Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 97966 total results. Showing results 60961 to 60980 «304530463047304830493050305130523053Next ›Last » Bioterrorism: Capacity building and training A major part of our efforts is the facilitation of targeted training for law enforcement and relevant national agencies on how to prevent, prepare and respond to a bioterrorist attack. Our capacity building and training activities not only serve to establish collaboration on the national and regional levels, but also seek to promote a multi-agency approach. This will strengthen cooperation among law enforcement bodies and other sectors, thereby making it easier to share information, establish common practices and coordinate joint responses INTERPOL 15/6/2020 News Communicating With Purpose: Image Work, Social Media, and Policing Police services have substantially increased their use of social media in everyday police work. Few researchers have directly asked police services about the purpose their social media accounts serve. Through in-depth interviews conducted with police personnel overseeing police services’ social media sites in Canada, this article examines the reasons provided by police services for creating and operating their social media sites. We argue that the police utilize social media to communicate an image of police that demonstrates effectiveness and an openness to engaging with the public. We also explore the challenges that come with this type of image work. Police Journal - Registration at source 15/6/2020 Research article ‘We must use this moment to look at what more we can do to remove injustice and racial disparity from our society’ Hardyal Dhindsa, police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Derbyshire and the only BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) PCC in England and Wales, speaks out following the death of George Floyd Police Professional - Subscription at source 15/6/2020 Feature, Opinion Federation calls for a blanket ban on protests during the pandemic The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) has called for all large gatherings and protests to be banned to prevent officers being placed at risk of contracting coronavirus. Police Professional 15/6/2020 News Police brutality sparked mass protest in the US, but it’s time for Scotland to take a look at racism closer to home Darnella Frazier, a 17-year-old high school student, had been taking her nine-year-old cousin to a food store near their home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when she encountered George Floyd being restrained by police. She turned on her phone and began to film what happened, as Floyd was dragged to the ground. Holyrood Magazine 15/6/2020 News Effects of Police Body‐worn Cameras on Citizen Compliance and Cooperation: Findings From A Quasi‐randomized Controlled Trial This study tests the effect of body‐worn cameras (BWCs) on stopped drivers’ perceptions of complying with police directives, obeying traffic laws, and cooperating with the police. A quasi‐randomized controlled trial was conducted with drivers stopped at routine traffic checkpoints. Drivers in the treatment group encountered police officers wearing BWCs, and drivers in the control group encountered police officers without BWCs. Surveys were administered after the stop. Findings suggest motorists exposed to BWC officers reported significantly stronger agreement with compliance with police directives, obedience toward traffic laws, and assistance with police duties. Further analysis indicates BWCs generate indirect impacts on specific citizen compliance mediated through improvements in procedural justice, as well as indirect impacts on general compliance and cooperation mediated through improvements in both police legitimacy and procedural justice. Criminology and Public Policy 15/6/2020 Research article Procedural Justice and Legal Compliance In 2017, we published an essay (Nagin & Telep, 2017) that challenged the widely held view that research had plausibly demonstrated that procedurally just treatment of citizens by police increased the citizen’s willingness to comply with the law and thereby reduced crime rates. This article updates Nagin and Telep (2017) with new evidence that has appeared since its publication, while exploring in more depth our critiques of the existing procedural justice evidence base. Overall, we reach a similar conclusion concerning the impact of procedurally just treatment on crime but with the qualification that the rapid growth in the literature offers some encouraging evidence on the effectiveness of procedural justice training in affecting officer’s attitudes and the effectiveness of community policing infused with elements of procedural justice in improving citizen perceptions of police. Research on body‐worn cameras also provides indirect support that respectful police–citizen interactions have salutary impacts. We also set out a revisionist perspective on procedural justice that emphasizes the social value of procedural justice in its own right but also makes more modest predictions about impacts on legal compliance. Criminology and Public Policy 15/6/2020 Research article Chair calls for large protests to be banned The National Chair has released the following statement after the weekend protests during which police officers were injured. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 15/6/2020 News Coronavirus and police drone use The police have an important role to play at the time of a pandemic when social distancing and self-isolation are so important. However, any action they take must be proportionate, transparent and, above all, lawful. Anything else will erode public confidence in the police and make their job more difficult. Law Gazette 15/6/2020 News Hong Kong security law will not be retroactive – Chinese official Hong Kong’s national security legislation will not punish people retroactively, a senior Chinese official said on Monday, touching on a key question raised by local residents, diplomats and foreign investors over the controverisal law. Reuters 15/6/2020 News Rayshard Brooks police shooting was homicide, says medical examiner Medical examiner concludes that Mr Brook’s suffered two gun shot wounds after Wendy’s shooting The Independent 15/6/2020 News Scottish Police look to data virtualisation The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) is planning to adopt a data virtualisation solution to improve its use of unstructured data. UKAuthority.com 15/6/2020 News PCC Jeff Cuthbert says people can spot signs of abuse The Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent is urging residents to learn how to spot the signs of physical, emotional, and financial abuse of older people. South Wales Argus 15/6/2020 News Crimes fall by more than 50 per cent during lockdown Crime in Oxford has fallen by more than 50 per cent since lockdown. Oxford Mail 15/6/2020 News Rayshard Brooks: Atlanta police chief quits after unarmed black man shot dead In the half hour before he was shot dead outside a fast food restaurant in Atlanta, Rayshard Brooks acknowledged having “a few drinks” and tried to persuade two white police officers to let him “just go home”. The Times - Subscription at source 15/6/2020 News Police Scotland support ‘back door’ plan for new anti-hate bill Police have supported the effective “back door” reintroduction of botched anti-bigotry laws that targeted football fans. The Times - Subscription at source 15/6/2020 News Kenya: Police brutality in the battle against coronavirus in Mathare Africa Eye investigates the impact of the deadly coronavirus in Mathare, one of Kenya's poorest settlements. BBC 15/6/2020 Analysis, Feature Christian Brückner refuses to discuss Madeleine McCann case until police show ‘proof’ The paedophile suspected of murdering Madeleine McCann will refuse to answer questions because prosecutors must produce proof he was involved in her disappearance, his lawyer says. The Times - Subscription at source 15/6/2020 News Let’s not expand ‘hate crime’ even further The man listens carefully to the voice of the officer on the phone. He is being warned. While the man has (legally speaking) done no wrong, he has thought wrong — and the authorities have noticed. Not a scene from the pages of Nineteen Eighty-Four, but from a Tesco car park in Humberside, where last year the former policeman Harry Miller took a call from a PC on account of some “transphobic” jokes he had retweeted (example: “I was assigned Mammal at Birth, but my orientation is Fish. Don’t mis-species me.”) The Times - Subscription at source 15/6/2020 Feature, Opinion Spare a thought for our hard-pressed police Ordinary officers are on the front line of our increasingly fractious locked-down nation and get precious little thanks The Times - Subscription at source 15/6/2020 Feature, Opinion «304530463047304830493050305130523053Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
