Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100064 total results. Showing results 58901 to 58920 «294229432944294529462947294829492950Next ›Last » Breonna Taylor: Police officer sues shot black woman’s boyfriend A police officer involved in the fatal shooting of black woman Breonna Taylor has sued her boyfriend for emotional distress, assault and battery. BBC 31/10/2020 News Spain takes down terrorist cell recruiting online for the so-called Islamic State The alleged leaders of this cell feature among those arrested Europol 30/10/2020 News International operation targets trafficking of stolen motor vehicles An international operation supported by INTERPOL has highlighted the scale of motor vehicle crime in Europe, including the smuggling of stolen vehicles, spare parts and document fraud. INTERPOL 30/10/2020 News Resources to prepare for Election Day USA: Many organizations have produced guidance for law enforcement agencies about situations they are likely to face in the period leading up to Election Day, on Election Day, and possibly in the days that follow. This guidance includes state-by-state information about the laws governing certain situations and police legal authorities. The presence of armed individuals at polling locations and what constitutes voter intimidation are two key issues addressed by these resources. PERF has compiled a number of these resources below, along with excerpts of what they provide on key issues. Everything below that is underlined is a link to a resource. Police Executive Research Forum 30/10/2020 Feature College introduces taser training option for officers with CVD The College of Policing has established a new Taser training and assessment process allowing officers with colour vision deficiency (CVD) to apply to carry a taser. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 30/10/2020 News North Wales Police praised for promoting the use of Welsh North Wales Police has been praised for the positive and proactive approach the force takes to using and promoting the use of Welsh with the public and within the organisation. Police Professional 30/10/2020 News Leicestershire PCC sets 25 per cent diversity target for new recruits Leicestershire police and crime commissioner, Lord Willy Bach, has set his force a 25 per cent diversity target for new recruits. Police Professional 30/10/2020 News Warnings court case backlog could push justice system to ‘tipping point’ The backlog in criminal cases waiting to be dealt with by the courts risks overwhelming the justice system within four years unless action is taken, a study suggests. Police Professional 30/10/2020 News WMP chief criticised over domestic abuse comments West Midlands Police Chief Constable Dave Thompson has been heavily criticised for questioning whether the police service is always the best agency to deal with domestic abuse cases. Police Professional 30/10/2020 News Honours for officers and staff of Police Scotland Five individuals within Police Scotland have been recognised for exceptional and outstanding public service as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Police Scotland 30/10/2020 News PFEW lobbying results in Taser training option for officers with CVD Successful PFEW lobbying has resulted in a College of Policing U-Turn which will allow officers with Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) to apply for Taser training. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 30/10/2020 News Don’t blame the police for stop and search Given recent stories about the police putting your door in if you have more than six people over on Christmas day, it seems almost quaint to be talking about Stop and Search as an abuse of state power. Yet the release of statistics this week that show black people are nine times more likely to have this power used against them in the street, ought to give us pause for thought. The Spectator 30/10/2020 Feature, Opinion This is what it’s like to be a Black female police officer in the UK today "As a Black person in uniform you can be portrayed as a traitor – but that's not true" Cosmopolitan 30/10/2020 Feature, Opinion Police chief admits force ‘not likely’ to break up ‘minor Christmas parties’ The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson has laid out how his force is likely to respond to gatherings that breach Covid-19 rules this Christmas Mirror 30/10/2020 News Dyspraxia and I: When difference isn’t obvious Not all disability or difference is obvious; for Avon and Somerset Police Inspector Lee Moore, a diagnosis of dyspraxia more than 20 years into his police service explained some of the struggles he had faced from an early age and throughout his career, but also highlighted the positives that difference can bring. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 30/10/2020 Feature, Opinion Police Complaints and Discipline: Integrity, Lesson Learning, Independence and Accountability: Some Implications of the Reforms Under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 The Policing and Crime Act 2017 (PACA) aims to promote integrity within policing via a reformed police complaints and discipline process that focuses on lesson learning. Integrity and lesson learning are virtuous aspirations, but this paper queries the degree to which the reforms deliver them. Importantly, the analysis here provides a novel contribution to debates about lesson learning within the police by distinguishing lesson learning directed towards street-level officers from the accountability of police professional standards departments (PSDs) for how that is delivered. Focusing on the latter and drawing on the findings of the Chapman Review and a detailed analysis of police complaints statistics, it concludes that true lesson learning (from which increased integrity within forces can develop) requires increased external scrutiny of PSDs. In contrast, the analysis demonstrates that the PACA significantly increases PSDs’ de facto autonomy over the police complaints and discipline process and incorporates a shift in how independent oversight of police complaints is conceived. The paper borrows from Valverde’s suggested analytical framework to probe the underlying logic of the reforms, considering also the techniques they employ and the scale at which they operate. This reveals that the lesson learning agenda reframes expressions by citizens of mistreatment at the hands of the police as data upon which future policy might be based. In doing so, far from working to improve integrity, it may instead be ushering in a concerning biopolitical conception of policing which has the potential to exacerbate the worst features of police operational culture. Policing and Society - Registration at source 30/10/2020 Research article Courts backlog ‘tipping point’ for justice system The number of criminal cases waiting to be dealt with by Crown Courts threatens to overwhelm the justice system in England and Wales, a study suggests. BBC 30/10/2020 News The Effects of Intelligence and Personality on Performance in Simulated Interrogation Scenarios The paper explores the relationships between individual differences in intelligence and personality and the ability to extract critical information (and identify missing but required information) from a suspect’s brief sheet (i.e. model formulation) and develop a suitable line of questioning (i.e. approach strategizing) in interrogation scenarios. We hypothesised that cognitive flexibility, emotion management, low need for closure and rapport would all be predictors of these abilities. Two hundred and seventy-four participants of different backgrounds were exposed to two interrogation scenarios to assess model formation and approach strategizing abilities, as well as intelligence and personality tests. Benchmarks for performance were measured against two experienced interrogators and two psychologists’ calibrated performance. In terms of overall performance, only rapport and cognitive flexibility were significant positive predictors. Whereas only rapport was a positive predictor of approach strategizing, both rapport and cognitive flexibility were positive predictors of model formation. In conclusion, the data from the early stage of our project suggests that the examined factors should be carefully considered when training and selecting optimal interrogators. Though previous research has identified a number of individual differences in intelligence and personality that are important in demanding law-enforcement contexts, ours is the first to explore them with respect to effective interrogator performance. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 30/10/2020 Research article Mind the Gap! Decoupling Between Policy and Practice in the Policing of Illegal Wildlife Trade Despite numerous promises and pledges at national and international levels to confront what many acknowledge as a crisis, illegal trade in wild plants and animals continues to grow and diversify. Empirical research conducted in Norway and Uganda from 2013 to 2015 indicates that despite the different circumstances in which law enforcement operates in the two countries, policing agents face a number of comparable challenges. Drawing on institutional theory the paper argues that decoupling, that is, gaps between official policies and daily work activities within the policing organizations, compromises enforcement in both countries. Challenges stem from conflicting demands, poor resources and want of guidelines that oblige officers to prioritize the control of illegal wildlife trade in practice. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - Registration at source 30/10/2020 Research article 5G technology and the innovation impact for police use of drones Drones are already part of the policing toolkit, but the introduction of new 5G networks will significantly enhance their law enforcement use – as well as potentially posing a greater criminal threat; Policing Insight contributor Andrew Staniforth looks at the latest European project to identify and address the 5G drone challenges. 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