Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 98646 total results. Showing results 55341 to 55360 «276427652766276727682769277027712772Next ›Last » First Responder Peer Support: An Evidence-Informed Approach First responders may be exposed to intensely traumatic incidents, with the potential to result in adverse psychological and physiological reactions. Peer support programs have been employed to mitigate these potential effects. Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) has been widely employed as a means of responding to emergency services’ stress responses. This incorporates the use of “Critical Incident Stress Debriefing” (CISD), a technique in which a facilitator helps the rescuer talk about their feelings regarding the incident. Inherent in CISD, psychological debriefing has been described as a brief crisis intervention usually administered within days of a traumatic event. Controversy has arisen over the use of psychological debriefing as a safe and effective tool for peer support. Organizations may be exposed to liability when offering “a practice that is not supported by the preponderance of the available scientific evidence.” Psychological First Aid has been described as an alternative modality, broadly endorsed by expert consensus, which can be readily learned and employed by peer support teams. “Listen, Protect, Connect” is an easy-to-remember means to summarize and approach the concept of Psychological First Aid. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 18/1/2021 Research article Investigative Interviews With Suspects and Witnesses: A Survey of Perceptions and Interview Practices Among Malaysian Police Interviewing of suspects, victims, and eyewitnesses contributes significantly to the investigation process. While a great deal is known about the investigative interviewing practices in the United Kingdom and the Nordic region, very little is known about the framework used by Malaysian police officers. A survey was administered to 44 Royal Malaysian Police interviewers serving in the Sexual, Women and Child Investigations Division (D11) of the Crime Investigation Department. Respondents were asked about the investigative interviewing techniques they use with suspects, witnesses, and victims; how effective they think these techniques are; and the training they had received. Findings revealed that many police officers currently possess limited knowledge of best practice investigative interviewing. More training, feedback, and supervision is needed and desired. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 18/1/2021 Research article Defence Digital and techUK have developed a code of practice for relationships between the organisation and its technology suppliers. The group, which works within the Ministry of Defence to provide digital technology to the military and business units, and the IT industry association said they published the code at the end of last year and have now produced a list of nine signatories from the defence sector and 36 from the industry. UKAuthority.com - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News NCSC launches service for safer digital roaming The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched a mobile version of Protective Domain Name Service (PDNS) for the public sector. UKAuthority.com 18/1/2021 News Blue light charities launch fitness fundraiser Four Blue Light charities have launched a month long charity fitness fundraiser to support theurt Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News PCC’s innovative approaches to community engagement prove crucial in COVID-19 lockdowns Devon and Cornwall’s Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner has been pioneering efforts to improve community engagement over the past five years; and while COVID-19 has had a huge impact on face-to-face contact, the team’s approach has continued to bear fruit during pandemic lockdowns, as Policing Insight Contributing Editor Tina Orr Munro reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 Feature, Innovation PSNI faces legal challenge on powers of entry under COVID laws The PSNI and Justice Minister Naomi Long have both argued the power is available to officers under the regulations. Police Oracle 18/1/2021 News Tributes paid to serving CNC officer who died in collision A 'dedicated and committed' Civil Nuclear Constabulary officer has died in a road traffic collusion. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News PSNI says no evidence shots were fired at police helicopter The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has denied claims from “violent dissident republicans” that shots were fired at a police helicopter. Police Professional 18/1/2021 News Preventing Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – An Agenda for Action across the Financial Services Sector The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton, has today published a joint report which has found worryingly low levels of awareness of forced labour and exploitation of workers in the UK’s financial sector. The study, led by Dame Sara Thornton, the UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, suggests nearly half of bankers and other finance staff don’t know about the nature and scale of the problem - nor how their business is involved in the abuse. The report, carried out in partnership with Themis and the TRIBE Freedom Foundation, shows how finance is at the heart of labour exploitation - a multi-million-pound industry - and calls on leaders to take a stand against it. Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner 18/1/2021 Report Labour slam Government over police files deletion A Labour MP has accused the Cabinet of a "corrosive" culture of not taking responsibility following the accidental deletion of hundreds of thousands of police records. Belfast Telegraph 18/1/2021 News More Cops, Less Trust? Disentangling the Relationship Between Police Numbers and Trust in the Police in the European Union This paper investigates the relationship between number of police officers per inhabitant and trust in the police in the EU. By compiling data sources from the Eurobarometer, the Eurostat and the Corruption Perception Index, we test whether the number of police officers per inhabitant is a robust predictor of trust in the police on the country level. While there is a strong negative correlation between the two variables that justifies stating that the police are trusted most in countries where the number of police is minimal, controlling for relevant covariates reveals that the correlation is technically spurious. In line with distributive justice theory, perceptions of corruption in the respective countries explain most of the variation in trust in the police, which completely levels the influence of number of police officers per inhabitant. Implications for research and policy are discussed at the end of the paper. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Fewer than one in 10 police officers fired after gross misconduct finding Figures from England and Wales raise questions about IOPC’s efficiency as police forces’ watchdog The Guardian 18/1/2021 News Using Collaborative, Mixed-Methods Research to Determine Professional Self-Care’s Relation to Burnout Among Police Officers At A Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Site Burnout, an occupational syndrome characterized by feelings of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished personal accomplishment, is highly prevalent among police officers, perhaps as a result of regular and repeated exposure to job-related stressful events. Burnout might be especially problematic for officers working with sexual assault victims, as this sensitive work requires officers to be exposed to trauma while conducting trauma-informed, victim-centered investigations. The current study used interagency, multidisciplinary collaboration and a mixed-method design to examine professional self-care as a mechanism to combat burnout among police officers (n = 331) at a Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) site in the southeastern region of the United States. Professional self-care better predicted each component of burnout than did exposure to job-related trauma, being injured on-duty, number of critical incident types experienced, and years on the force. Specifically, engagement in professional development activities best predicted reduced emotional exhaustion and depersonalization of victims. Officers’ qualitative responses supported quantitative survey data, with 48% requesting an increase in professional self-care opportunities (e.g., more trainings, professional support) offered by their organization. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Perception of Acceptability and Usability of A Modified Cognitive Interview in the Evaluation of Police Training in France Since the 1980s, a large body of research has proven the superiority of enhanced or modified cognitive interviews over the standard interviews used by police officers around the world. Although the cognitive interview is well grounded in theory and has proven practical value, this tool is not always used by police officers. The objective of the present study was to measure the various dimensions of Nielsen’s 1993 acceptability model and thus understand what prevents police officers in France from using a modified cognitive interview. We recruited 23 police officers who had an average of ~ 20 years of police force experience, and trained them for at least two days in how to perform a modified cognitive interview. We measured the modified cognitive interview’s social acceptability, compatibility, and usability at different time points during the training. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Examining Guardian and Warrior Orientations Across Racial and Ethnic Lines With research tending to suggest that officers are psychologically oriented to one ideological side of the policing spectrum, the buy-in to a hybrid orientation involving both guardian and warrior orientations among patrol officers remains understudied and undertheorized. The purpose of this pilot study is to test whether the guardian and warrior orientation can coexist by examining whether the warrior orientation is predictive of the guardian orientation among patrol officers. Moreover, tests are conducted to assess whether the coexistence of warrior and guardian orientations varies across White and non-White patrol officers. OLS regressions were conducted utilizing an online sample of patrol officers (n = 882) pooled from nationally recognized website, PoliceOne.com. Results showed that warrior and guardian orientations are not mutually exclusive. Specifically, officers who are more supportive of aggressively enforcing the law are more supportive of the guardian orientation. However, we find evidence that Hispanic and Latino/a patrol officers are more supportive of this hybrid style of policing than White officers. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Head of police union sues over misconduct charge Police Scotland is being taken to court by the head of the union that represents most of its officers. The Times - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News Home Office warned of ‘creaking’ police database The Home Office was warned 18 months ago that a lack of investment in “creaking” police databases put the public at “significant risk”, The Times has learnt. The Times - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News Cars to be confiscated if breath test refused Motorists face having their car confiscated if they fail to provide a breath sample to police, under new guidance. The Times - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News Home Office working to restore Police National Computer data Home Office engineers work to restore data lost from the Police National Computer Home Office 17/1/2021 News «276427652766276727682769277027712772Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
