undercover career targeting small-time drug dealers before going deeper into the world of organised crime. But it ended when he was suddenly pulled from a major investigation and he wants to know why. [AUDIO] The Guardian 31/10/2022 Feature Queensland police: woman who was raped and abused killed herself after being wrongly identified as offender, report finds AUSTRALIA: A Queensland woman who was raped, physically assaulted and subject to financial abuse by her partner, killed herself after being wrongly identified as a perpetrator of domestic violence by police, a coronial study has found. The 2022 report of the Queensland Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Board raised concern that police and support services are missing – or not adequately responding to – key indicators of lethal risk. The Guardian 31/10/2022 News ‘There’s only one way to deal with a rat – put it down’: the undercover officer who infiltrated Liverpool’s gangs Having spent more than a year working covertly to target serious criminals involved in drug smuggling, David Taylor was pulled off the operation and he wants to know why The Guardian 31/10/2022 Feature Metropolitan Police’s gang list cut after bias claims A police database to tackle gang crime in London has removed hundreds of names after criticism that it disproportionately targets young black men. More than 1,200 people assessed as “low risk” have been deleted from the Metropolitan Police’s gang violence matrix after a review by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime. The database was set up after the 2011 riots to identify and assess gang members and those at risk of victimisation. The Times - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 News It’s mad to record petty problems as crime, says police chief Incivility and petty disputes are being routinely recorded as crime, warping statistics and scaring the public, one of the country’s most senior police officers has warned. Sir David Thompson, chief constable of the West Midlands, told The Times that crime was being measured in a “completely mad way”. Verbal arguments between neighbours, and people’s fear of violence, were being recorded as criminal acts, which distorted the public’s view, he said. The Times - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 News Talking with Professor Fiona Brookman of the University of South Wales As part of his Policing Friendship Tour, Policing Insight and PolicingTV Publisher Bernard Rix met the University of South Wales' Professor Fiona Brookman, a speaker at the recent International Organised Crime Summit in Santiago, Chile, organised by PDI Chile. PolicingTV - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Talking with Professor Fiona Brookman of the University of South Wales As part of his Policing Friendship Tour, Policing Insight and PolicingTV Publisher Bernard Rix met the University of South Wales' Professor Fiona Brookman, a speaker at the recent International Organised Crime Summit in Santiago, Chile, organised by PDI Chile. PolicingTV 31/10/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Yuliya Zabelina: ‘Without political will it’s unlikely any meaningful change can be made against organised crime’ In the latest in a series of interviews with leading figures involved in the research and investigation of organised crime, Policing Insight’s Chris Allen spoke to Yuliya Zabelina, Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, about growing up in a culture influenced by organised crime, the infiltration by organised crime groups (OCGs) of legal enterprises, and the need for political will for any counter-measures to be effective. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 Feature, Interview GPS tagging migrants ‘psychological torture’, says report. Calls for GPS tagging to be abolished as report finds people left suicidal and stigmatised by the practice. The Guardian 31/10/2022 News Use of live facial recognition can pose ‘serious threats’, report finds. The report, from the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, developed an audit which was applied to three facial recognition deployments. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/10/2022 News Budget variance for the period ending September 30, 2022 CANADA: This report provides information and updates to the Edmonton Police Commission (EPC) on the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) current financial position for the period ending September 30, 2022. [pdf] Edmonton Police Commission (Canada) 31/10/2022 Report Mayor and police join forces against SME cybercrime. London’s Met Police, City of London Police, British Transport Police and the Mayor’s office have jointly launched a new Cyber Resilience Centre for the capital city to combat rising levels of cybercrime. UKAuthority.com 31/10/2022 News Crime figures being warped by recording petty disputes as crime – police chief. Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed a total of 6.5 million crimes were recorded in the 12 months to June 2022. The Independent 31/10/2022 News Met police chief to reform list of alleged gang members targeting black men. Exclusive: Sir Mark Rowley has already removed more than 1,000 young men from the force’s gang violence matrix. The Guardian 31/10/2022 News Review of government counter-terror strategy to tackle threats Refresh ensures UK system is able to continually adapt to new, emerging and persistent security threats Home Office 30/10/2022 News ‘You people’: second-top cop accused of racialised language towards Queensland First Nations leaders AUSTRALIA: First Nations leaders claim Queensland’s second-most senior police officer became angry and aggressive during a meeting with them, pointing his finger at a senior elder and saying “you people” don’t run the organisation. Amid wider claims of serious and systemic racism levelled at the Queensland police service (QPS) at a state inquiry, the relationship between the organisation and its formal First Nations advisory body appears to have substantially broken down. The Guardian 30/10/2022 News «263426352636263726382639264026412642Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
