Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 116009 total results. Showing results 62861 to 62880 «314031413142314331443145314631473148Next ›Last » The Role of Law Enforcement Agencies and the Use of It Tools For A Coordinate Response in Pandemic Crisis Management Pandemic crises are disruptive events that imply a threat to the health of citizens, and also to public safety. In order to provide an adequate response, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) organizations up to now had to adapt their structures, staffing conditions and competencies to the exceptional circumstances. At the same time, pandemics, such as COVID-19 that is currently a real scenario, require from LEAs to test their capabilities and thus to further identify their own gaps and get to know themselves better. The complexity of this kind of phenomena requires a coordinated and multidisciplinary response through Information Technology (IT) tools to mitigate the effects of pandemics. In this sense, our participation in the European H2020 STAMINA project: “Demonstration of intelligent decision support for pandemic crisis prediction and management within and across European borders” brings added value to our daily work as LEAs. The project implements a set of tools whose goal is twofold: improvement of management of information in all phases of the pandemic as well as improvement of response and coordination among all first responders involved in a pandemic. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Final written warning for Suffolk officer over inappropriate relationship A Suffolk Constabulary officer has been given a final written warning after attempting to form an inappropriate relationship with a vulnerable woman he came into contact with during the course of his duties. Police Professional 14/1/2022 News Hearing for alleged killer of Harry Dunn postponed The woman allegedly responsible for the death of British teenager Harry Dunn will no longer face a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court next week as previously planned. Police Professional 14/1/2022 News File sent to DPP over ex-senior garda in drug seizure case REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Former Garda superintendent John Murphy, 61, was charged with possessing cannabis worth over €13,000, discovered at his home in a north Dublin suburb, during a search operation in September Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 14/1/2022 News The Impact of Covid-19. Cybercrime and Cyberthreats The paper describes the evolution of cyber-attacks, based on different official reports from law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity companies. It focuses on the EMPACT priority ‘cybercrime-attacks on information systems’ and analyses the main types of malware (banking trojans, ransomware, cryptojacking and botnets malware) and their evolution during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The paper presents both online threats vectors (email-based attacks, web-based attacks, social media scams) and offline threats and their impact to the information systems. The present article underlin es the importance of education and training in this field and recommends measures to fight with the cybercrime phenomenon. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Police Officers’ Mental Health This study had a twofold objective. First, we aimed to measure the levels of stress symptoms and burnout on the police officers who volunteered for the study. Second, we proposed to examine the effect of COVID-19 exposure and exposure to traumatic experiences in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic on the officers’ mental health. The National Directorate of the Policia de Segurança Pública (Portuguese Public Security Police) approved this study and was responsible for distributing information about the study and the link to an online questionnaire among their officers. As expected, the levels of burnout, psychological distress, and posttraumatic stress (PTS) were higher than similar professional populations in non-pandemic conditions. Officers with fewer than 11 years of work experience showed fewer symptoms of PTS compared to those with longer work experience, but at the same time, they reported higher levels of burnout. Women revealed higher scores of burnout-disengagement, but no other differences compared to their male colleagues. Officers who were married or living in a partner relationship obtained lower levels of posttraumatic stress than officers who reported being single, divorced, or widowed. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Italian police object to being sent pink face masks to wear on duty ITALY: Union chief writes to head of police saying ‘eccentric’ masks could damage image of the institution The Guardian 14/1/2022 News Policing South Africa’s Lockdown: Despite the progressive vision of South Africa’s policy elites after the end of Apartheid, the South African Police Service (SAPS) faces such severe challenges of efficiency, accountability, and legitimacy that the institution appears under chronic siege. We sought to document the view of insiders on the SAPS’s preparedness and effectiveness at fulfilling its expanded mandate in response to Covid-19. As part of a larger research project, we conducted 27 interviews with police officers and representatives of other government departments across three provinces. These revealed two narratives. The first – and surprisingly dominant – is one of strong coordinating structures, capable leadership and effective command and control under exceptionally difficult circumstances. The second, however, is of an organisation stretched beyond breaking point and placing its members under impossible strains. We conclude that the two narratives are complementary and that their co-existence reflects the opposing pressures faced by the police in this period: the consolidating logic of state securitisation under conditions of crisis and the underlying fragmenting logic of dysfunctional, kleptocratic governance European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Training and Education During the Pandemic Crisis The COVID-19 pandemic is deeply redesigning the approach and practices in the field of training targeting law enforcement agencies (LEAs). The effects are interesting and multifaceted and are expected to persist on the medium and long term. In fact, a new room for debating on positive and negative experiences, advantages and difficulties, emerging needs and requirements, pioneering ideas and ground-breaking initiatives has opened. The H2020 ANITA project wants to contribute to this debate by providing details about how it has managed to reorganise its training activities from in-person to remote sessions, the perception and feedback from the participating LEAs and the criteria it is using to design curricula for public and private stakeholders on online illegal trafficking. It is emerging that digitalised and remote trainings addressed to law enforcement agencies require both a new and innovative didactic concept and a ground-breaking learning paradigm. In-person lessons are essential for their wide-ranging benefits, but the COVID-19 pandemic is showing how distance learning could be also revolutionary and powerful. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Policing in Times of the Pandemic The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe during March 2020 marked a fissure in many areas of the society, including policing. As a means for containing increasing outbreaks of the virus, almost every government in Europe resorted to issuing strict lockdown measures, essentially halting all public life. Consequently, the police have been tasked with enforcing novel legal rules such as mask wearing, social distancing and curfews. However, due to the nature of the pandemic crisis, the enacted measures were often issued on short notice, leaving little time for legal scrutiny, nor for adequate communication – to the public or law enforcement agencies. The proposed paper – which is based on a project currently submitted for review – specifically looks at this intersection of hastily issued laws and their enforcement on the ground level through police forces and the subsequent issues that have resulted from this. Starting from an organisational studies point of view, we consider that the problems with “policing the pandemic” might emerge as a result from a three-level governance of pandemic response – the governmental/legal level; the organisational structure of the police; ground level policing European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Challenges For Police Training After Covid-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable the world is and posed unprecedented challenges to almost every part of society including the police. While the scope of research within the police on the impact of COVID-19 has been on police officers and their stress levels, their mental health, demands, and coping resources as well as the potential impacts of police legitimacy, the impact on police training due to COVID-19 has been a minor topic of research. COVID-19 and its consequences on police training illustrate a lack of digital preparation, equipment, and infrastructure, as well as a multitude of other challenges, which lie ahead of the police training. Among them are a demographic change combined with a divergent family educational background of the future police recruits, a new generation of police recruits (Generation Z) linked to a necessary new style of leadership, and the possible damage of the police reputation because of popular cases related to extremism and racism (e.g. public loss of legitimacy and acceptance). Furthermore, continuous new challenges can be found in the daily police work (e.g. cybercrime, complexity of operations), which affect police training as well. Lastly, there is the question of how the police force is willing to face, manage, and overcome these challenges after the Covid-19 pandemic to be prepared for the future. The challenges and solution approach will primarily focus on Bavarian police training, but can easily be transferred to almost any police training in Europe and even in some aspects to the German dual educational system. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Populist Pressures, Policing and the Pandemic The paper focuses on challenges that are brought to police management and leadership by populist and racializing political rhetoric (often coming from government or local government) connecting the virus and minority communities through a discourse that identifies ethno-culturally rooted reasons for higher infection rates and disobeying curfew and social distancing measures. The paper has three parts: the first begins with mapping out four distinct scenarios in how the COVID-19 virus may affect certain groups incommensurately, arguing they lead to systemic and institutional discrimination. This is followed by an overview of how – in socio-economic terms – Roma are impacted throughout Europe, and have been targeted by racialising and securitising populist political rhetoric and law enforcement measures during the first wave of the pandemic in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain. The third part investigates whether the legal framework for policing multicultural communities could be used as a procedural basis for such a targeted action – and argues that, in theory, the answer is affirmative. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Responding to Domestic Abuse – Policing Innovations During the Covid-19 Pandemic This paper, based on research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (RCUK; Grant number ES/V00476X/1), offers a review and analysis of the different ways in which police officers (in role of domestic abuse leads) in 22 different police forces in England and Wales, endeavoured to provide optimum service delivery in relation to domestic abuse during 2020-21. The paper suggests that thinking about these DA leads as entrepreneurs offers a valuable lens through which to make sense of the range of innovative practices that were introduced and the future potential of these in responding to domestic abuse. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on Law Enforcement Practice The COVID-19 pandemic and its consequent crisis continues to have a significant and potentially long-lasting impact on our every day lives, on the serious and organised crime landscape in Europe and on law enforcement practice. The consequences of the crisis on law enforcement work have been strongly felt and have been manifold. Police authorities had to adapt by stepping up coordination efforts; they had to refocus their work on priority areas such maintaining public order, overseeing border control and compliance with lockdown measures. Certain crime areas that have been particularly pronounced in the crisis context have been also set as key priorities for some national law enforcement authorities. New, specific working measures had to be designed to ensure the safety and protection of law enforcement staff carrying out their duties on the ground. In parallel, law enforcement authorities had to devise contingency plans to address the reduction in the work force stemming from COVID-19 infections. The COVID-19 crisis has also prompted the reassessment of law enforcement cross-border cooperation practices and the need to identify suitable solutions for operational secure remote communication European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Fraud, Pandemics and Policing Responses The article identifies some novel crime types and methodologies arising during the current pandemic that were not seen in previous pandemics. These changes may result from public health measures taken in response to COVID-19, the current state of technologies and the activities of law enforcement and regulators. It shows that most frauds that we know about might have occurred anyway, but some specific – mainly online – frauds occur during pandemics, and because of large scale government assistance programmes to businesses and individuals, many more opportunities were created from Covid-19. In the UK and Australia (less clearly elsewhere), public-private partnerships between police and banks led to joint activities in the attempted prevention of public-facing frauds (though the success measures are unclear), and arrests of suspects were sometimes easier because they were at home more! However, responses to fraud against government loans and grants were weaker and it is likely that many of them will be unprosecuted. More frauds will come to light later. More rapid prevention is the key to reducing the impact of economic crimes, but we need better focused research on how to get people not to fall for scams, better technologies to make frauds harder, and better processes and political will to stop procurement frauds. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Policing During A Pandemic It is much remarked upon that the pandemic exposed underlying tensions and weaknesses in European societies. Police attention, in enforcing lockdowns and other restrictions on movement and assembly, has tended to be disproportionately focused upon minority communities. However, middle class white people have also been policed in ways they have perhaps not previously experienced. As a consequence, the pandemic has shed light on the use of police powers more generally. While police powers to stop citizens, to check their identity and to search or otherwise detain them have long been controversial in the US and in the UK, they have now become a focus of debate in Belgium, France, Germany and beyond. In a public health pandemic, the police largely continued to discipline the working class and minorities (despite the alarm raised by middle classes). Attention was not equally distributed and there is little to connect patterns of policing with, for instance, prevalence of the virus within local populations. Instead, policing continued to act as a disciplinary instrument in particularly problematic and unruly communities. This paper draws upon a review of policing of the pandemic undertaken by an EU COST Action (CA17102) on Police Stops. In the absence of clarity and transparency, the use of police powers can undermine legitimacy in particular communities and, this presents particular threats to the social health and security of all. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Police Training in Baltimore During the Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic presented significant challenges for police training in the United States city of Baltimore. The city’s police department operates its own police academy, training both new recruits and incumbent officers. The police academy was able to quickly shift to remote learning for recruits enrolled in entry-level training. All recruit classes graduated nearly on time, but the prolonged period they spent in remote learning interfered with the trainees’ ability to subsequently apply what they had learned in practical scenarios. For incumbent officers, continuing education was interrupted for four months, reducing the amount of in-service training that could be accomplished during 2020. This article recounts the police department’s experience with training during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in March 2020. European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin - Registration at source 14/1/2022 Research article Minister to take action on exempt housing after visit to West Midlands Officer tells Kit Malthouse that landlords are exploiting supported housing loophole in high crime areas. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 14/1/2022 News 2021 worst year on record for online child sexual abuse Last year was the worst on record for online child sexual abuse with a three-fold increase in self-generated imagery of children aged seven to ten, according the latest figures from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) . Police Professional 14/1/2022 News Violent stalker has sentence tripled A man who stalked, assaulted and kidnapped a woman has had his sentence tripled following a referral to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General, Alex Chalk QC MP. Police Professional 14/1/2022 News «314031413142314331443145314631473148Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
