Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 97202 total results. Showing results 55721 to 55740 «278327842785278627872788278927902791Next ›Last » Health PEI ignores recommendation, adds police to mobile mental health units CANADA: Health PEI has disregarded the recommendation of a steering committee by moving forward with mobile mental health units that include plainclothes, armed police officers in every mobile response. Opponents of this model say it criminalizes mental health issues. The Star (Canada) 11/11/2020 News Overdoses during the pandemic USA: Recently released data suggest that, after decreasing in 2018, drug overdose deaths in the United States rose in 2019 and have continued to increase this year as the pandemic has increased isolation and disrupted access to treatment efforts. To get some insights on what is happening, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler interviewed Allie Hunter of the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative. PAARI defines its mission as “providing training, strategic guidance, support, and resources to help law enforcement agencies nationwide create non-arrest pathways to treatment and recovery.” Police Executive Research Forum 11/11/2020 Feature New OACP document aimed to assist police with hate/bias crime CANADA: Waterloo Regional Police Chief Bryan Larkin said the 'Hate/Bias Crime: A Review of Policies, Practices, and Challenges' document will allow them to talk with larger stakeholders on how they can do business differently Kitchener Today (Canada) 11/11/2020 News Police pick new motorbikes as hunt continues for next patrol car NEW ZEALAND: Police have selected their new motorcycles but still have a way to go on the road to finding their next patrol vehicles. A spokeswoman from their Wellington headquarters said police had wrapped up the tender process for new patrol bikes. Yamaha Motor New Zealand won the contract. Stuff (New Zealand) 11/11/2020 News Review calls for overhaul of Scotland’s police complaints system Dame Elish Angiolini’s damning report says system lacks transparency and accountability The Guardian 11/11/2020 News NAIDOC Week heralds launch of new QPS First Nations and Multicultural Affairs Unit AUSTRALIA: In recognition of the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Commissioner Katarina Carroll took part in a flag raising ceremony and launch of the First Nations and Multicultural Affairs Unit at Police Headquarters this morning. myPolice - Queensland Police News 11/11/2020 News NSW Police to receive $60 million boost for Goulburn Academy upgrade AUSTRALIA: The NSW Police Force Academy will receive $60 million in next week's state budget to upgrade dated facilities, including students' accommodation, classrooms and weapon training. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 11/11/2020 News Policing – complaints handling, investigations and misconduct issues: Independent review First independent review of complaint handling, misconduct and investigations since the creation of new policing structures in 2013. It reviews the effectiveness of the new systems for dealing with complaints against the police, how well complaints are investigated and the processes involved. Scottish Government 11/11/2020 Report Police custody deaths ‘should be investigated like homicides’ A report found delays to police custody death investigations can add to family distress and impact officers involved. STV News 11/11/2020 News Councils and police are acting like ‘uncontrolled SPIES’ with surveillance technology as sophisticated as MI5 but no regulation, warns Government watchdog Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras are the equivalent of being traced by MI5, the government watchdog warned today. Surveillance camera commissioner Tony Porter claimed police and councils can act like spies let off the leash due to the widespread technology. Mail Online 11/11/2020 News Police union condemns federal corruption commission as a ‘protection racket’ for government MPs AUSTRALIA: Exclusive: The Coalition’s Commonwealth Integrity Commission would subject police to public hearings but shield politicians from them The Guardian 11/11/2020 News Notes on Police Research in France EUROPE: Until the early 1980s, social science research on policing issues was extremely rare in France. Most of what was written were essays by politicians, investigations by journalists or, more often, memoirs by former police officers. The rare academic works were dominated by narrowly legal approaches describing police powers and their legal framework, or philosophical texts discussing in the abstract what police powers should be. While these publications were of interest, they took little account of police practices in the field and the dynamic features of police organizational life. For many academics, policing in action was a “dirty subject”, one associated with the mundane and sometimes unpleasant daily functions of the State (see Berlière and Lévy 2011). At the same time, the police saw external researchers as excessively critical, engaged in a needless airing of the organizational and political realities they knew well and struggled to deal with. BSC Policing Network 11/11/2020 Feature, Opinion Special taskforce arrests 39 for online child sexual abuse offences A new taskforce set up to tackle online child sexual abuse has made 39 arrests in its first four weeks of operation. Police Professional 11/11/2020 News Deaths in police custody ‘should be investigated as urgently as homicides’ Investigations into deaths in police custody should be treated with the same urgency as homicide investigations, according to an independent review. Police Professional 11/11/2020 News Widely used illegal streaming platform switched off from Switzerland Nearly €1.9 million profit generated from about 20 000 boxes sold Europol 11/11/2020 News SPA Response to Police Complaint Handling Review David Crichton, Interim Chair of the SPA said: “We are grateful to Dame Elish for her work on this final report. We welcome in particular its focus on the whole complaints system rather than its individual component Scottish Police Authority (SPA) 11/11/2020 News Goodwill Hunting: How do we balance effort, risk and reward? Headlines talking about the continuing exodus of exhausted emergency services staff raise few eyebrows, suggesting society has become comfortably numb to the plight of frontline first responders; former officer and now Mightify CEO Tom Wheelhouse says it’s time the public sector started investing in the person, rather than the post. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 11/11/2020 Feature, Opinion ‘More powers’ for watchdog over Police Scotland complaints The police watchdog should be given greater powers to deal with complaints against the national force, according to a major independent review. BBC 11/11/2020 News Tariq Ali spied on by at least 14 undercover officers, inquiry hears Monitoring went on as recently as 2003 when leftwing writer opposed Iraq war, inquiry told The Guardian 11/11/2020 News Social media could help Lagos police officers fight crime: Why it’s not happening Around 120 million Nigerians have access to the internet, with more than half using at least one social media platform, but police in Lagos have yet to maximise the potential of digital communications to fight crime; criminologist Dr Usman Ojedokun explores why, and what more could be done to engage with the public. Policing Insight 11/11/2020 Feature, Opinion «278327842785278627872788278927902791Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
