Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 97047 total results. Showing results 53641 to 53660 «267926802681268226832684268526862687Next ›Last » Lessons from the swamps: Turtle and orchid seizures inform hunt for smugglers The illegal trade in wildlife and plants threatens some of the world's most vulnerable and endangered species; but tackling this illicit activity can also help law enforcement agencies in the fight against other serious and organised international crime, as freelance journalist and specialist scientific and environmental writer Georgina Kenyon explains. Policing Insight 21/1/2021 Feature, Opinion Dismissed officers can now apply to be removed from Barred List The Police Foundation has published a report that looks at the impact of crime on food delivery couriers in London’s gig economy. College of Policing 21/1/2021 Feature ‘Fear of crime in the gig economy’ – Police Foundation First study of its kind released that explores and gives a voice to this category of workers from a criminological perspective College of Policing 21/1/2021 News Victimisation and Fear of Crime in the Gig Economy Technology has facilitated the growth of the food delivery gig economy in London. However, in parallel, there has been a growth in moped theft and mopedenabled crime in recent years, with food delivery couriers becoming a particular target. Not only can a stolen moped have a devastating impact on a courier’s livelihood, that moped is then used to commit other offences, such as drive-by possession snatches, fuelling a wider criminal network. The Police Foundation 21/1/2021 Report Federation to give IOPC inquiry evidence to Home Affairs Select Committee The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has been called to give evidence on January 27 to the Home Affairs Select Committee on its inquiry into the remit of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, the police complaints system and the time taken to resolve complaints. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 21/1/2021 News Protection of Workers Bill passed A new law to protect retail staff from assault while at work has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. Holyrood Magazine 21/1/2021 News MSPs express ‘serious concerns’ over new domestic abuse legislation The Scottish Parliament's justice committee has warned there are "significant concerns" over how new domestic abuse legislation would work in practice. Holyrood Magazine 21/1/2021 News Recorded Crime in Scotland: December 2020 Official Statistics on crimes and offences recorded by the police in Scotland for December 2020. Scottish Government 21/1/2021 Report More than £250 million for drug deaths emergency An additional £50 million will be allocated every year for the next five years to improve and increase services for people affected by drug addiction. Scottish Government 21/1/2021 News Northern Ireland: Thousands of relatives of Troubles victims demand full investigation into violence "The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability," the relatives say. Sky News 21/1/2021 News Ministers spurned drug tsar’s guidance of £900m funding to tackle misuse leaked emails show government dismissed funding plea before £80m announcement The Guardian 21/1/2021 News Policies, Procedures and Risk Aversity: Police Decision-Making in Domestic Violence Matters in An Australian Jurisdiction Domestic violence (DV) is an issue of global concern, which has been subject to public health and criminal justice reforms for decades. Much attention has been paid to legal responses to DV, specifically the policing of this social issue. Police responses have frequently been scrutinised for not taking DV seriously, not placing sufficient emphasis on perpetrator accountability and not recognising and acknowledging victim survivor preferences sufficiently. The current study examines police responses to DV in an Australian jurisdiction that has been subject to substantial DV-focused policy and law reforms in recent years. Drawing on focus group data from 19 police officers and prosecutors, this article examines the factors that shape police decision making when responding to DV. Findings identify a shift towards more proactive and protective policing of DV, guided by a strong emphasis on operational policies and procedures, risk perceptions and aversity. Findings further reveal limited room for victim preferences in police responses to DV, highlighting the need for specialist DV units to provide holistic and nuanced responses to families affected by DV. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 21/1/2021 Research article Policing Covid-19 Physical Distancing Measures: Managing Defiance and Fostering Compliance Among Individuals Least Likely to Comply Physical distancing measures have become the first line of defence for slowing COVID-19 virus transmission. However, studies have demonstrated that compliance with physical distancing restrictions has not been uniform. Police have also encountered widespread resentment of the restrictions, defiance, and people purposefully flouting restrictions. In this study, we examined factors associated with compliance with COVID-19 restrictions among those who held defiant attitudes toward police during the early stages of the pandemic in Australia. The study draws on survey data collected from 1595 Australians during the initial lockdown period in Australia. Regression analysis was applied to determine if two forms of defiance toward police (resistance and disengagement) were associated with reduced compliance with restrictions while controlling for other known correlates of compliance. We also identified factors that were associated with compliance among highly resistant and disengaged individuals. Findings indicate that defiant individuals were significantly less likely to comply with physical distancing restrictions. Among highly resistant and disengaged individuals, recent police-initiated encounters that were deemed to be procedurally unjust were also associated with reduced compliance. In addition, highly disengaged individuals were less likely to comply if they were concerned about ongoing loss of freedoms post-COVID-19. The implications of the findings for defiance and compliance research, as well as for COVID-19 policing strategies, are discussed. Victims and Offenders 21/1/2021 Research article Home Secretary Priti Patel says police should be a priority for vaccine and she is ‘working to absolutely try’ to bump them up the queue after Met Chief Dame Cressida Dick’s intervention Priti Patel today said police officers should be bumped up the coronavirus vaccine priority list after Dame Cressida Dick said she was 'baffled' why they had not been already. Mail Online 21/1/2021 News Dynamic Assessment of Registered Sexual Offenders: the National Practitioner Perspective on the Use of the ‘active Risk Management System’ This paper examines police and national probation service (NPS) practitioners’ experiences of utilising a dynamic risk management tool with registered sexual offenders (RSOs) in the community. The Active Risk Management System (ARMS) was designed as a multi-agency tool providing police with a dynamic tool for use with RSOs and the NPS with a sexual offender specific tool to support their original dynamic risk tool OASys (Offender Assessment System). Based on both quantitative and qualitative research with every police force and every NPS division in England and Wales, this paper highlights that despite a comprehensive adoption of ARMS within policing practice, the theoretical benefits of the ARMS tool have unfortunately not been realised. The resource implications of the tool’s utilisation, the different needs and siloed working practices of the police and NPS as well as a staggered implementation of the tool across both agencies has presented challenges for the practical use of ARMS in both single and joint agency offender management. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 21/1/2021 Research article Christine Dacera: Police chief’s removal ordered over ‘botched’ rape probe An order has been made to remove a police chief of an affluent area of the Philippine capital, Manila, for his handling of a probe into the suspected rape and murder of an air stewardess. BBC 21/1/2021 News Internal memo reveals WA Police lost six years of sexual assault emails AUSTRALIA: Western Australia's Police force lost six years' worth of emails sent to an address set up to receive correspondence from sexual assault victims, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws have revealed. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 20/1/2021 News Taser and pepper spray during arrest found to be ‘excessive use of force’ – IPCA NEW ZEALAND: The police watchdog has found officers who used a taser and put pepper spray between a man's eyes while arresting him was not justified. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 20/1/2021 News Skyrocketing number of lost shifts at Victoria police has a positive side, chief says CANADA: Chief Const. Del Manak says officers, staff being more proactive looking after their mental health Victoria News (Canada) 20/1/2021 News Sarnia police equipped with mental health screening software CANADA: All front-line police officers in Sarnia now have a mental health screening tool at their fingertips. The interRai Brief Mental Health Screener (BMHS) assessment tool software was rolled out to all officers’ phones earlier this month, said Const. Giovanni Sottosanti. 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