Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103725 total results. Showing results 56101 to 56120 «280228032804280528062807280828092810Next ›Last » Calls to stop NSW police trial of national facial recognition system over lack of legal safeguards AUSTRALIA: New South Wales police officers are testing out the federal government’s controversial facial recognition system to access passport photos as part of criminal investigations, despite legislation governing its use not yet passing parliament. The Guardian 30/6/2021 News WA police to carry overdose treatment drug AUSTRALIA: About 300 West Australian police will become the first in the country to be deployed with Naloxone, a drug used to provide emergency first aid to people suffering from an opioid overdose. Mandurah Mail (Australia) 30/6/2021 News Getting a clear picture: procuring the right surveillance equipment for police aviation NEW ZEALAND: Mandy Langfield spoke to police aviators about their choices for onboard equipment that pair crew and aircraft safety with enhancing their aerial law enforcement role Air Med and Rescue 30/6/2021 News IPCA reopens investigation into Shargin Stephens police shooting NEW ZEALAND: The police watchdog is reopening its inquiry into the 2016 police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 30/6/2021 News Kids’ crash pack collaboration NEW ZEALAND: Activity packs for kids involved in traffic collisions is now a growing initiative thanks to the collaborative efforts of a teacher and a Central District Highway Patrol Officer. New Zealand Police 30/6/2021 News More adults ‘could develop sexual interest in children unless big tech acts now’ The National Police Chiefs’ Council’s (NPCC) lead on child protection said he fears more people could develop a sexual interest in children unless the tech industry takes the scale of abuse on their platforms seriously. Police Professional 30/6/2021 News DCC Pippa Mills named preferred candidate for West Mercia Police chief constable Essex Police Deputy Chief Constable Pippa Mills has been named as the preferred candidate for chief constable of West Mercia Police. Police Professional 30/6/2021 News Double VPN takedown: NCA takes UK server of criminal network offline An international investigation involving the National Crime Agency has led to the takedown of DoubleVPN – the service used by cyber criminals around the world to mask their location and identities online. National Crime Agency (NCA) 30/6/2021 News Tech giants putting profit ahead of child safety, warns outgoing police chief Chief Constable Simon Bailey will use his final speech as a serving officer to hit out at tech giants like Facebook. The Standard 30/6/2021 News Social media: Norfolk Police chief issues child abuse warning The outgoing Norfolk Chief Constable has urged shareholders to hold social media firms to account to protect children from online abuse. BBC 30/6/2021 News Burglar who fled UK escaped arrest by British and French police in border jurisdiction farce A burglar who raided a pub then fled to a ferry escaped being arrested in a farce over who had jurisdiction. The Scottish Sun 30/6/2021 News Police body cameras may provide the best evidence – but need much better regulation While the potential evidential benefits of police body-worn cameras are increasingly clear, inconsistencies in their use and oversight threaten to limit their positive impact; Griffith University Lecturers Robyn Blewer and Ronald Behlau believe regulation leading to more effective, consistent use, coupled with independent oversight, is the way forward. Policing Insight 30/6/2021 Feature, Opinion Staffing the Force: Police Staff in England and Wales’ Experiences of Working Through A Covid-19 Lockdown This online survey (N = 2365) examined the experiences of (non-sworn/non-warranted) staff serving in police forces in England and Wales during the March to July COVID-19 virus lockdown in the UK. Particular attention was paid to staff working from home, those able to partially work from home and those who remained at work in their usual police location. Home working staff were generally less stressed than those remaining partially or totally at their work location. Public interacting staff were particularly stressed. Regression analyses found that for all staff, irrespective of location, tiredness and finding work more difficult were implicated in increased stress. For those remaining at their place of work homeschooling and lacking preparedness for another lockdown were additional stressors. The importance of feeling valued is discussed. Some recommendations are offered in the light of these findings including the concept of moral injury repair. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 30/6/2021 Research article Exploring Strategic Perspectives on the Special Constabulary This article explores senior and strategic perspectives on the volunteer Special Constabulary in England and Wales, based on 38 interviews with senior police leaders. The strategic context and leadership of Special Constabularies represents an overlooked element of police leadership, given the scale and potential of volunteer officers to impact upon policing delivery and reform. The paper identifies tension between a traditional strategic paradigm that frames bounded expectations of the role of Special Constables, emphasising differences between them and their paid counterparts, and considerations of police reform which prompt different thinking in respect of practice, identity and integration of volunteer officers. Police Journal 30/6/2021 Research article Understanding Moral Injury and Belief Change in the Experiences of Police Online Child Sex Crime Investigators: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Little is known about the psychological and physiological impacts of moral injury within organizational contexts such as Internet Child Abuse Teams (hereafter abbreviated to ICAT), who are repeatedly exposed to trauma through viewing and grading graphic images of children being sexually abused. The aims of the current research were to explore the key features of, and contributing factors to, moral injury and trauma as experienced by Internet Child Abuse Teams, how these manifested and how these factors can be mitigated. Six participants were recruited from ICATs located at two police constabularies. Data were gathered using semi-structured interviews and analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings indicated that the moral injury experienced by the participants was predominantly attributable to repeated exposure to traumatising images, with too little decompression time. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 30/6/2021 Research article The Effect of Public Surveillance Cameras on Crime Clearance Rates Much research has examined the crime reduction benefits of public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, suggesting that cameras may not deter enough crime to justify their cost. Another benefit of CCTV though is its utility in investigations and in clearing cases, which has been much less studied. Using the data of public surveillance cameras and case clearances in Dallas, Texas, along with a pre-post-research design, we examine the efficacy that public CCTV cameras increase case clearance rates. We find that cases closer to cameras did have an increased clearance rate after the cameras were installed. But the effects faded quite quickly in space and were mostly limited to thefts. While our estimates here suggest the cameras are likely not cost-effective in terms of increasing clearances, it suggests there is potential to be more targeted in camera placement that might provide better justification for their (limited) use. Journal of Experimental Criminology - Registration at source 30/6/2021 Research article Tidying Up A Few Misconceptions Around Evidence-Based Policing: Reply to Staller and Koerner (2021) In this piece we reply to a commentary from Staller and Koerner on our work entitled, #Defund or #Re-Fund? Re-Examining Bayley’s Blueprint for Police Reform. In short, we agree on the necessity of reflexivity within policing research and the area of evidence-based policing more specifically, but also see this reply as an opportunity to clarify some misconceptions around evidence-based policing and what it means to be “evidence-based.” More specifically, we touch upon the flexibility of evidence-based policing to be implemented in tandem with other reform approaches, the value of experiential knowledge and qualitative methods within evidence-based policing, and the confounding of evidence and evidence-based. We conclude on the point of reflexivity and put out a call for follow-up studies that examine the implications of evaluated police practices. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice - Registration at source 30/6/2021 Research article Calgary police receive more complaints, close more complaint files in 2020 CANADA: More police conduct complaints have come into the professional standards section (PSS) of the Calgary Police Service. But more of those complaints have been resolved this year, as well. Global News (Canada) 30/6/2021 News Police officer assessed by fake psychologist after complaining of sexual harassment CANADA: Const. Kimberly Cadarette was given a copy of what she alleges is a fraudulent report by Ottawa Police Service CBC News (Canada) 30/6/2021 News Publicans and gardaí put in a ‘precarious position’over laws REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: THE majority of publicans are applying for licences to serve alcohol outdoors in order to be compliant with legislation. The Southern Star 30/6/2021 News «280228032804280528062807280828092810Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
