Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 98635 total results. Showing results 54961 to 54980 «274527462747274827492750275127522753Next ›Last » Only six Met Police officers disciplined over stop and search misuse since 2014 The UK’s biggest police force has disciplined just six officers over the misuse of stop and search powers since 2014 – despite receiving almost 5,000 complaints, figures reveal. ITV News 1/2/2021 News The Violence Reduction Project: Finding solutions to the surge in violent crime blighting America Against a backdrop of unprecedented rising violence in 2020 – with murders across the biggest 65 cities in the US increasing collectively by a third – Professor Peter Moskos, a former Baltimore police officer, launched the Violence Reduction Project; in this first in a series of essays from practitioners, experts and academics, he highlights the aims of the Project, and the need for urgent action. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 1/2/2021 Feature, Opinion Australia to help south-east Asia combat crime as China deepens influence in region AUSTRALIA: A new program will help countries in the Mekong region tackle drug and human trafficking, child sexual exploitation and financial crimes The Guardian 31/1/2021 News Extra 5,000 Gardai undertook firearms training in effort to tackle gangs threat REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: An additional 5,000 Gardai undertook firearms training in 2020. However, officers discharged their weapons just 17 times, figures show. Justice Minister Helen McEntee revealed that 13,520 of the 14,491 members of the force were firearm trained last year. Extra.ie (Republic of Ireland) 31/1/2021 News Drug prices spike as criminal gangs work around lockdowns AUSTRALIA: Transnational organised crime groups are raking in higher profits as they ramp up the use of trucks, couriers and the postal service to move illicit drugs and cash. The Australian - Subscription at source 31/1/2021 News South Australians reckon our cops are tops AUSTRALIA: South Australia is the state most satisfied with its police force according to a Federal Government survey, that also shows SA ahead in prison education. The Advertiser (Australia) - Subscription at source 31/1/2021 News ‘Don’t blame us’: Top cop wants bail laws changed AUSTRALIA: Queensland’s Police Commissioner has defended her officers and the courts as she vented her frustration over a core group of repeat young offenders who keep walking free. The Courier Mail (Australia) - Subscription at source 31/1/2021 News Organised crime groups fuel a rise in violent crime in the EU A new report by Europol warns that organised crime groups are increasingly employing violence in pursuit of their criminal objectives, and such violence represents a threat to public security in the EU. Based on an analysis of contributions made by Member States to Europol in recent years, there has been a rise in the number of violent incidents associated with serious and organised crime. Furthermore, the analysis points to an increasing willingness from criminal groups to resort to lethal violence. Europol 31/1/2021 News Police horses equipped with front and rear cameras to nab errant drivers A police force’s mounted branch is taking to the streets with front- and rear-facing cameras, in hopes of catching dangerous and inappropriate driving past horses. Horse and hound 31/1/2021 News Counter-terrorism chief warns that Facebook’s plan to encrypt billions of messages will stop the police foiling extremist plots and ‘put lives at risk’ A controversial plan by Facebook to make billions of online messages secret could prevent police from uncovering deadly terror plots in Britain, a top counter-terrorism officer has warned. Mail Online 31/1/2021 News Covid: Police stop illegal rave after hundreds buy tickets Police have stopped an illegal rave that had sold hundreds of tickets before it started, despite it being in breach of Covid rules. BBC 31/1/2021 News Why politicians, not just top cops, must bear responsibility for our police failures Greater Manchester Police was placed into special measures last month and the Chief Constable swiftly quit. But what had politicians been doing? Jennifer Williams investigates Manchester Evening News 31/1/2021 News Police Basic Firearms Training: A Decontextualised Preparation For Real-Life Armed Confrontations The purpose of this study is to compare the basic firearms training delivered by the police (university) colleges in New Zealand and Norway, and how this training reflects experience from real-life armed confrontations. Data stem from document studies and participant observation on all basic firearms courses. Findings show similarities regarding the safety, firearms handling and marksman skills that recruits/students need to have to pass their qualification tests, and the absence of policies for basic firearms training. Distinct differences are the way instructors can access and make use of documented experiences of real-life firearms incidents, and the shooting targets used. For both countries, a key finding is that the firearms training context reflects, to a limited extent, performance environments of real-life armed confrontations. Thus, findings of this study indicate a need for the firearms training itself to be improved, or additional training added, to enhance safe and effective handling of real-life firearms confrontations. Policing and Society - Registration at source 31/1/2021 Research article Capturing Killers: the Construction of CCTV Evidence During Homicide Investigations Drawing upon quantitative and qualitative data gathered during a four-year ethnographic study of 44 British homicide investigations, this paper advances the sparse literature on how closed-circuit television (CCTV) contributes to criminal investigations and the risks associated with its use. Based on insights gleaned from interviews with homicide detectives, analysis of case files and observations of live homicide investigations, we examine how CCTV is used during homicide investigations focusing principally on two key investigative moments – identifying and charging suspects. Our quantitative data indicate that CCTV is used more frequently than any other kind of forensic science or technology to both identify and charge suspects. Nevertheless, our qualitative data reveal numerous challenges associated with how CCTV footage is recovered, viewed, shared, interpreted and packaged for court. We reveal the individual and organisational processes and workarounds that have emerged in a socio-technical landscape that lacks clear standards and principles. We discuss the implications of these findings for practice and policy and their relevance to questions about the socially constructed nature of forensic scientific knowledge. Policing and Society - Registration at source 31/1/2021 Research article Police Killings of Unarmed Black Americans: A Reassessment of Community Mental Health Spillover Effects We reevaluate the claim from Bor et al. (2018: 302) that ‘police killings of unarmed black Americans have effects on mental health among black American adults in the general population.’ The Mapping Police Violence data used by the authors include 91 incidents involving black decedents who were either (1) not killed by police officers in the line of duty or (2) armed when killed. These incidents should have been removed or recoded prior to analysis. Correctly recoding these incidents decreased in magnitude all of the reported coefficients, and, more importantly, eliminated the reported statistically significant effect of exposure to police killings of unarmed black individuals on the mental health of black Americans in the general population. We caution researchers to vet carefully crowdsourced data that tracks police behaviors and warn against reducing these complex incidents to overly simplistic armed/unarmed dichotomies. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 31/1/2021 Research article The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Covid-19 Stay-At-Home Orders on Domestic Violence Calls For Service Across Six U.s. Jurisdictions We assessed immediate and long-term trends in calls for police service regarding domestic violence following COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Using open data from the Police Data Initiative, we performed interrupted time-series analyses of weekly calls for service for domestic violence in New Orleans (LA), Cincinnati (OH), Seattle (WA), Salt Lake City (UT), Montgomery County (MD), and Phoenix (AZ). Results indicate that five of the six jurisdictions experienced an immediate, significant spike in domestic violence calls for service (Cincinnati being the lone exception). As stay-at-home orders were lifted throughout the remainder of 2020, domestic violence calls for service declined in every jurisdiction but Salt Lake City. These results illustrate (1) the importance of studying the localized effects of COVID-19 on criminal justice issues, (2) the need for more agencies to publish open data in a timely fashion, and (3) the caution researchers and the public must use when working with calls for service data, which are not uniform across agencies and require careful cleaning prior to analysis. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 31/1/2021 Research article Rural communities ‘under siege’ by criminal hare-coursing gangs Victims say weak enforcement of the law has done little to deter criminals from running illegal hare course betting syndicates The Telegraph - Subscription at source 31/1/2021 News Annual report to the community 2020 CANADA: I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to represent citizens as Chair of the Calgary Police Commission during one of the most significant years in our history. [pdf] Calgary Police Commission 31/1/2021 Report Edmonton Police Service control tactics statistics 2021 January – December report CANADA: The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) submits two reports annually to the Edmonton Police Commission that outline all instances of reported use of force. [pdf] Edmonton Police Commission (Canada) 31/1/2021 Report Gardai will turn back drivers 5km over the border Gardai are to be given emergency powers to order residents of Northern Ireland to return home if they are more than 5km across the border, government sources said. The Sunday Times - Subscription at source 31/1/2021 News «274527462747274827492750275127522753Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
