Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 102903 total results. Showing results 59021 to 59040 «294829492950295129522953295429552956Next ›Last » Nationwide police clampdown on mobile phone use begins today All UK police forces will today begin a clampdown on mobile phone use while driving which will run until February 21st. VisorDown 8/2/2021 News Policing By Social Skills: the Importance of Empathy and Appropriate Emotional Expressions in the Recruitment, Selection and Education of Danish Police Officers Motivated politically by an interest in a friendlier, more service-minded police force, the Danish police have changed profoundly in recent decades. With a relatively low crime rate, strong democratic traditions, and exceptionally high levels of trust in the police, Denmark offers an interesting case for examining how a service-minded police force is created. The ideal, professional Danish police officer is supposed to engage in equal dialogue with citizens. When recruiting and educating police officers, considerable emphasis is placed on assessing and developing social skills, empathy in particular. Analysing interviews, fieldwork and documents, focussing on recruitment, selection, education and the assessment of Danish police recruits, the article explores how the shift towards service-mindedness is sought achieved, as well as some of the challenges and tensions involved in pursuing this ideal. Theoretically, the analysis draws on Hochschild’s concepts of feeling rules and emotional labour together with Illouz’s perspectives on the demands for communicative and emotional skills in modern working life. These let us understand modern policing as regulated and performed through emotional and embodied practices. Policing and Society - Registration at source 8/2/2021 Research article Ethnic Bias in Restorative Processes? An Analysis of Access to the Police-Based National Danish Vom-Programme In this article, possible ethnic bias in access to the national Danish police-based Victim Offender Mediation (VOM) programme is investigated. The analyses of this project show that the VOM personnel informants believe that ethnic minority offenders are underrepresented in this VOM programme. Also, numerous examples of essentialist views on ethnicity and culture emerge among police personnel in the interview and observation data. Yet interestingly, the national VOM participation rates in penal cases analysed for this article show that while young male ethnic minority immigrants are underrepresented in VOM some years, young male ethnic minority descendants are actually overrepresented in VOM meetings. Police Journal - Registration at source 8/2/2021 Research article We analysed almost 500,000 police reports of domestic violence: Mental health was an issue Dr George Karystianis and Professor Tony Butler of the University of New South Wales have used data mining techniques to analyse almost half a million police reports of domestic violence, revealing that mental health issues play a key role in the crime for both victims and perpetrators. Policing Insight 8/2/2021 Analysis, Feature Tech giants are responsible for online child abuse, Chief Constable says Chief Constable Simon Bailey has said the internet is not a safe space for children and has urged parents to monitor their youngsters online The Telegraph - Subscription at source 8/2/2021 News Paedophiles more scared of online vigilantes than of us, say police Paedophiles are more afraid of online vigilante groups than they are of the police and the strategy of arresting sex offenders is failing to stem a tidal wave of abuse, senior officers have warned. The Times - Subscription at source 8/2/2021 News Sheep found as police raid Bacup drinking party Police have admitted they were startled to find two sheep at an illegal drinking party in Lancashire overnight. BBC 7/2/2021 News Police failings led to deaths of 31 women at hands of domestic abusers Police and other agencies’ failure to tackle domestic violence led to the deaths of 31 women, a report reveals amid calls for abusers to be treated like terrorists. The Telegraph - Subscription at source 7/2/2021 News Covid-19 cluster found at Brussels’ 101 police centre BELGIUM: Many employees of the Communication and Information Centre (CIC) of the Brussels-Capital Region, which hosts the police’s 101 hotline, are in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19. According to the federal police, which announced the announcement on Saturday in a press release confirming earlier media reports, this will not affect people trying to seek emergency assistance. The Brussels Times (Belgium) 7/2/2021 News Black and blue: the secret lives of BAME police officers In 1990, BAME police officers gathered to discuss racism at work, sharing what each had thought were uniquely harrowing experiences. They explain how things have improved – and got worse The Guardian 7/2/2021 News Police in critical functions will be vaccinated from mid-February BELGIUM: People working in critical positions in the police force will be vaccinated against Covid-19 from mid-February, as a part of Belgium’s updated vaccination strategy. The Brussels Times (Belgium) 7/2/2021 News Free provision of vaccines is preventing criminals from infiltrating rollout, say UK police The UK’s rapid vaccine rollout is being protected from the threat of serious organised crime and corruption by the structure and principles of the NHS, senior police officers say. The Guardian 7/2/2021 News One-in-five policing divisions see drop in garda numbers REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: More than 1 in 5 Garda divisions around the country had fewer gardaà at the end of 2020 compared to the start of the year, even though the overall size of the force grew by almost 2% over the same period. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 7/2/2021 News PSNI ‘crisis in confidence’ among nationalists, says Michelle O’Neill NI's deputy first minister has said there is a "crisis in confidence" in policing among nationalists over the PSNI's handling of a commemoration event on Friday. BBC 7/2/2021 News Building Trust in Digital Policing: A Scoping Review of Community Policing Apps Perceptions of police trustworthiness are linked to citizens’ willingness to cooperate with police. Trust can be fostered by introducing accountability mechanisms, or by increasing a shared police/citizen identity, both which can be achieved digitally. Digital mechanisms can also be designed to safeguard, engage, reassure, inform, and empower diverse communities. We systematically scoped 240 existing online citizen-police and relevant third-party communication apps, to examine whether they sought to meet community needs and policing visions. We found that 82% required registration or login details, 55% of those with a reporting mechanism allowed for anonymous reporting, and 10% provided an understandable privacy policy. Police apps were more likely to seek to reassure, safeguard and inform users, while third-party apps were more likely to seek to empower users. As poorly designed apps risk amplifying mistrust and undermining policing efforts, we suggest 12 design considerations to help ensure the development of high quality/fit for purpose Police/Citizen apps. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 7/2/2021 Research article Gardai win trust of sex workers hit by Covid pandemic Gardai say there has been a substantial reduction in the number of online advertisements for sexual services during the Covid-19 lockdowns. There are typically about 800 ads for male and female sex workers in Ireland but this has dropped to 400 or so during the level five lockdowns. The Sunday Times - Subscription at source 7/2/2021 News Police underbelly exacts too high a price AUSTRALIA: Like other emergency services, police work, despite being vital, is often thankless. And as The Sun-Herald reveals today, the job itself and the internal culture of the NSW Police Force can be punishing in ways that demand the state government’s intervention. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 6/2/2021 Feature, Opinion ‘Fish swimming amongst sharks’: Why so many police are quitting the force AUSTRALIA: Hundreds of police officers who love their jobs are leaving the force because of its impact on their health, and it’s costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year to compensate and replace them. NSW Police officer turnover has almost doubled since 2015, with 728 officers leaving the force last year as 1000 new recruits were sworn in. The NSW government committed $583 million over four years to deliver 1500 new police officers in 2018. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 6/2/2021 Analysis, Feature NI police chief vows not to quit amid arrest controversy Simon Byrne apologised for the conduct of officers involved in an incident that saw a Troubles survivor handcuffed. Belfast Telegraph 6/2/2021 News South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire successful in raising precepts Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioners have secured a police precept increase to fill the funding gap the government's uplift doesn't cover. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/2/2021 News «294829492950295129522953295429552956Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
