Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103185 total results. Showing results 63561 to 63580 «317531763177317831793180318131823183Next ›Last » The questions we face after an officer suicide… CANADA: Tragically, suicide is something that many first responder agencies have been faced with recently, and I think it needs to be talked about. After every life-ending choice, there is always so much speculation as to why a person would make this decision. How could they leave behind their family, friends, or children? I cannot speak for circumstances surrounding another person’s life-ending decision, but I can speak about my experience and the ripple effect of my mother’s decision to take her own life by suicide 25 years ago. Perhaps my journey through the stages of grief can help shed some light on some of those unanswered questions for people struggling to understand how another person could make a choice to die by their own hands. Blue Line (Canada) 9/9/2020 Feature, Opinion Gay Democrat labelled a ‘first class w***e’ by police union hits back at ‘racist, misogynistic, homophobic’ chief Gay Congressional candidate Ritchie Torres has branded the head of a police union as “racist, misogynistic and homophobic” after the group called him a “first class w***e”. Pink News 9/9/2020 News Inspector – Tasers could be issued to more PSNI officers Tasers could be issued to more frontline police officers in Northern Ireland, inspectors said. Belfast Telegraph 9/9/2020 News Memetic Copaganda: Understanding the Humorous Turn in Police Image Work Recently, numerous police organisations have made a strategic decision to employ humour on social media, via memes and other comical posts, to increase community engagement with their content and manage their public image. One key example of this practice comes from New South Wales Police, a state-based Australian police force whose self-described ‘meme strategy’ led to considerable increases in the organisation’s social media following. Through analysing the content of NSW Police’s memetic copaganda, in this article we unpack this approach to police public relations, detailing its rationale and implications. Police on social media, we argue, must address two very different regimes of visibility: ‘policing’s new visibility’, characterised by the increased visibility of police indiscretion as a result of citizen-produced content, and a ‘threat of invisibility’, in which the visibility of police-produced content on social media is always provisional, never assured. We consequently argue that the humorous turn in police image work represents a countermeasure to not only policing’s new visibility but also the ‘threat of invisibility’ facing police-produced content on social media. Crime Media Culture: An International Journal - Registration at source 9/9/2020 Research article PCC marks Emergency Services Day with call for better protection for officers The police and crime commissioner for Sussex, Katy Bourne, has marked this year’s Emergency Services day by giving her backing to plans to better protect police officers. Police Professional 9/9/2020 News Forces deal with hundreds of Border Force quarantine referrals England and Wales' three largest forces are dealing with hundreds of Border Force referrals of possible quarantine breaches following international travel. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/9/2020 News Public mustn’t forget the 999 services after COVID19 is gone The public can all do more to show thanks and respect to the officers who protect them, says Christine Elliott, Interim Chair of the College of Policing marking 999 Day. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/9/2020 Feature Officers sit first national online exam More than 1,390 officers sat the National Investigators' Exam remotely in a first for policing. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/9/2020 News West Yorkshire Police officer to be investigated over Halifax arrest A West Yorkshire Police officer has been advised that he is subject to a criminal and gross misconduct investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) over his arrest of a man in Halifax on 16 August. Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) 9/9/2020 News Police officer filmed yelling ‘chill out or I’ll choke you’ while holding assault suspect in headlock is under criminal investigation, watchdog says A police officer who yelled 'chill out or I'll choke you out' while holding a suspect in a headlock is under criminal investigation, a watchdog has said. Mail Online 9/9/2020 News You can be arrested if you meet in groups of more than six Boris Johnson has confirmed that gatherings of more than six people will be illegal in England from Monday – and those caught breaking the law could be arrested. Metro 9/9/2020 News Body‐worn cameras’ effects on police officers and citizen behavior: A systematic review Law enforcement agencies have rapidly adopted BWCs in the last decade with the hope that they might improve police conduct, accountability, and transparency, especially regarding use of force. Overall, there remains substantial uncertainty about whether BWCs can reduce officer use of force, but the variation in effects suggests there may be conditions in which BWC could be effective. BWCs also do not seem to affect other police and citizen behaviors in a consistent manner, including officers’ self‐initiated activities or arrest behaviors, dispatched calls for service, or assaults and resistance against police officers. BWCs can reduce the number of citizen complaints against police officers, but it is unclear whether this finding signals an improvement in the quality of police–citizen interactions or a change in reporting. Research has not directly addressed whether BWCs can strengthen police accountability systems or police–citizen relationships. Campbell Systematic Reviews 9/9/2020 Analysis, Feature Reducing Student Burglary Victimisation Using the Nudge Approach This paper presents a study employing nudge psychology to reduce burglary of properties in the twelve most victimised streets in the UK City of Durham. A bespoke survey was developed first, to raise residents’ awareness of the high burglary rate, and second, to nudge them into reflecting on their burglary prevention behaviour. The findings showed that a majority of residents were not previously aware that they were residing on one of 12 most burgled streets in the City of Durham and that they stated that they would adopt more security conscious burglary prevention behaviours as a consequence of taking part in the survey. Fewer burglaries were recorded in the 12 streets for the period during and soon after administration of the survey, compared with police recorded burglaries for the same 12 streets for the same period of months in the 2 years previously. Although the limitations of the present paper are readily acknowledged, as police reported no other burglary-related interventions (including targeted ‘burglar operations’) in the period in question, it is tentatively suggested that the administration of the survey had indeed produced a positive ‘nudge effect’ on residents’ burglary prevention behaviours. The paper concludes with some suggestions for how police might use the data gathered from this approach to develop future burglary prevention initiatives. Crime Prevention and Community Safety - Registration at source 9/9/2020 Research article Redrawing Hot Spots of Crime in Dallas, Texas In this work we evaluate the predictive capability of identifying long term, micro place hot spots in Dallas, Texas. We create hot spots using a clustering algorithm, using law enforcement cost of responding to crime estimates as weights. Relative to the much larger current hot spot areas defined by the Dallas Police Department, our identified hot spots are much smaller (under 3 square miles), and capture crime cost at a higher density. We also show that the clustering algorithm captures a wide array of hot spot types; some one or two addresses, some street segments, and others an agglomeration of larger areas. This suggests identifying hot spots based on a specific unit of aggregation (e.g. addresses, street segments), may be less efficient than using a clustering technique in practice. Police Quarterly - Registration at source 9/9/2020 Research article Service must lift the ‘fog of ignorance’ around diversity, inclusion and policing NPCC Workforce Representation Lead Phil Cain warns that the service must stop 'reacting defensively' to concerns of racism in policing, and become more educated and aware of the issues around diversity and inclusion. Policing Insight - Registration at source 9/9/2020 Feature, Opinion New police leadership scheme will produce ‘better chief constables’ College of Policing CEO Mike Cunningham, and Christine Elliott, Interim Chair of the Board of Directors, outline the latest developments on leadership training, digital advances, and diversity and inclusion. Policing Insight - Registration at source 9/9/2020 News Patel calls on police to review protest powers in wake of XR action The Home Secretary has urged the police to review the powers they have to deal with major protests such as Extinction Rebellion. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/9/2020 News Widows of fallen officers back campaign for Harper’s Law The widow of a Nottinghamshire police dog handler who says she felt "let down by the system" after her husband's killer was convicted of manslaughter is backing Harper's Law. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/9/2020 News How an investigative detective helps keep people safe A critical analysis role in the anti-stalking unit where the work is challenging, diverse and follows a case from start to finish College of Policing 9/9/2020 News CNC to join forces with Kent Police in new community patrol initiative A new initiative will see officers from the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) joining colleagues from Kent Police on patrols for the first time. Police Professional 9/9/2020 News «317531763177317831793180318131823183Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
