Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103216 total results. Showing results 66901 to 66920 «334233433344334533463347334833493350Next ›Last » Review highlights need for national system to respond to children being exploited by drugs gangs The author of a serious case review into the murder of a 14-year-old boy who had been groomed by drug dealers has called for the creation of a national system for responding to exploitation of children by County Lines gangs. Police Professional 27/5/2020 News Police refuse to review coronavirus lockdown fines after Dominic Cummings case Police will not review fines handed out under coronavirus laws because of Dominic Cummings' travel to County Durham. The Independent 27/5/2020 News 26 arrested for smuggling irregular migrants through Belgium and France The criminal network provided transport and hiding locations in the two transit countries Europol 27/5/2020 News International collaboration leads to arrest of child sexual abuser in Italy Within 10 days of the discovery of the videos online, a 30-year old individual was arrested by the Italian State Police (Polizia di Stato) as a result of an international police effort to track down this man who produced child sexual abuse material. Europol 27/5/2020 News Work of Welsh officers ‘in finest traditions of service’ The Deputy Presiding Officer of the Welsh Parliament has praised police officers in the country for retaining the ‘overwhelming support of the public’ during the COVID-19 lockdown. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 27/5/2020 News Met Police vows to ‘occupy’ 250 hotspots to stop return of violent criminals The Met today vowed to “hold the ground” in London’s most violent places as it unveiled plans to stop criminal activity returning after the lockdown. The Standard 27/5/2020 News Police Commissioner: ‘High threshold’ for routine use of armed police NEW ZEALAND: Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says there would have to be a "very high threshold" for him to change his belief that New Zealand's police should not be routinely armed. Following last year's mosque shootings, police launched a six-month Armed Response Team trial as a way to tackle a rise in gun crime. The trial was met with strong opposition and Māori justice advocates called for it to be stopped. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 27/5/2020 News Police solve cross-border crime using WhatsApp – finding £16k cannon The introduction of Whatsapp for police officers and farmers in Wiltshire has been hailed a success after the use of the app helped with a cross-border crime. Salisbury Journal 27/5/2020 News Public statement: When words lose their meaning it’s time to change them Phrases such as 'isolated incident' and 'reassure the public' regularly appear in police statements to the public and press, regardless of the force, but crisis communication consultant Amanda Coleman argues their overuse has rendered them meaningless and it's time to take a different approach. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 27/5/2020 Feature, Opinion Public contact: Are forces ‘digitally fit’ enough to manage the growth of digital channels? As part of his role in assessing the digital fitness of police forces to manage the growth of digital channels, Steve Norris, Police Market Director for Salesforce UK says recurring issues around transparency, the democratisation of data and the technical debt are holding some forces back. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 27/5/2020 Analysis, Feature A Systematic Review on Spatial Crime Forecasting Predictive policing and crime analytics with a spatiotemporal focus get increasing attention among a variety of scientific communities and are already being implemented as effective policing tools. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview and evaluation of the state of the art in spatial crime forecasting focusing on study design and technical aspects. We follow the PRISMA guidelines for reporting this systematic literature review and we analyse 32 papers from 2000 to 2018 that were selected from 786 papers that entered the screening phase and a total of 193 papers that went through the eligibility phase. The eligibility phase included several criteria that were grouped into: (a) the publication type, (b) relevance to research scope, and (c) study characteristics. The most predominant type of forecasting inference is the hotspots (i.e. binary classification) method. Traditional machine learning methods were mostly used, but also kernel density estimation based approaches, and less frequently point process and deep learning approaches. The top measures of evaluation performance are the Prediction Accuracy, followed by the Prediction Accuracy Index, and the F1-Score. Finally, the most common validation approach was the train-test split while other approaches include the cross-validation, the leave one out, and the rolling horizon. Current studies often lack a clear reporting of study experiments, feature engineering procedures, and are using inconsistent terminology to address similar problems. Crime Science Journal 27/5/2020 Research article Four police officers fired following death of unarmed black man who had neck knelt on during arrest 'This is the right call' The Independent 27/5/2020 News Arrest death: Shocking video shows police officer kneeling on handcuffed black man’s neck for several minutes before his death Shocking video has emerged showing a police officer kneeling on handcuffed black man's neck until he dies. The Sun 27/5/2020 News Hong Kong police arrest hundreds and fire pepper pellets amid fresh unrest Police in Hong Kong have arrested about 300 people and fired pepper pellets amid new anti-mainland unrest. BBC 27/5/2020 News Governments urged to work together to stop health care cyber attacks Red Cross among those calling on governments to address coronavirus-related cyberattacks IT PRO 27/5/2020 News Women suffering ‘domestic and spiritual abuse’ in lockdown, religious leaders warn We cannot ignore that there are perpetrators within all our faith communities;' says joint statement. The Independent 27/5/2020 News Rob Roberts: Police called to break up ‘party’ at Conservative MP’s house Two people ordered to leave property after neighbours report visitors arriving while balloons and banners placed outside The Independent 27/5/2020 News Met arrest almost 40 suspected online CSE offenders in one week The Metropolitan Police made 38 arrests during a week long operation targeting online child sexual abuse amid growing concerns of the risk posed to children during the lockdown. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 27/5/2020 News Review of FPNs in wake of Cummings row a waste of police time Former prosecutor warns of lawyers doing a 'dom defence' on behalf of their clients. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 27/5/2020 News Do Offenders Avoid Offending Near Home? A Systematic Review of the Buffer Zone Hypothesis There is general agreement that the frequency of crime decreases with the distance from the offender’s home. By way of exception to this distance decay pattern, the buffer zone hypothesis states that offenders avoid offending very close to home. The purpose of the present study was to assess the validity of this hypothesis. We conducted a systematic literature review of 4 bibliographic databases, in which we identified 108 studies on criminal distance decay, from which we selected 33 studies that include sufficient information to assess the existence of the buffer zone. Based on the full text of the research articles, we created a measure indicating whether the study supported or rejected the hypothesis and a measure summarizing the relative quality of the evidence as either weak-medium or strong. Of the 33 studies, 22 rejected the buffer zone hypothesis and 11 supported it. Across the whole sample, the methodological rigor of the studies was limited, but unrelated to whether the buffer zone hypothesis was supported or rejected. Based on the available evidence the buffer zone hypothesis has gained limited support. We conclude by making recommendations on how to report data on the home-crime distance and suggesting a testing methodology for future research. Crime Science Journal 27/5/2020 Research article «334233433344334533463347334833493350Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
