Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 105109 total results. Showing results 63761 to 63780 «318531863187318831893190319131923193Next ›Last » Policing the Pandemic: Six-wave panel study highlights the importance of legitimacy and public interactions How does policing affect people’s willingness to comply with COVID-19 restrictions, and does the public support the actions police may have to take? Having surveyed public opinion across 10 British cities at regular intervals during the pandemic, Dr Arabella Kyprianides, Dr Julia Yesberg, Dr Zoe Hobson and Prof Ben Bradford of UCL, Prof Jonathan Jackson and Dr Krisztián Pósch (LSE), and Dr Reka Solymosi of the University of Manchester discuss the findings of the Policing the Pandemic study. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 6/11/2020 Analysis, Feature Do the Effects of Police Body-Worn Cameras on Use of Force and Complaints Change Over Time? Results From A Panel Analysis in the Milwaukee Police Department Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) can help improve transparency, accountability, and policing behaviors. This study extends prior BWC research by using a panel analysis design with a measure of treatment duration to examine how the effects of BWCs change over time. Using data from the Milwaukee Police Department (N= 1,009), we propose and test two competing hypotheses: The program maturity hypothesis suggests that BWCs will be more effective at reducing use of force and complaints over time, whereas the program fatigue hypothesis expects BWCs to be less effective the longer officers wear BWCs. We find that BWCs reduced complaints overall and that, over time, each additional month with a camera resulted in 6% fewer complaints. There was no overall relationship between BWCs and use of force, but our treatment duration model suggests that there was an immediate decrease in use of force incidents, followed by a gradual increase in subsequent months. Criminal Justice and Behaviour - Registration at source 6/11/2020 Research article Predicting Violence in Merseyside: A Network-Based Approach Using No Demographic Information We explore how we can best predict violent attacks with injury using a limited set of information on (a) previous violence, (b) previous knife and weapon carrying, and (c) violence-related behaviour of known associates, without analysing any demographic characteristics. Our initial data set consists of 63,022 individuals involved in 375,599 events that police recorded in Merseyside (UK) from 1 January 2015 to 18 October 2018. We split our data into two periods: T1 (initial 2 years) and T2 (the remaining period). We predict “violence with injury” at time T2 as defined by Merseyside Police using the following individual-level predictors at time T1: violence with injury; involvement in a knife incident and involvement in a weapon incident. Furthermore, we relied on social network analysis to reconstruct the network of associates at time T1 (co-offending network) for those individuals who have committed violence at T2, and built three additional network-based predictors (associates’ violence; associates’ knife incident; associates’ weapon incident). Finally, we tackled the issue of predicting violence (a) through a series of robust logistic regression models using a bootstrapping method and (b) through a specificity/sensitivity analysis. We found that 7720 individuals committed violence with injury at T2. Of those, 2004 were also present at T1 (27.7%) and co-offended with a total of 7202 individuals. Regression models suggest that previous violence at time T1 is the strongest predictor of future violence (with an increase in odds never smaller than 123%), knife incidents and weapon incidents at the individual level have some predictive power (but only when no information on previous violence is considered), and the behaviour of one’s associates matters. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 6/11/2020 Research article Chiefs seek government suppport over unpaid pandemic FCNs North-west chief constables have said they are seeking swifter justice for unpaid fixed penalty notices given for braking lockdown rules. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/11/2020 News NI Policing Board told COVID marshals part of enforcement plan Senior officers say 'designated bodies' are part of layered approach. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 6/11/2020 News Busting the myths around HIV The Federation is working with the National AIDS Trust to tackle the stigma of HIV and provide reassurance for colleagues around its transmission. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 6/11/2020 News Scotland’s smacking ban comes into force A ban on smacking children in Scotland will officially come into force on Saturday. Holyrood Magazine 6/11/2020 News Hong Kong police launch hotline for residents to inform on each other Tip-offs for alleged breaches of national security law could tear city apart, says one lawyer The Guardian 6/11/2020 News Abuse of babies is up by a fifth during Covid crisis, Ofsted says Chief inspector says virus has put extra strain on families, with rise also in accidental deaths The Guardian 6/11/2020 News Just No Stopping Stop & Search in the UK? Home Office figures released last week provide a bleak picture of increases in stop and search after a decade of decline, continuing racial disparity resulting in a Black person being 9 times more likely to be stopped than a White person, growing dominance of drugs as the reported grounds for a search, and the failure of reforms to improve the most intrusive of police powers, particularly amongst a handful of forces - most notably, the Metropolitan Police Service. Talking Drugs 6/11/2020 News Undercover police spied on UK’s anti-apartheid movement for decades, inquiry hears Lawyer says operations focused on anti-racism campaigners The Independent 6/11/2020 News Coronavirus in Scotland: police fear anger will lead to unrest Rising unemployment and growing resentment caused by the pandemic have the potential to trigger public unrest, a senior police officer has warned. The Times - Subscription at source 6/11/2020 News Coronavirus: What powers do police have if people break Covid rules? The police's role in the coronavirus pandemic is simple: to ensure we follow the new restrictions on our lives. BBC 6/11/2020 Analysis, Feature Dozy Blackwood drug dealer took cocaine to police interview A dopey dealer drove to a voluntary police interview with cocaine in his car and also thought it a good idea to take along his iPhone which contained his drug trafficking history. South Wales Argus 6/11/2020 News Undercover police officer Bob Lambert ‘planted Debenhams firebomb’ An undercover police officer who infiltrated an animal rights group was yesterday accused of planting a firebomb at a department store. The Times - Subscription at source 6/11/2020 News PTSD: the service’s hidden battlefield Former officer Nic Castle gives a very personal account of how he has struggled to cope with Post Traumatic Stress Order years after leaving his force on a disability pension. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 5/11/2020 Feature Police advise caution following phone scams Police are advising increased caution following reports of recent telephone frauds. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 5/11/2020 News Defence to assault on children removed Equal Protection from Assault Act comes into force. Scottish Government 5/11/2020 News Man suspected of running ‘industrial scale’ cannabis farm network arrested during NCA operation A Birmingham man suspected of being the mastermind behind an “industrial scale” network of UK cannabis farms has been arrested as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. Police Professional 5/11/2020 News New Zealand police make use of dozens of facial recognition tools discretely, audit reveals NEW ZEALAND: An audit has shown that New Zealand’s police has more than a dozen facial recognition technology tools in its repertoire which it has been using without the knowledge of government authorities. 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