Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115977 total results. Showing results 65121 to 65140 «325332543255325632573258325932603261Next ›Last » Policing biometrics: The importance of oversight and ethical governance The rapid advance of biometric technology is generating new identification and surveillance opportunities for the police and security sectors, alongside growing concern about oversight; Jessica Figueras, Vice-Chair of the UK Cyber Security Council (writing here in a private capacity) believes that improved ethical governance will be crucial as the use of biometrics expands – and the lack of ‘algorithmic inspection’ skills required to provide that governance could slow the pace of adoption. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/10/2021 Feature, Opinion Action plan revealed to cut Essex crime after 22% rise in offences New figures have revealed that drug crimes have risen 124% in Essex, rape and sexual assaults by 57% and murder by 20%. East Anglian Daily Times 25/10/2021 News Queen’s University students gather for second weekend of unsanctioned street parties in Kingston CANADA: In anticipation of the large gatherings Saturday, police officers and first responders were brought to Kingston from across Ontario, including Durham, York Region, Vaughan, Belleville and Toronto. Ottawa Citizen (Canada) 24/10/2021 News Job talks set for acquitted WA constable AUSTRALIA: West Australian Police Commissioner Chris Dawson will talk to a constable about his future employment after he was acquitted of murdering an Indigenous woman. The West Australian (Australia) 24/10/2021 News Gardai catch 316 drivers speeding across Ireland on National Slow Down Day as public urged to slow down and save lives IRELAND: The public have been warned to slow down to reduce collisions and save lives across Ireland. The Irish Sun (Republic of Ireland) 24/10/2021 News German police halt armed far-right vigilantes on Polish border GERMANY: Weapons seized after call from far-right party for members to prevent migrants from entering country The Guardian 24/10/2021 News ‘Trans criminals are not women’: Home Secretary Priti Patel orders ‘woke’ police forces to stop recording offences as female crime statistics Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered ‘woke’ police forces to stop recording offences by trans women in female crime statistics. Mail Online 24/10/2021 News Diane Abbott says police don’t take online racism seriously as figures reveal 144% rise The former Shadow Home Secretary, who was the first black woman elected to Parliament, says she has "no confidence" that people who post racist abuse on social media will face any consequences Mirror 24/10/2021 News Met Police have no team to monitor officers’ online behaviour – as sickening tweets emerge The Metropolitan Police has no oversight for monitoring the online comments of its own officers beyond staff dobbing in their colleagues. Express 24/10/2021 News Women and nightclubs accuse police of failing to act on reports of drink-spiking Figures suggest that one force alone may have been told of 500 cases without a single conviction following, and just 27 arrests The Guardian 24/10/2021 News Through the Looking Glass: Memory, Myth and Policing the Past The legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict continues to weigh heavily on the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s institutional memory and contemporary policing practices. In this paper, we argue that the tension between competing interpretations of organisational memory and the need to ‘police’ the past has contributed to a ‘through the looking glass’ phenomenon as regards the policing past and efforts to ‘deal with’ the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict. The article opens with an examination of the contested memory of policing in Northern Ireland. We then explore how, on the one hand, from a policing perspective, dealing with the past has been regarded as an opportunity to ‘celebrate’ aspects of the policing past but on the other, has reinforced a desire to ‘censure’ the less palatable aspects of police conduct during the conflict. Relatedly, we then interrogate how this desire to ‘secure the past’ has translated into the argument that existing and prospective mechanisms of truth recovery risk ‘re-writing’ the history of the conflict. Finally, the article considers how efforts at truth recovery have been acted upon and received by contemporary policing bodies. This part of the article lays bare both the practical challenges of ‘doing’ truth recovery within a policing framework and the need to ‘secure’ the memory of the policing past. The conclusion argues for the separation of policing and ‘the past’ and the removal of legacy work from policing bodies whose predecessor force was both a victim and perpetrator of that legacy of political violence. Policing and Society - Registration at source 24/10/2021 Research article Race and Support For Police Use of Force: Findings From the UK The use of force is arguably the defining feature of police. Yet this power is often controversial: a key node in the contest and debate that almost always swirls around police, with the question of race never far from such contestation. In this paper, we consider the influence of race in responses to use of force incidents among British-based samples. Using two text-based vignette experiments and one video study, our aims are threefold: (1) to explore the influence of suspect race in how people respond to police use of force; (2) to test the interaction between participant ethnicity and suspect race; and (3) to understand what attitudes and beliefs influence how people respond to police use of force. We found no effect of suspect race on how people judged police use of force. White participants were slightly more accepting of police use of force than black participants, but there was no interaction with suspect race. The strongest predictor of acceptance of police use of force was trust in police, and, controlling for other relevant predictors, racial prejudice was also a significant positive predictor of acceptance of use of force. To our knowledge this is the first study of its kind to be fielded in the UK. Policing and Society - Registration at source 24/10/2021 Research article Labour Weekend road toll rises to four NEW ZEALAND: Police are warning motorists to reduce risk factors on the road this Labour Weekend, and say they will be out in force cracking down on unsafe driving. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 23/10/2021 News How is corona being perceived and described? The social impact of the virus on policing Ahead of next week’s London Policing College workshops on International Perspectives of Policing in the Pandemic – the last in a series of workshops ahead of the 3rd International Police Education Conference in November – Dr Megan O’Neill, Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, and Professor Jonas Grutzpalk of the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration of North Rhine-Westphalia, discuss the importance of the way COVID-19 is perceived and described by police and public. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 23/10/2021 Feature ‘It hurts and it’s wrong’: family of Aboriginal woman shot dead by WA police officer speak out after acquittal AUSTRALIA: Supporters of JC say 30 years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission there is still ‘no equality’ The Guardian 23/10/2021 News Legal action looming for Canadian police fighting vaccination mandate CANADA: Police On Guard For Thee, a group started in December 2020 by two Ontario police officers, is spearheading the “call to action” to gather interest from law enforcement officers across Canada. Western Standard (Canada) 23/10/2021 News Hundreds of gardaí conferred as ‘human rights champions’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Over 550 Garda members and Garda staff across various ranks and grades have been conferred as 'human rights champions.' Limerick Live (Republic of Ireland) 23/10/2021 News Domestic abuse victims to be given more time to report to police Home Secretary Priti Patel is understood to have backed calls to change the law to give victims of domestic abuse more time to report a crime. Police Professional 23/10/2021 News SNP ministers accused of leaving 10,000 police short of body-worn cameras Ministers have been accused of hampering crime-fighting efforts by funding body-worn cameras for just a few of Scotland’s police officers. The Herald (Scotland) 23/10/2021 News ‘Keystone Cops’ failed Stephen Port’s first victim, parents tell inquest Father of Anthony Walgate says further murders could have been avoided if police had ‘done their jobs better’ The Guardian 23/10/2021 News «325332543255325632573258325932603261Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
