Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103123 total results. Showing results 56241 to 56260 «280928102811281228132814281528162817Next ›Last » Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Mental Health and Crisis Intervention: Understanding Preparedness to Respond to Community Members in Crisis The lack of robust mental health programs throughout the USA has resulted in police frequently being responsible for responding to calls about people with mental illness who are in crisis. Working with people with mental illness as offenders or as individuals needing emergency assistance is a regular part of the job for many in law enforcement, yet specialized training is not a regular part of most academy or in-service training curricula. Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs consist of a 40-h training for police and mental health personnel. The programs teach officers about mental illness, its causes and symptoms, and focuses on de-escalation tactics and use of available community resources as alternatives to criminal justice outcomes for calls. The current study explores officers’ feelings of preparedness to work with community members with mental illness and their levels of endorsement of mental health stigma. Researchers surveyed police from nine different local departments in southern New Jersey. Half of the surveyed officers completed CIT training, allowing for comparisons between officers who were trained and those who were not. Results indicate that the CIT-trained officers were more likely to endorse different types of mental health stigma than non-trained officers, but those who were CIT-trained reported feeling better prepared for calls involving people with mental illness. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 3/6/2021 Research article Correlates of Perceptions of Police Legitimacy: Do Perceptions of Neighborhood Crime Matter? Police legitimacy promotes trust and cooperation between members of the public and the police. Because the police require cooperation from the public to prevent and solve crimes, having high levels of legitimacy is an important asset for them. Researchers have explored policing strategies as well as individual and neighborhood characteristics that explain levels of police legitimacy. However, no study has explored whether perceived neighborhood crimes affect perceptions of police legitimacy. This study addresses this gap in the literature by analyzing the effect that perceiving four types of neighborhood crime as a problem had on levels of police legitimacy among 1773 respondents from a city in the Appalachians. Results obtained from a series of Ordinary Least Squares models indicate that perceptions of neighborhood crime have no significant effect on police legitimacy once police performance is accounted for. Research and policy implications are discussed. International Journal of Police Science & Management - Registration at source 3/6/2021 Research article AI-driven CCTV upgrades are coming to the ‘world’s most watched’ streets – will they make Britain safer? Already referred to as ‘the most surveilled nation on Earth’, the UK looks set to invest in more CCTV through a funding boost to the Safer Streets initiative; but Professor William Webster of Stirling University believes that expanding the existing disparate and fragmented CCTV ecosystem neglects the wider societal change required for women to feel safer in public places. Policing Insight 3/6/2021 Feature, Opinion MPS officers attacked while attending scene of shooting The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says several of its officers came under attack while attending the scene of a shooting and stabbing in Brixton, South London last night (June 2). Police Professional 3/6/2021 News Seattle police under fire after approving trial of high-tech ‘Batman lasso’ to trap suspects USA: Seattle police have come under fire after approving the trial of a high-tech lasso that claims to allow officers to safely detain non-compliant suspects. According to KOMO News, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) recently approved pilot field testing of the BolaWrap “remote handcuffs”, which can be launched at people from a distance. The device is an eight-feet-long cord that is attached with two barbed hooks and is deployed like a lasso, wrapping around a person to bind their arms and legs to their body.The company that owns the product says the wrap can be used on “non-compliant subjects in mental crisis and drug-impaired subjects” who “are often incapable of comprehending commands of officers”. “BolaWrap enables officers to safely and humanely take subjects into custody without injury to get them the help they need,” Wrap Technologies’ website says. The Independent - Registration at source 3/6/2021 News Law enforcement and reconciliation: The human dimension of examining past injustice Later this month the Cumberland Lodge Police Conference will focus on law enforcement and reconciliation, and how to address the complex issues around past harms; Met Police Assistant Commissioner Robert Beckley, currently leading the Operation Resolve investigation into the Hillsborough Disaster, highlights some of the challenges in balancing calls for sanctions, retribution and formal accountability, with the importance of learning, understanding and healing. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 3/6/2021 Feature, Opinion Minister promises law to test gardaí for drugs The justice minister has promised legislation to allow for the drug testing of gardaí, a day after the force announced it wanted to begin testing in six months. The Times 3/6/2021 News Police shelters planned to give dignity to victims of disasters Police Scotland is planning to order several shelters where victims of a “mass fatality incident” could be identified. The Times - Subscription at source 3/6/2021 News Racism in Met Police ‘worse now than 20 years ago’, former top cop says Racism in the Met Police has worsened over the past two decades, a former senior Asian officer has said as she made a blistering attack on its leader Dame Cressida Dick. Metro 2/6/2021 News Garda representative bodies express concerns over random drug tests for gardaí REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The President of the Garda Representative Association (GRA) has said that drug testing of gardaí must be “carried out in a fair, measured, balanced and appropriate manner without infringing on members’ individual rights.” Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 2/6/2021 News Gang Intelligence Centre leadership concerns revealed in document release NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand's Gang Intelligence Centre has been blighted by poor leadership and has been struggling to reduce the harm caused by organised crime. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 2/6/2021 News Taser use will automatically activate body cameras worn by St. Thomas police CANADA: St. Thomas Police officers are now wearing technology that will automatically turn on a body-worn camera when a conducted energy device (CED), also known as a TASER, is deployed. CBC News (Canada) 2/6/2021 News Taskforce set up to stop ‘most severe’ child sexual abuse images and videos being shared online A new taskforce has been set up that will take ‘digital fingerprints’ of millions of child abuse images so that they can be identified and removed by companies and organisations around the world. Police Professional 2/6/2021 News ‘Hundreds unlawfully prosecuted’ under coronavirus laws, claim campaigners Campaigners claim “hundreds of people have been wrongly charged and prosecuted” under coronavirus-related emergency laws. Police Professional 2/6/2021 News Media narrative on stop search “damaging to community relations” Media narrative on stop and search is harmful to black community relations and recruitment, says a senior Metropolitan Police officer. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/6/2021 News Police want to give domestic abuse victims a voice, ‘feel empowered’ and get closure – by speaking to face-to-face to their tormentors Police want to give domestic abuse victims a voice, 'feel empowered' and get closure - by giving them to chance to speak face-to-face to their tormentors. In a new initiative, launched by Greater Manchester Police, people who have been subject to abuse will be able to meet the people who committed crimes against then- or explain how the crimes have impacted their lives in a letter. Manchester Evening News 2/6/2021 News Exploring the Roles and Function of Police Search and Rescue Teams in Canadian Agencies Police search and rescue (SAR) teams play a vital part in the successful location of lost and missing persons; however, they remain an understudied policing component. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to improve and deepen scholarly knowledge of the police SAR aspects of missing persons cases. Specifically, this article aims to provide first insights into the roles and function of SAR teams in Canadian police services. With this research, we can begin to formulate a better understanding of their utility in police missing persons work. Through a thematic analysis of 34 in-depth, qualitative interviews with police SAR team members from 13 police services across Canada, we explore how SAR teams operate within police services and outline the varying roles police personnel comprise in these teams. Results reveal that police SAR teams operate with several distinct roles that have different functions within the larger police hierarchy. Furthermore, findings show that police SAR personnel are fulfilling a host of responsibilities in these teams while operating as a secondary duty, yet are called upon at any time and are required to respond immediately. These findings and their implications for police missing persons work are then discussed. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 2/6/2021 Research article Morality, Self-Control, and Perception of the Police Among Chinese Inmates This study contributes to the scholarship on perception of the police by testing a theoretical interaction between morality and self-control, expanding the notion of morality to include both proscriptive and prescriptive morality, and investigating institutionalized populations. Survey data from a rare, large sample of inmates from three Chinese prisons indicate that the prisoners hold strikingly negative sentiments toward the police. While self-control does not affect inmates’ perception of the police after controlling for morality variables, both proscriptive and prescriptive morality are positively related to inmates’ attitudes toward the police. Furthermore, the positive effect of prescriptive morality on inmates’ perceptions of the police increases as the level of self-control elevates. Proscriptive morality and self-control, meanwhile, do not interplay in shaping such perceptions. Findings of the study have meaningful implications for using criminological theories to explain justice perceptions. Asian Journal of Criminology - Registration at source 2/6/2021 Research article Joint operations: Protecting against the terrorist use of drones The fast pace of development in drone technology represents an ever-evolving range of threats – particularly in the hands of terrorists; Policing Insight’s Andrew Staniforth looks at the new counter-UAV training for first responders being delivered as part of DroneWISE, and how the project is helping to improve co-ordination and co-operation between countries and agencies. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 2/6/2021 Feature, Innovation Racism in MPS ‘worse now’ than after Macpherson Inquiry, says former senior officer An Asian former senior Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officer has claimed that institutional racism still exists in the force, and is “worse now” than after the Macpherson Inquiry more than 20 years ago. Police Professional 2/6/2021 News «280928102811281228132814281528162817Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
