Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100394 total results. Showing results 56081 to 56100 «280128022803280428052806280728082809Next ›Last » Garda powers on dangerous weapons including knives to be reviewed as part of 2021 Justice Plan, McEntee announces REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Department of Justice is to review existing Garda powers on dangerous weapons including knives. The Irish Sun (Republic of Ireland) 22/2/2021 News Police Commissioner Andrew Coster wants to test ‘fit and proper’ licence criteria after it emerges 12 people on gang list can buy guns NEW ZEALAND: Questions from Act MP reveal that 12 people on national gang list can legally buy firearms, although Police Commissioner says work already underway to revoke firearms licence - if they are actually gang members - to create new case law. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 22/2/2021 News The definition of coercive control is crucial, domestic violence groups tell inquiry AUSTRALIA: While some experts in the domestic violence sector argue it's a matter of 'how and when' coercive control is criminalised in NSW, others are calling on all alternatives to be considered. SBS News (Australia) 22/2/2021 News NSW Police open digital forensics lab for cybercrime investigators AUSTRALIA: The New South Wales (NSW) Police Force in Australia has unveiled a digital forensics facility for Cybercrime Squad investigators. The purpose-built facility is the first of its kind in Australia and enables officers to securely conduct investigations into sophisticated technology-enabled crime. Homeland Security Today 22/2/2021 News Here’s why Montreal Police still don’t have body cams CANADA: In a meeting on December 9, 2020, the Montreal City Council voted down an amendment that would have funded body cameras for Montreal police officers. The defeat of the proposal — by a vote of 34 to 27 — was just the latest turn of events in the years-long, zigzagging effort to make the cameras part of the SPVM uniform. MTL Blog (Canada) 22/2/2021 News Police drone ‘worth its weight in gold’ as officers solve crimes from the air CANADA: 'Obviously, we don’t have the ability of having our own helicopter. This provides us that ability,' says Barrie sergeant Barrie Today (Canada) 22/2/2021 News After top female deputies leave, what’s next in the lengthy search for Toronto’s next police chief? CANADA: Shortly after it was given the rubber stamp by the Irish government earlier this month, Toronto police sent out a press release congratulating deputy police chief Shawna Coxon — second in command to the chief — for being named to a high-profile role as a commissioner in Ireland’s national police force. The same day, the city’s police board echoed the congrats to Coxon and also to deputy chief Barbara McLean, who has left the service on what’s expected to be a lengthy secondment to the Mass Casualty Commission, the inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia. Toronto Star (Canada) 22/2/2021 News Exposed: Sexism within Ottawa police CANADA: From casual sexism such as being called “fresh meat” to criminal allegations of sexual assault, CBC’s The Fifth Estate has found an entrenched culture of sexism within the Ottawa Police Service. CBC News (Canada) 22/2/2021 Feature Merseyside Police apologise over incorrect ‘offensive’ claim Merseyside Police has apologised for claiming "being offensive is an offence" as part of a campaign to encourage people to report hate crime. The force came under fire over the weekend after the message appeared on a billboard in Wirral. It has since clarified that while hate crime is an offence, "being offensive is not in itself an offence". BBC 22/2/2021 News Met Police: Racist attacks on officers double, new figures show Racist attacks on police officers nearly doubled in a year, according to new figures. More than 1,200 attacks on officers were linked to a "racial hate crime" in the 12 months up to November 2020, Met Police statistics show. BBC 22/2/2021 News Bedfordshire welcomes ban on unregulated care homes for children A ban on placing vulnerable children under the age of 16 into unregulated accommodation has been welcomed by the police. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 22/2/2021 News Public Policy Reform and Police Prevention Practice: A Journey Upstream? This article contributes to a growing body of research on the police reforms in Scotland. It examines the particular place given to prevention in public policy and its impact on police practice. We show how public policy reconfigured the place and purpose of prevention for the police, with a focus on safety, wellbeing, and the prevention of harm. The research draws on qualitative data collected in four areas as part of a 4-year evaluation of the police reforms. We refine a public health typology of prevention and operationalize it empirically for the first time to analyse cases of innovative practice. We distinguish a pattern of prevention practice heavily weighted towards secondary prevention, focused predominantly on issues of crime and disorder. In fewer cases, the police applied primary and tertiary prevention, with a focus on vulnerability and harm. Looking in detail at two cases, we illustrate the importance of collaboration for the police, which created opportunities and brought additional resources and expertise to support new prevention approaches which had a significant impact on effectiveness. The police realized collaborative advantage through common aims, trust-building, and leadership. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 22/2/2021 Research article Met Police: Racist attacks on officers double, new figures show Racist attacks on police officers nearly doubled in a year, according to new figures. BBC 22/2/2021 News Prejudicial Stereotyping and Police Interviewing Practices in England: An Exploration of Legal Representatives’ Perceptions Research studies suggest that at the initial stage of an investigation, negative stereotypes are triggered when officers make decisions concerning a suspect with their pre-existing racial/religious images for the group to which the suspect belongs. Such stereotyping is generally argued to be one of the major sources of partiality in criminal investigations. The present study examines the legal representatives’ perceptions of police interviewing practices when investigating suspects under caution. The present study conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with fifteen defence lawyers who had represented suspects from various ethnicities within England and Wales. The thematic analysis of interview transcripts revealed that (as perceived by the legal representatives) prejudicial stereotyping can influence police officers’ attitudes towards suspects from stigmatised communities. Additionally, prejudicial stereotyping was perceived to produce guilt presumption, self-fulfilling prophecies, and confirmation bias. These findings suggest that further training of police officers seems necessary to make them more aware of the implications of such prejudicial stereotyping to improve their investigation skills, and in turn, case outcomes, and community cohesion. Journal of Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism 22/2/2021 Research article Manchester Arena attack: Police ‘failed to co-operate’ in training Greater Manchester Police "left after doing their bit" in terror training exercises held prior to the Manchester Arena bombing, an inquiry has heard. BBC 22/2/2021 News Police should carry drugs overdose antidote, says senior officer NPCC’s drugs lead backs wider supply of naloxone after successful trials The Guardian 22/2/2021 News Merseyside Police apologise over incorrect ‘offensive’ claim Merseyside Police has apologised for claiming "being offensive is an offence" as part of a campaign to encourage people to report hate crime. BBC 22/2/2021 News Police forced to issue apology after claiming ‘being offensive’ is a crime Merseyside Police pictured posing beneath a public billboard that claimed 'being offensive is an offence' The Telegraph - Subscription at source 22/2/2021 News Open and Transparent Quality Mark: 39 OPCCs recognised with 2021 award A record number of offices of police and crime commissioners (OPCCs) have received the CoPaCC Open and Transparent Quality Mark for 2021, demonstrating impressive improvements in information transparency delivered via OPCC websites; Bernard Rix, CoPaCC Chief Executive and Publisher of Policing Insight, provides details of the OPCCs recognised for meeting the statutory requirements on openness and transparency. Policing Insight 22/2/2021 News Criminalising trespass will hurt Travellers most – but government proposals fail on their own terms Proposals by the UK Government to criminalise trespass look set to affect Travellers more than any other group; but Helen O’Nions, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, warns that the laws will contradict human rights legislation, lack support, and be very difficult to enforce. Policing Insight 22/2/2021 Feature, Opinion «280128022803280428052806280728082809Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
