Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103270 total results. Showing results 67221 to 67240 «335833593360336133623363336433653366Next ›Last » Police urge motorists to ‘Slow Down, Save Lives’ Monday, 18 May 2020, sees the launch of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) speed enforcement operation. With the gradual relaxing of lockdown restrictions police forces throughout the UK will be taking part in a two phase operation to remind motorists of the importance of travelling within the speed limit. This operation is deliberately timed as travel restrictions start to ease, to keep people safe as the volume of traffic increases. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 18/5/2020 News Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 Blog from APCC’s national lead for Mental Health, Matthew Scott, PCC for Kent Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) 18/5/2020 News APCC apologises to Federation amid Taser training calls The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) has apologised to the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) after its use of force lead called for an urgent review of Taser training. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 18/5/2020 News Human rights review launched into police response to Covid-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland The Northern Ireland Policing Board has launched a review into the PSNI's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Belfast Telegraph 18/5/2020 News Police and Crime Commissioners: New Agents of Crime and Justice Policy Transfer? This article argues that the police accountability and governance reforms introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government (2010–2015) have created a new window for ‘international-subnational’ crime and justice policy transfer to occur in England and Wales by placing Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) into a local strategic leadership position. It begins by providing an account of the emergence of PCCs and the controversies that have surrounded them, while at the same time maintaining that they are unlikely to be abolished in the foreseeable future. Three reasons as to why PCCs may seek to import policies from abroad are then presented, encompassing ballot-box politicking, hyper-awareness of constituency discontent and a demonstrated willingness to pioneer new crime control initiatives. Subsequent to presenting an international-subnational policy transfer case study – that of London’s Compulsory Sobriety Pilot – several analytical and practice-based ‘lessons’ are outlined pertaining to the process of emulating non-indigenous subnational crime control innovations. Policing and Society 18/5/2020 Research article olice officers are working in dangerous situations without protection from coronavirus – and now they’re getting ill Every Thursday we clap for our frontline care workers, but we rarely talk about the frontline police officers who have only basic protective equipment and are just as at risk of contracting Covid-19 The Independent 18/5/2020 News Citizen Journalism and Public Cynicism Toward Police in the USA The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the source of media imagery on participant cynicism toward the police and explore the relationship between media source and the severity of sanctions imposed on police as a result of the portrayed actions. Participants (N = 93) completed a semantic differential scale measuring participants’ attitudes toward members of various occupations followed by a survey to measure baseline cynicism. Then, participants viewed a video of police behavior which was manipulated according to media source and completed a second cynicism measure and demographic survey. Participants were then asked whether to impose a sanction on the police officers. Results indicated that there were no differences in cynicism between groups prior to viewing the video; however, there were statistically significant differences in cynicism between groups after exposure to Citizen Video Journalism (CVJ) from different media sources revealing that cynicism was greater with the group that viewed CVJ from the social media source than from the broadcast media source. Furthermore, results indicated statistical significance between groups and severity of sanctions imposed on police after CVJ video exposure. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 18/5/2020 Research article The Impact of Interviewer Working Hours on Police Interviews With Children Fatigue resulting from unpredictable or extended working conditions is a factor that negatively impacts the performance of police officers. In this study, we considered how investigative interviewing of children is influenced by interviewer working conditions. We examined two working conditions concerning when interviews were conducted: (a) during early duty shift and (b) an hour before the end of an interviewer’s duty shift and after the end of a shift. We analysed 102 police interviews with children and identified clues that interviews which commenced during early duty shift had more appropriate approaches than interviews in the other condition. Inappropriate approaches were not significantly affected by interviewer working conditions. These outcomes suggest considering new knowledge specific to the behaviour of interviewers according to working conditions and provide promising foundations for further research. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 18/5/2020 Research article Exploring Gender Differences in Domestic Violence Reported to the NSW Police Force Whether men and women are equally violent in their intimate relationships has animated considerable debate in the scholarly literature, and increasingly, in policy and law reform processes. This debate about the gendered nature of domestic violence (DV) has re-intensified over the past decade with police data from various countries documenting an increase in women identified as DV offenders. While there has been considerable research exploring the increase in women DV offenders overseas (particularly in the USA) there has been little research in Australia. This article seeks to fill some of these gaps. It reports on a NSW study which explored differences between women and men identified as ‘persons of interest’ in an incident reported to police in 2010, and then over time (2006–2012) to see whether that person was the predominant victim or offender. Current Issues in Criminal Justice - Registration at source 18/5/2020 Research article Neighborhood Climates of Legal Cynicism and Complaints About Abuse of Police Power Research findings show that legal cynicism—a cultural frame in which skepticism about laws, the legal system, and police is expressed—is important in understanding neighborhood variation in engagement with the police, particularly in racially isolated African American communities. We argue that legal cynicism is also useful for understanding neighborhood variation in complaints about police misconduct. Using data on complaints filed in Chicago between 2012 and 2014, we show that grievances disproportionately came from racially segregated neighborhoods and that a measure of legal cynicism from the mid‐1990s predicts complaints about abuse of police power two decades later. The association between legal cynicism and complaints is net of prior complaints, reported crime, imprisonment, and other structural factors that contribute to the frequency and nature of interactions involving police and residents. Legal cynicism also mediates the influence of racially isolated neighborhoods on complaints. The mid‐1990s is the approximate midpoint of a half‐century of police scandals in Chicago. Criminology 18/5/2020 Research article Police to patrol train stations as services ramp up with more commuters expected today Passengers without a reservation will be stopped from boarding trains and police will be deployed to manage rush hour crowds as services are ramped up this morning. Metro 18/5/2020 News Police boss calls for Welsh Government U-turn after poll shows 91% support for increasing travel fines A police boss is calling on the Welsh Government to do a U-turn and increase fines for breaking coronavirus travel restrictions after an opinion poll came out overwhelmingly in favour of the idea. The Leader 18/5/2020 News Best case scenario: What a post-pandemic future could look like for policing Many countries are beginning to ease lockdown restrictions, but as the world charts a path out of the pandemic, the future remains uncertain for all including policing. Assistant Director of Strategic Foresight for the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) Mike Richmond examines the different post-pandemic 'scenarios' that law enforcement may be faced with in the coming months and years. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 18/5/2020 Analysis, Feature Neighborhood Climates of Legal Cynicism and Complaints About Abuse of Police Power† Research findings show that legal cynicism—a cultural frame in which skepticism about laws, the legal system, and police is expressed—is important in understanding neighborhood variation in engagement with the police, particularly in racially isolated African American communities. We argue that legal cynicism is also useful for understanding neighborhood variation in complaints about police misconduct. Using data on complaints filed in Chicago between 2012 and 2014, we show that grievances disproportionately came from racially segregated neighborhoods and that a measure of legal cynicism from the mid‐1990s predicts complaints about abuse of police power two decades later. The association between legal cynicism and complaints is net of prior complaints, reported crime, imprisonment, and other structural factors that contribute to the frequency and nature of interactions involving police and residents. Legal cynicism also mediates the influence of racially isolated neighborhoods on complaints. The mid‐1990s is the approximate midpoint of a half‐century of police scandals in Chicago. Our research findings suggest that contemporary complaints about police misconduct in highly segregated Chicago neighborhoods are grounded in collectively shared historical memories of police malfeasance. They also suggest that persistent complaints about police misconduct may represent officially memorialized expressions of enduring racial protest against police abuse of power. Criminology 18/5/2020 Research article Predicting Police Officer Seat Belt Use: Evidence-Based Solutions to Improve Officer Driving Safety One of the hidden dangers of police work is self-imposed—the failure to wear seat belts. Unfortunately, little evidence exists concerning the factors that account for why officers do not wear their seat belts. This study used a sample of 450 police officers to develop and test a framework for understanding the predictors of seat belt use. We found several factors that were associated with the frequency of officer seat belt use: the perceived likelihood of supervisors enforcing seat belt and other driving policies, organizational justice, having a departmental colleague previously struck by a vehicle, law enforcement experience, risky driving attitudes, number of prior on-duty collisions, being a patrol officer versus supervisor, and perceived risk of being involved in a vehicle collision. We discuss the practical implications of these findings as they apply to efforts aimed at improving officer driving safety and subsequent reduction in related injuries and deaths. Police Quarterly - Registration at source 18/5/2020 Research article The vehicle fleet of the future: Gloucestershire turns electric dreams into a reality While many forces have trialled alternative energy vehicles, Gloucestershire Constabulary is now the trailblazer for UK policing, with electric vehicles (EVs) making up more than 20% of its fleet. Policing Insight spoke to Head of Transport Services Steve Imms about all things electric – including rural charging infrastructure, range anxiety EV response capability, and the holy grail of alternative fuelling. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 18/5/2020 Analysis, Feature Covid-19: Implications for policing from a Scottish perspective The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for policing are far-reaching. Dr Liz Aston, Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), explores some of them further, particularly from a Scottish perspective. Policing Insight 18/5/2020 Analysis, Feature Police procurement in a time of crisis: How a fresh approach can hold a fragile supply chain together The global pandemic has illustrated that policing does not operate in a vacuum when it comes to delivering public services. Policing Insight's Publisher Bernard Rix looks at how one supplier worked with UK police forces, the Police ICT Company and the National Police Technology Council to ensure previously office-based work could be rapidly undertaken by police officers and staff in their own homes. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 18/5/2020 Feature, Opinion Prince William thanks officers for their tireless work during the coronavirus crisis The Duke of Cambridge has thanked police officers for their “remarkable” work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Police Professional 18/5/2020 News Force remembers heroic officer Nottinghamshire Police has paid tribute to Police Constable Christopher McDonald, the first of its officers to be killed in the line of duty, laying a wreath at force headquarters to mark the anniversary of his death. Police Professional 18/5/2020 News «335833593360336133623363336433653366Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
