Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115042 total results. Showing results 6461 to 6480 «320321322323324325326327328Next ›Last » Victoria Police partners with Auror in bid to curb retail crime AUSTRALIA: Victoria Police will begin using a new retail-crime intelligence platform as part of a partnership with global firm Auror. The partnership aims to better identify high-harm repeat offenders and improve the efficiency of frontline investigations, giving police access to expanded digital evidence, including retailer-supplied CCTV, licence plate recognition linked to crime events, and collaborative investigation tools. Convenience and Impulse Retailing (Australia) 25/11/2025 News ‘Overreach’: Inner Melbourne declared police designated search area until May 2026 AUSTRALIA: Melbourne's CBD and some surrounding suburbs have been declared a designated search area by Victoria Police from Sunday 30th November until 29th May 2026. The declaration means police and protective service officers (PSOs) will be empowered to randomly stop and search anyone without a warrant or need for reasonable grounds. The move has been slammed by the Director of Advocacy and Policy at Inner Melbourne Community Legal and the Police Accountability Project Michelle Reynolds, who told Ali Moore the plan is "infringing civil liberties" of "every person visiting out city". ABC Listen (Australia) 25/11/2025 Audio, News Barrie Police chief asks for 8.5% increase in 2026 budget CANADA: ‘We are an expensive part of a civil society. We recognize it,’ said Barrie Police Chief Rich Johnston Barrie Today (Canada) 25/11/2025 News Cheshire Police plan to axe up to 60 PCSOs A cost-cutting proposal by Cheshire Police to axe up to 60 PCSO roles would be a ‘false economy’ and ‘a mistake we cannot afford to make’, a councillor has said. Cllr Julie Smith (Handforth, non-grouped) has written to her fellow 81 councillors on Cheshire East Council urging them to fight to keep their PCSOs in the borough’s towns and villages. Her rallying call comes as the force launched an internal consultation this week to save £13 million over the next four years through reducing PCSOs and redistributing warranted police officers into neighbourhood policing teams. Cheshire Live 25/11/2025 News ‘Let’s take pride in the flag,’ urges Greater Manchester Police chief as he warns of ‘danger of reacting to tiny minority’ Greater Manchester’s police chief has urged Brits to proudly fly the St George’s flag and warned over the danger of “reacting to a tiny minority” by weaponising it. LBC 25/11/2025 News Going equipped: Issue 11 Autumn/Winter 2025 Introducing the new issue of Going equipped – a publication written for policing, by policing [PDF] College of Policing 25/11/2025 Report The extent of illicit drug and alcohol involvement in crime: An updated estimate We used data from interviews with police detainees (n=2,249) to measure the extent to which their offending was related to illicit drugs or alcohol. We then used these findings to estimate the total number of principal offences attributable to different substances. In 2019, 45 percent of all detainees attributed their offending to substance use. Offending was most commonly attributed to methamphetamine (27.6%) and alcohol use (16.5%). Alcohol attribution was more common for violent crimes, while methamphetamine featured prominently among both violent and property offences. Applying these attributable fractions to recorded crime data for 2019, we estimated that substance use contributed to approximately 156,760 principal offences in Australia. This included 95,990 offences attributable to methamphetamine and 56,627 attributable to alcohol use. Australian Institute of Criminology (Australia) 25/11/2025 Report ‘Gang in balaclavas targeted our combine harvester’: Farmers welcome rural crime crackdown Early this summer a gang dressed in black and wearing balaclavas approached an isolated farmhouse in County Durham as a couple in their 80s slept inside. They'd been staking out the property and knew exactly what to steal from the vehicles parked outside – a combine harvester's expensive GPS equipment that could be smuggled abroad. The farming family had fallen victim to what police say is increasingly brazen organised crime. BBC 25/11/2025 News Too many female abuse victims are locked up, says minister as BBC visits women’s prison Tina was 16 years old when she says she was forced to get married. She describes what followed as decades of "relentless" abuse, including being "punched in the face a few times...[and] an incident where my head was smashed into a wall". It culminated in divorce - after which her family cut her off - and a downward spiral into drug and alcohol abuse and depression. Now in her 40s, Tina - not her real name - is serving a six-year sentence for importing class A drugs. BBC 25/11/2025 News Watchdog to review decision making on policing of high-profile football matches The Government has asked the policing watchdog to examine how decisions are made around the safety of high-profile football matches, after reports that a ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on false intelligence. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 25/11/2025 News Policeman ‘with not enough to do’ wrote erotic stories at work A police officer wrote erotic stories on his work laptop because he “did not have enough to do”, a Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing was told. Detective Constable Thomas Sewell used his downtime at work to write a first-person story containing “misogynistic, aggressive and sexual language”. The Telegraph - Subscription at source 25/11/2025 News Greater Manchester Police target local neighbourhoods in ‘crime-smashing’ blitz The raid has seen 500 fewer burglary victims each month, a quarter-reduction in vehicle crime. A crime-smashing neighbourhood policing operation is underway in Brinnington as local teams work to disrupt illegal activity, arrest criminals, and take action where the public wants. LBC 25/11/2025 News ‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months AUSTRALIA: Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups The Guardian 25/11/2025 News Police accept Jevon McSkimming sex allegations will hurt recruitment NEW ZEALAND: A police leader accepts the sex allegations against former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming will likely hinder recruitment amid efforts to finally achieve the Government’s failed target. The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand) - Subscription at source 25/11/2025 News Hundreds of Scots police officers off sick with mental health problems New figures have prompted a call from the Scottish Police Federation for more funding for treatments for mental health conditions. Almost 400 cops in Scotland are currently off sick with mental health problems, with one absent for more than four years. Daily Record 25/11/2025 News Police misconduct inquiry in Harshita Brella case Four police officers are facing misconduct proceedings over their handling of abuse allegations reported by Harshita Brella, who was later found dead in a car boot. The 24-year-old from Corby was found in a car in Ilford, east London, 100 miles (160km) from her home in November 2024. BBC 25/11/2025 News Commissioner Krissy Barrett: ‘The AFP has some of the most unique and sophisticated capability in the world’ Since Krissy Barrett’s appointment last month as Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), she has been setting out some of the challenges facing the organisation in the current policing landscape; she recently spoke to Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons about her aims for leading the force to meet the evolving threats, the AFP’s unique technical and collaborative capabilities, and her ambition to ensure the AFP is “the best police agency in the world to work in”. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/11/2025 Feature, Interview Government launches first drug-driving campaign in a decade The government has launched its first drug-driving awareness campaign in a decade as part of efforts to tackle the sharp rise in drug-related collisions. Emergency Services Times 25/11/2025 News New annual national day to honour victims and survivors of terrorism The government has confirmed it will establish a new annual national day to honour victims and survivors of terrorism, with the first commemoration scheduled for 21 August 2026. Emergency Services Times 25/11/2025 News Police officer who wrote erotic stories on work laptop is sacked The officer claimed to write the erotic stories on his work laptop because he “did not have enough to do”, a misconduct hearing was told. Detective Constable Thomas Sewell used his downtime at work to write a first person story containing “misogynistic, aggressive and sexual language”, a Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing was told. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 25/11/2025 News «320321322323324325326327328Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
