Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 97208 total results. Showing results 55781 to 55800 «278627872788278927902791279227932794Next ›Last » Northamptonshire Police officers hurt in boiling water attack Two police officers were injured when a kettle of boiling water was thrown at them, the force said. BBC 10/11/2020 News Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts - plus a short guide outlining how serving police officers and staff can get access, free, to many of the articles listed through the UK's National Police Library. You do not need to be a member of the UK College of Policing to access its library. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 10/11/2020 News A force for change: Policing after the pandemic Even before COVID-19, the next UK Comprehensive Spending Review was set to be a crucial moment for police funding; but as West Midlands Chief Constable Dave Thompson QPM explains, the future of policing is about much more than budgets, with greater accountability, improved public trust and a clearer understanding of local delivery among the key issues. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 10/11/2020 Feature, Opinion French plan to make it illegal to identify police Showing images of a police officer’s face will in effect become illegal in France under a proposed law opposed by human rights groups and the media. The Times - Subscription at source 10/11/2020 News Durham Constabulary set to close local cells and open new £21m police custody suite near Spennymoor Existing police cells in Bishop Auckland, Darlington, Durham City and Peterlee would close and be replaced with the 48-cell central facility Chronicle Live (North East) 10/11/2020 News French police break trafficking ring that ‘sent 1,000 to UK’ Police have broken up a people-smuggling gang believed to have brought between 500 and 1,000 migrants into Britain over the past 12 months. The Times - Subscription at source 10/11/2020 News Investigation progressing into fatal police shooting in Swindon An Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation is progressing after a man was fatally shot by Wiltshire Police on a residential street in Swindon on Sunday morning (8 November). Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) 9/11/2020 News Hate crime action plan 2016 to 2020 The government’s plan for dealing with hate crime in England and Wales. Home Office 9/11/2020 Report Policing and Crime Act: proposals to implement legislation to define antique firearms CONSULTATION OUTCOME: The Law Commission made a recommendation in its 2015 report to provide a statutory definition of ‘antique firearm’ to prevent criminals taking advantage of the lack of a definition to obtain old, but still functioning firearms for use in crime. Home Office 9/11/2020 News Voters approve police reform measures across the country USA: Amid a year with tense demonstrations against police violence and inequities in the criminal justice system, millions of Americans cast votes this year on local ballot measures designed to increase oversight or otherwise reform policing in their cities. Police ballot initiatives in more than a dozen cities received overwhelming support from voters. CBS News 9/11/2020 News Is the Seattle Police Department understaffed? Here’s what the data shows. USA: As the Seattle City Council considers downsizing the city’s police force, one Seattle Times reader emailed me with her concerns. The reader — a resident of downtown Seattle — wonders if the Seattle Police Department (SPD) is not currently overstaffed, but understaffed. “I have been concerned for some time about the low number of sworn police officers in Seattle,” she wrote, “especially in light of our large population growth over the past 10-15 years.” The reader suggested that I share data with my readers on staffing levels in Seattle in comparison with other large U.S. cities. The Seattle Times (USA) 9/11/2020 News Police saw crime dip in first six months of pandemic, Statistics Canada says CANADA: OTTAWA -- Newly released statistics point to a notable drop in police-recorded crime during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistics Canada says 17 police services across Canada reported that selected criminal incidents were down by 17 per cent compared with the same period a year earlier. CP24 (Canada) 9/11/2020 News ‘The system isn’t working’: A third of reported rapes go unsolved AUSTRALIA: More rapes are being reported to police than ever before, but the percentage of cases being solved has dropped, and most survivors still never see the inside of a courtroom, prompting fresh calls from survivors and advocates for a public inquiry. Queensland crime statistics show reported rapes have risen by an average of 3.2 per cent annually since 2000, which is much faster than population growth and against the trend of other violent crimes, such as murders and serious assaults, which fell over the past 20 years. Brisbane Times (Australia) 9/11/2020 News SA Police’s $11m COVID-19 budget blowout AUSTRALIA: The coronavirus pandemic has forced SA Police to spend an unbudgeted $10.9 million in the past three months while up to 550 sworn officers have been redirected from their usual policing duties to respond solely to COVID-19, Commissioner Grant Stevens says. In Daily (Australia) 9/11/2020 News UK police and other investigators spend £4m on phone hacking software Met Police, Police Scotland and CMA have signed deals for Cellebrite tools in past two years Financial Times 9/11/2020 News Interview with Italian Carabinieri Colonel Pietro Carrozza EUROPE: For today’s Daily COVID-19 Report, Chuck Wexler checked in with Carabinieri Colonel Pietro Carrozza, who commands the Verona region of Italy, which is the part of Italy that has been hardest hit by COVID-19 . In previous COVID-19 Reports in April and May, Colonel Carrozza told us about how his department responded to an increase in COVID cases in Italy that peaked in late March (see graph below). Strict rules helped to keep Italy’s infection rates low throughout the summer. Unfortunately, last month, Italy began experiencing a severe resurgence of COVID cases. In today’s report, Colonel Carrozza describes the situation in the Verona region as of early November. From the beginning, Colonel Carrozza told PERF that his first concern was protecting his force, because if many carabinieri [officers] became infected, his department would not be able to do its job. As early as March, he had implemented a wide range of protective measures, including separating shifts so that officers on different shifts would never come into contact with each other. Colonel Carrozza also explained that Italy’s restrictions on the public last spring were quite strict. In the early weeks, many people were restricted from leaving their homes. And police in Verona were patrolling internal borders to enforce rules against people moving from one region of the country to another. In today’s report, Carrozza describes his department’s response to the current wave of cases. Police Executive Research Forum 9/11/2020 Feature, Interview, Opinion CORE political violence and violent organised crime report Q3 2020 We are pleased to release our third quarter report on political violence and violent organised crime incidents around the world. This report draws upon and highlights the extensive incident mapping data and analysis that is available within CORE, the essential risk monitoring platform from Control Risks. The Q3 report details global incidents of war, terrorism, unrest and violent organised crime with commercial relevance. Control Risks 9/11/2020 Report Social Media and Community-Oriented Policing: Examining the Organizational Image Construction of Municipal Police on Twitter and Facebook Municipal police departments across the United States are under pressure to strengthen relationships with the communities they serve, reinvigorating a discussion about enhancing the community orientation of the police. Social media is recommended as one way to improve community relationships, but is the social media content posted by police departments community-oriented? Is that the type of content they wish to project? By integrating organizational image construction from communication studies with the study of policing, this research compares what municipal police departments intend to convey on social media with the content that they post. Managers of social media accounts emphasized the value of providing transparency and humanizing officers while social media content reveals efforts to delicately balance crime-fighting and community-oriented identities. This balance varies by agency size, jurisdiction, and platform, suggesting that the pressures governing image-making activities must be further examined in local context. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 9/11/2020 Research article “Society Wants to See A True Victim”: Police Interpretations of Victims of Sexual Violence Despite attempts to rectify the injustices experienced by victims of sexual violence within the criminal justice system, unfounded rates for sexual violence remain high and many victims continue to feel disempowered and voiceless. In this context, police officers wrestle with how to support victims, while protecting those who may be falsely accused and grappling with deeply imbedded cultural beliefs about who constitutes a “true” victim. In the current article, we draw on interviews with officers working in Internet Child Exploitation, sex crimes, and child abuse units across 10 Canadian police service organizations to understand how police interpret and respond to child, youth, and adult victims of sex crimes. We unpack the range of interpretations of victims, explore if and how interpretations of victims translate into police perceptions of their interactions with victims, and their interpretations of the possible outcomes that can be offered in the investigation. We highlight the difficulties officers encounter as they strive to balance their occupational role with victims’ needs. We argue that police interpretations of sexual violence and sexual violence victims are shaped by the officer’s adherence to or rejection of understandings of the “ideal victim”. Feminist Criminology - Registration at source 9/11/2020 Research article Home Office to end gun loophole but campaigners urge more action The risk from 26,000 vintage firearms could be reduced under government plans to close a loophole but campaigners say ministers haven't gone far enough. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/11/2020 News «278627872788278927902791279227932794Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
