Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 102783 total results. Showing results 58301 to 58320 «291229132914291529162917291829192920Next ›Last » Covid rules on groups gathering outdoors ‘not policeable’ ahead of lockdown easing Police no longer wish to enforce Covid rules to break up groups gathering outdoors in the month before the restrictions are eased, rank and file officers said on Sunday night. The Telegraph - Subscription at source 28/2/2021 News Additional digital services create easy and secure link between police and community AUSTRALIA: The NSW Police Force has announced new advancements to its Community Portal, including a new process for National Police Checks, with requests for information and reporting now available online. Individuals will be able to apply for a National Police Check directly from the NSW Police Force. The streamlined digital service provides an end to end online process from application submission, identity verification, payment and the issuing of a branded, digital National Police Certificate within one hour. This is in addition to a range of new services that were launched on the user-friendly online Community Portal in September 2020, including minor crime reporting. New South Wales Police Force 28/2/2021 News Police Chief Evan Bray says handgun ban not needed in Regina CANADA: Regina police chief Evan Bray says there is no need for a handgun ban to be established in the city. Speaking this week at a Board of Police Commissioners meeting, Bray said it is the opinion of the Regina Police Service that doing that wouldn’t accomplish much when it comes to reducing crime.. 620CKRM (Canada) 28/2/2021 News West Mids Police extend roll out of drug overdose antidote The roll out by West Midlands Police of a lifesaving antidote that can prevent drug overdose deaths is taking its next step. Officers are using naloxone as a nasal spray that can temporarily reverse the deadly effects that can be caused by drugs like heroin, methadone, morphine and fentanyl. It can buy time until paramedics arrive. Coventry Observer 28/2/2021 News Government seeks to retain lockdown limits on protests Priti Patel obtains advice on ensuring post-Covid demonstrations do not impact on ‘rights of others to go about their business’ The Guardian 28/2/2021 News Senior garda lands top policing role at Interpol and will lead world-wide fight against Covid-related crime A senior garda with a background in counter-terrorism and fraud investigation has been appointed to one of the top law enforcement positions in the world. Detective Inspector Rory Corcoran has been announced as Assistant Director of Interpol’s Organised and Emerging Crime directorate (OEC), at its headquarters in Lyon, France, where he has been seconded from An Garda Síochána for the past two and a half years. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 28/2/2021 News The Impact of Crisis Intervention Team Response, Dispatch Coding, and Location on the Outcomes of Police Encounters With Individuals With Mental Illnesses in Chicago The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model has been implemented in over 3,000 communities across the USA. Research to date has shown beneficial results in terms of officers’ knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, stigma, and force preferences. This study aimed to broaden the lens on the implementation context of CIT to examine whether factors in the environment and response process affect how calls are resolved. This study focused on several factors—CIT response, call location, and upstream decisions to pre-identify calls as mental health-related—that may impact call outcomes. Our findings suggest that CIT response, dispatch coding, and the places where calls originate play a role in shaping outcomes. More research is needed to unpack the effects of this wider CIT implementation environment. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 28/2/2021 Research article APCC Chair Paddy Tipping responds to the Covid-19 vaccine rollout second phase announcement Mr Tipping said: “Police and Crime Commissioners have pushed hard for frontline officers and staff to be prioritised in the next phase of the vaccination programme. No-one wants to jump the queue over those most at risk - it was right that the most vulnerable in society were protected first - but we feel strongly that, of those who are yet to receive a first jab, police officers are now among the most vulnerable. Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) 28/2/2021 News Surrey PCC welcomes news of potential traveller transit site A potential transit site has been identified to direct travellers to in Surrey. Police and Crime Commissioner David Munro has called it a 'step in the right direction' for the county's residents. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 28/2/2021 News To expand women’s prisons is idiotic and inhumane. We should phase them out The government has overturned the commitment to reduce the number of women in jail. This ignores how female offenders are very different from their male counterparts The Guardian 28/2/2021 Feature, Opinion Police urge Britons to follow lockdown rules as warm weather pulls crowds Public spaces such as beaches and parks busy as temperatures reach up to 15C in parts of the UK The Guardian 28/2/2021 News Pupils urged to tell police about kids in gangs as knife and drugs crime soars Children as young as 11 are being urged to become unofficial police informants and name peers at risk of becoming involved in knife crime, drugs and gangs. Express 28/2/2021 News Police forces are still unable to explain why they’re so racist According to a report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), “forces still do not fully understand the impact on individuals and communities of the use of police powers”. The report examined police use of force and stop and search against people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. The Canary 28/2/2021 News Voluntary Resignations From the Police Service: the Impact of Organisational and Occupational Stressors on Organisational Commitment The numbers of police officers in England and Wales who resigned voluntarily from the service have been increasing rapidly in recent years. Despite this, there has been scant attention paid to this issue academically or organisationally. Using the guiding framework of organisational commitment with its focus upon active institutional identification, this paper considers police officer decisions to resign voluntarily from the police service. It does this through an analysis of a survey distributed to police officers from one English force who had resigned voluntarily between November 2014 and June 2019. The findings demonstrate that resigning police officers highly value the occupation they have joined, the nature of their work, the opportunities for fulfilling public service ambitions and the satisfaction of working with policing colleagues as part of a team. The findings also indicate however that they are ultimately frustrated by the perceived inability of the organisation to manage the demands upon them and by a sense of organisational ‘injustice’ emanating from perceptions of a lack of ‘voice’, leadership, autonomy and support. This damages the exchange-based working relationship between officers and managers, causing a decline in affective organisational commitment. Consequently, these factors have a negative personal impact upon their physical and mental health and an impact upon their caring responsibilities and personal relationships outside of their working environment. Policing and Society 28/2/2021 Research article Performance Mechanisms Meet Professional Autonomy: Performance Management and Professional Discretion Within Police Investigation Departments As with other parts of the public sector, policing has had to confront the principles and processes attached to new public management. This paper examines the impact of police performance management on the ‘occupational professionalism’ of British policing actors with a particular focus on organisational units concerned with criminal investigation. Based on qualitative empirical research on two major police forces in England and Wales, the paper arrives at three main conclusions. First, there appears to be a clear impact of police performance management, with its instruments of standardised operational procedures, performance monitoring and strengthened internal accountability, on the professional autonomy given to police actors. This takes the form of what others have seen as a shift from ‘occupational professionalism’ to ‘organisational professionalism’. Second, despite this overall trend, tensions and professional rivalries remain between police frontline officers, supervisors and middle managers around the perceived virtues and practices of performance management. Policing and Society - Registration at source 28/2/2021 Research article Cocaine insights 2 – Cocaine: A spectrum of products INTERNATIONAL: The cocaine market presents a clear threat at global level. Well-defined locations of production in South America and large consumer markets in the Americas and Europe lead to trafficking routes from a circumscribed origin to specific, even if far-flung, destinations. [pdf] United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) 28/2/2021 Report The cocaine pipeline to Europe EUROPE: Over the past few years, the cocaine trade has enjoyed an unprecedented boom, fuelled by soaring production. [pdf] Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 28/2/2021 Report Gardai attacked in clashes with lockdown protesters Violent clashes involving anti-lockdown protesters broke out in Dublin city centre yesterday as fireworks and other missiles were thrown at gardai. One officer was injured and taken to hospital. There were 23 arrests, and 12 men and one woman were charged with public order offences at a special court hearing last night. The Sunday Times - Subscription at source 28/2/2021 News Covid-19: Police officers injured at Dublin anti-lockdown protest Three police officers have been injured after attacks during a demonstration against Covid-19 restrictions in the centre of Dublin. BBC 27/2/2021 News We can’t pretend that we can arrest our way to success with methamphetamine NEW ZEALAND: After 45 years knocking around the criminal justice scene in New Zealand it is hard not to be shocked at the meteoric rise in methamphetamine use, and the devastating effect that it has had on our population. We had seen a similar phenomenon with cannabis in the early ‘70s when possessory charges had gone from fewer than 200 in 1972 to more than 100,000 three years later, sparking new legislation. Poorly conceived, this legislation almost promoted criminal drug activity than controlled it, and really, has never controlled it. 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