Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115027 total results. Showing results 5561 to 5580 «275276277278279280281282283Next ›Last » ‘Considerable’ achievements by gardaí in first half of 2025, policing authority says REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The chief executive of the Policing and Community Safety Authority (PCSA), Helen Hall, has said that she finds the “characterisation” of their mid-year assessment as being strongly critical “just a little bit strange.” Breaking News (Republic of Ireland) 16/12/2025 News Consultation on licensing for knife sales The government is consulting on a new licensing scheme designed to save lives by blocking illegal knife sales and imports. Home Office 16/12/2025 News PFEW welcomes landmark sentencing reform to protect police, prison and probation staff Government announces whole life orders for murders connected to the off-duty and retired police, prison or probation officer's current or former duties. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 16/12/2025 News Irish Government prioritising Bill to let gardai give Omagh inquiry evidence REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Legislation to allow for oral testimony of Irish police and other officials to be provided to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry has been given priority by the Dublin Government. Ireland Live (Republic of Ireland) 16/12/2025 News Stronger controls on knife sales proposed A new licensing scheme is being proposed by the Government to block illegal knife sales and imports. Police Professional 16/12/2025 News Met Police steps up spiking prevention with VR and high-tech detection The Metropolitan Police Service is stepping up its efforts to tackle spiking in London, combining technology, immersive training and close collaboration with venues as the festive season approaches. Emergency Services Times 16/12/2025 News Private policing must be part of the crime-fighting mix, report concludes Partnerships between the police and the private sector will be essential if the UK is going to tackle the scale and complexity of modern crimes such as theft and fraud, according to a new report examining the evolution of public and private policing in the UK. Emergency Services Times 16/12/2025 News Life behind bars for police, prison and probation killers Whole life orders for murders connected to the police, prison or probation officer's current or former duties. Ministry of Justice (MoJ) 16/12/2025 News UK sex offenders may have to tell police about social media and dating accounts Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood plans to ‘use full power of the state’ to curb rise in targeted attacks using websites The Guardian 16/12/2025 News Abuse victims to get specialist NHS support A new referral service will connect victims with help through their GP and there's up to £50 million for therapeutic support for child victims of sexual abuse. Home Office 16/12/2025 News Patchy progress: How UK police forces are responding to the Oscar Kilo enhanced occupational health standards Occupational-health provision within UK policing has undergone substantial reform over the past decade, driven by growing awareness of the psychological cost of exposure to trauma in both operational and technical roles. The establishment of the National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS) under the Oscar Kilo banner marked a turning point in how policing began to conceptualise and standardise workforce well-being. Forensic Focus 16/12/2025 Analysis, Feature Duration of criminal justice proceedings for sexual offences against children in Finland Prolonged processing times pose a significant challenge to the administration of justice in Finland and across Europe. Extended delays adversely affect those involved in legal proceedings and undermine the timely delivery of justice, which is vital for public trust in the legal system. This article analyses the times taken to process sexual offences targeting children and the factors associated with their protraction. The data include official statistics on reported, prosecuted, and adjudicated cases between 2014 and 2023, along with their turnaround times. In addition, the study examines the final decisions of district courts and courts of appeal from 2017 to 2018 to identify variables that might explain the time required in terms of the characteristics of the offence or the parties involved. The results indicate considerably longer durations for sexual offences against children compared to other serious sexual and violent crimes. The study also outlines regional disparities in the time taken, especially during pre-trial investigations. Few factors related to offence characteristics and involved parties reached statistical significance, highlighting the disproportionate impact of lengthy proceedings on the most vulnerable children. Regional differences indicate the need for further area-based examination of investigative and judicial processes and resource allocation. Nordic Journal of Criminology 16/12/2025 Research article Identifying risk work tensions in policing and mental health partnerships in England This paper advances understanding of risk management within Police Mental Health Triage (PMHT) partnerships. It highlights the contrasting approaches taken by police officers and mental health practitioners, recognising the ways in which their wider organisational logics, framed by social and economic pressures, impact individual risk worker identity and frontline practice. Using risk work theory, it explores how these professionals construct their risk worker identities and manage tensions between risk knowledge, intervention strategies, and social relations, in a partnership setting. Based on empirical research conducted across three English sites using a qualitative-led mixed methods approach, the findings reveal that police officers and mental health practitioners approach risk management in fundamentally different ways, shaped by organisational structures and accountability mechanisms, while still grappling with the impact of the austerity decade. For police officers, the main tension arises between risk knowledge and intervention, driven by concerns about personal accountability, reputational risk, and organisational scrutiny. In contrast, mental health practitioners experience tension between interventions and social relations, particularly within the limitations of an underfunded and overstretched crisis care system. These differences create significant challenges in aligning risk management practices within PMHT schemes, raising questions about the effectiveness of such partnerships in achieving their desired aims. While PMHT may improve user experiences in some cases, it is unlikely to achieve meaningful reductions in detentions or address the broader systemic issues that drive mental health-related demand on police services. Broader reforms in mental health services are necessary to bridge these persistent gaps in risk approaches. Policing and Society 16/12/2025 Research article A Conditional Ordinal Stereotype Model to Estimate Police Officers’ Propensity to Escalate Force This article introduces a conditional ordinal stereotype model for estimating a police officer’s latent propensity to escalate to higher-severity force options during an encounter. Propensity to escalate is the likelihood of selecting a more serious force category than peer officers confronting the same circumstances, not necessarily implying that such force is excessive or contrary to policy. The associated conditional likelihood depends solely on data from the times and places where multiple officers use various forms of force, precisely the types of situations that police departments are most likely to document. By design, all shared situational and environmental features cancel out of the conditional likelihood, eliminating the need to observe or model them explicitly. The article proves that officer-level inference independent of shared environmental features can arise only from the proposed conditional ordinal stereotype model, establishing it as the unique model with this invariance property. On simulated examples, the conditional ordinal stereotype model recovers which officers escalate force the most, potentially risking unnecessary injuries or fatalities, and which officers may be too reluctant, potentially endangering themselves, colleagues, or the public. Applying the approach to use-of-force data from Seattle finds nine officers with a high probability of being local outliers in their use-of-force networks. By quantifying officer-level variation while accounting for situational context, the conditional ordinal stereotype model expands the analytic toolkit available to police executives and oversight bodies for proactive risk management. Journal of the American Statistical Association - Subscription at source 16/12/2025 Research article VicPD’s police chief explains what’s contributing to the department’s increased overtime pay CANADA: After learning that Victoria Police’s overtime costs are on the rise, the department’s Chief of Police Chief Fiona Wilson is setting the record straight. “The real solution to excessive amounts of overtime is proper funding and staffing,” said Wilson. Documents obtained through a Freedom Of Information (FOI) request, which do not name any of the officers, show that since 2022, more officers are making more overtime. chek News (Canada) 16/12/2025 News A look back at 2025 with new Regina police Chief Lorilee Davies CANADA: CBC Saskatchewan’s Alexander Quon sat down with Regina police Chief Lorilee Davies to talk about her appointment as the first woman police chief in the province, the tumultuous year for the Regina Police Service and her future plans for the organization. CBC News (Canada) 16/12/2025 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video ASIRT investigating after Calgary police officer shoots man ‘acting erratically’ at LRT station CANADA: Police chief says the man was carrying a knife and the incident escalated quickly CBC News (Canada) 16/12/2025 News Killers who murder police face spending whole life behind bars Government extends whole life orders in wake of murder of prison officer Lenny Scott The Telegraph - Subscription at source 16/12/2025 News Killers who target police, prison and probation officers to get whole life orders David Lammy has announced plans to toughen up punishments after former prison officer Lenny Scott was murdered in a revenge attack The Independent 16/12/2025 News One in eight teens approached to sell, move or store drugs, new report claims Children across England and Wales are being targeted and lured into criminal activities, including the sell of drugs, research by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) reveals. 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