Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115042 total results. Showing results 6541 to 6560 «324325326327328329330331332Next ›Last » Chief Constables, arrest thyselves News that Police and Crime Commissioners are to be abolished will have led to the popping of a great many champagne corks in the offices of Chief Constables and their senior colleagues. The Critic 23/11/2025 Feature, Opinion Police ‘used fake claims’ to ban Maccabi fans from Aston Villa game A British police force used false intelligence to secure a ban on Israeli fans attending an away game in Birmingham this month, according to Dutch law... The Times - Subscription at source 22/11/2025 News “Asked if I have experienced homophobia, I’ll say no. What I mean by that is I have not had my head kicked in”: Understanding LGBT+ perspectives on hate crime and barriers to reporting in the UK As Covid-19 restrictions eased in 2021, a wave of LGBT + hate crime was reported in the media across local regions in the United Kingdom (UK). Although recorded hate crimes are increasing, as few as one in ten victims report instances of victimisation. Whilst decision-making processes and models of reporting helping to understand the reasons for under-reporting of hate crimes have been explored, there is a lack of UK-based research into the LGBT + community’s understanding of what constitutes hate crime, their perceptions of the police, and barriers to reporting such offences. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with LGBT + individuals from a northern UK city, thematic analysis revealed key factors contributing to under-reporting. Participants expressed uncertainty about what constitutes an anti-LGBT + hate crime, particularly in relation to verbal abuse, and often did not perceive their experiences as severe enough to report. Low confidence in engaging with the police stemmed from concerns about poor treatment, disbelief, and fears of homophobic or transphobic attitudes within law enforcement. Additionally, participants were largely unaware of third-party reporting centres (TPRCs) as an alternative method for reporting. Based on these findings, the study recommends improving police engagement through better training on LGBT + issues, reducing the tokenistic use of LGBT + officers, and launching awareness campaigns to clarify what constitutes a hate crime, and promote the use of TPRCs. These measures could help bridge the gap in reporting and improve police-community relations. The Police Journal: Theory Practice and Principles 22/11/2025 Research article York cops to pilot ‘smart policing’ kiosk as crime reporting alternative CANADA: Technology developed for "smart policing" in Dubai will soon be piloted in York Region through new kiosks. By next spring, York police will install a digital kiosk connecting community members to police services after hours at its Vaughan Metropolitan Centre substation. The device, not intended as a replacement for calling 9-1-1, will allow for reporting of crimes and non-emergencies in the area. Barrie Today (Canada) 22/11/2025 News Lancs Police to pay ‘substantial damages’ after wrongly accusing teenager of firework attack Bosses at Lancashire Constabulary have apologised and offered to pay “substantial” damages after it posted a video of a teenager on TikTok falsely claiming he was responsible for throwing a firework at a police car. Lancs Live 22/11/2025 News Cost of Police Scotland’s Operation Portaledge hits half a million New figures released by Police Scotland under Freedom of Information show the cost of their crackdown on gangland violence codenamed Operation Portaledge has cost the force more than £500,000. Daily Record 22/11/2025 News How Victoria’s new crime-reduction unit can help tackle its youth crime problem Following months of headlines and community concerns around youth violence in Victoria and its capital Melbourne, the State Government recently announced plans to create a specialist team focused on early intervention and mentorship, similar to the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit; Senior Criminology Lecturer Dr Joel McGregor of Swinburne University of Technology believes a well-funded, multi-agency, public health approach such as this could deliver long-term change. Policing Insight 22/11/2025 Feature, Opinion Families of Wieambilla ambush victims say they are ‘disappointed’ by coronial inquest findings AUSTRALIA: The heartbroken families of the two police officers and another man killed in the Wieambilla shootings say they are disappointed and let down by the outcome of the coronial inquest into the death of their loved ones. ABC News (Australia) 21/11/2025 News Toronto police constable charged with sexual assault, intimidation: police CANADA: A Toronto police constable is facing multiple charges after he allegedly assaulted, harassed, intimidated and threatened a victim over the span of 11 years. In a news release Friday, the Toronto Police Service said Const. Bojan Antal has been charged with sexual assault, mischief, three counts of uttering threats and breach of trust by a public officer. CBC News (Canada) 21/11/2025 News German police report record level of domestic violence GERMANY: Ongoing research has shown that as few as 5% of all incidents of intimate partner violence are reported to authorities. Domestic violence in Germany rose to record levels last year, according to figures from the country’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) released on Friday. Euractive 21/11/2025 News ‘Toxic’: California ex-police chief tells of colleagues’ racist harassment campaign USA: Shawny Williams, who tried to reform Vallejo police department, says threats to his safety led him to resign. The embattled former police chief of Vallejo, a San Francisco Bay Area city that has attracted national attention over police violence, has said that he endured a steady procession of racist remarks from colleagues and online harassment and threats that ultimately led him to resign. The Guardian 21/11/2025 News Over 2,500 assaults on police officers and more than 100 police vehicles rammed A police officer tending to a detained patient, who was HIV positive, faces months of worry and medicated treatment after blood was sprayed directly into her face and eyes. This is one of the “shocking and disgusting attacks” on officers which are strongly condemned by Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Singleton who is calling for respect to be shown to officers whose aim is to keep communities safe from harm. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 21/11/2025 News Police chief putting more officers on the beat A police chief has said he wants to "stabilise patrol numbers" by getting more than 100 additional officers on the beat. Devon and Cornwall chief constable James Vaughan said 121 officers were being added to patrol teams, with 71 officers joining existing patrol teams by the end of 2025, along with another 50 by the end of March. BBC 21/11/2025 News No police error over woman who died in custody, says IOPC North Wales Police did not cause or contribute to the death of a woman in custody, an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has found. BBC 21/11/2025 News Algeria to get UK support on digital forensics, biometrics for policing AFRICA: The Directorate General of National Security of Algeria (DGSN) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom’s Home Office aimed at strengthen the North African country’s policing capabilities with advanced technologies. BiometricUpdate.com 21/11/2025 News EU police can store biometrics with no time limit if processing rules followed EUROPE: Law enforcement agencies can store biometric and genetic data from convicts and suspects in accordance with national and European laws, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has ruled. In addition, national law does not need to provide for a maximum period of storage “if it sets appropriate time limits for a review of the need to store those data,” the judgement notes. BiometricUpdate.com 21/11/2025 News The invention of urgency: the transformation of the police role in society’s response to mental illness, 1900–1970 This paper reconstructs the history of the police role in society’s response to mental illness in the United States through roughly 1970. By examining a range of archival materials (including ethnographic studies of policing and case histories from early-twentieth century psychopathic hospitals), I find that police in the US have always managed problems related to mental illness, but that this task grew and changed in significant ways in the mid-twentieth century, shifting from a primarily ministerial role carrying out the work of the courts to a more independent role managing urgent crises in the field. Those changes emerged as a part of the communications and transportation revolutions of the early twentieth century, which made it easier for anyone to mobilise an official response to urgent problems that they might have managed on their own in the past. As American police struggled to cope with this new responsibility, they turned to mental health professionals for guidance, but those professionals had little relevant expertise to offer; the knowledge and practice of psychiatry and related fields had never focused primarily on the management of urgent problems in the moments when they erupted but on the less temporally specific work of mental health treatment. The failure to appreciate this distinction made it difficult for the police and others to address the challenges this new responsibility involved. In these ways, this case helps clarify a distinctive yet neglected feature of the police role, and it highlights an important challenge that current efforts to reform the landscape of mental health crisis response need to contend with. Policing and Society 21/11/2025 Research article PFEW responds to latest Police use of force statistics Deputy National Chair Brian Booth: “The alarming statistics on police use of force released on Thursday confirm what frontline officers tell us every day: policing is becoming increasingly dangerous. With an increase of 9 per cent to more than 812,000 incidents in the year ending 31 March 2025, and an officer assaulted every 10 minutes across the UK, the threat to our members has reached a crisis point. Nearly two-thirds of use of force incidents involve officers protecting themselves from violence which is a damning indictment of the epidemic facing our profession." Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 21/11/2025 News Accountability needs transparency overhaul after cops’ ‘appalling’ arrest: Rattenbury AUSTRALIA: A former attorney-general says police accountability in the ACT needs to be overhauled to allow greater public scrutiny in the wake of police officers arresting the wrong Aboriginal teenager on a public bus at gunpoint. The Canberra Times (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/11/2025 News Aboriginal boy wrongfully restrained by Australian police NEW ZEALAND: Australian Capital Territory (ACT) police confirmed the child was not the alleged offender they were searching for. A young Aboriginal boy was allegedly wrongfully held at gunpoint, forced face-down on the ground, and pinned by ACT police officers last week in an incident that has sparked outrage among his family, First Nations leaders, and advocates, who say he was profiled and violently targeted. 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