Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100784 total results. Showing results 67361 to 67380 «336533663367336833693370337133723373Next ›Last » Offences involving the use of weapons: data tables Data tables relating to offences involving weapons as recorded by police and hospital episode statistics. Office for National Statistics (ONS) 13/2/2020 Report Gun crime rises in UK in last year with more than 9,700 cases reported Gun crime has increased by 4% in one year with more than 9,700 crimes involving firearms taking place in the UK. Sky News 13/2/2020 News UK drug barons ditch banks for money service businesses Met’s head of specialist crime says MSBs are now thought to be main way to launder cash The Guardian 13/2/2020 News If the UK cares about justice, it must fund forensic services properly Budget cuts in England and Wales have reduced independent oversight – and could lead to serious miscarriages of justice The Guardian 13/2/2020 Feature, Opinion Police were ordered to target children who were ‘possibly’ indigenous – as officers performed more than 200,000 strip searches Children who were 'possibly' indigenous were targeted by police under a plan that saw them perform random strip searches. Mail Online 13/2/2020 News Police Trust-Building Strategies. A Socio-Institutional, Comparative Approach Police require public trust to do their work well. Recognising this, police organisations across Europe implement various methods to gain trust: trust-building strategies. Surprisingly, the field of trust in the police and police legitimacy has paid scant attention to what the police actually do to improve trust. The present contribution outlines an approach to understanding police trust-building strategies in their social and institutional context applying a comparative, dynamic perspective. Departing from the assumption that trust and legitimacy exist in a dialogue between the public and the police, the author argues that trust-building strategies develop in an unpredictable, dynamic complex of interrelated social and institutional factors. What is seen as a suitable trust-building strategy is determined by dominant ‘rationalised myths’, ways of thinking about what good police work should look like. These are shaped by a diverse range of different actors and factors. This complex affects each phase in the development of police trust-building strategies: problem recognition, generation of strategies, and adoption of strategies. Illustrating the value of the socio-institutional approach towards trust-building strategies, each of these phases is discussed in the context of a comparative, dynamic study of police trust-building strategies in England and Wales, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Policing and Society 13/2/2020 Research article Explaining Citizen Support For Women Police in India In this paper, we examine citizen support for female police officers in India. More specifically, we examined the relationship of citizens’ perceptions of police effectiveness, corruption, general satisfaction with police, and contact experiences with their support for women police in India, a society that is patriarchal with strong gender role stereotypes. Findings suggest that older residents living in urban areas are supportive of more women police, but contact has no bearing on the dependent variable. Perceived corruption of the police, in general, was a strong predictor for citizen support for female police officers. However, perceived police effectiveness and satisfaction is negatively related to support for women police. It is argued that apart from expanding the strength of female police officers in all female police stations, they should also be deployed more widely in patrol functions to enhance the visibility and value of women in crime and security responsibilities. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 13/2/2020 Research article Like A Cat on Hot Bricks: the Detection of Anomalous Behavior in Airports Airports are critical infrastructures that require special protection. Public spaces are considered vulnerable areas and a possible target for general crime as well as terrorism. Because of the latest terrorist attacks which targeted vulnerable areas in airports, it is essential to test proactive methods capable of helping to detect potential threats. In this context, there are also other illicit activities closely related to civil air transport, which must also be addressed. First, we propose a theoretical framework to explain the presence and detection of anomalous behaviors. Therefore, in this research, we start by analyzing the behavior of airport users (N = 352) in terms of “patterns of movement,” “patterns of communication,” indicators activated by the autonomic nervous system, and object adaptors. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 13/2/2020 Research article Hot Spots Policing in A High-Crime Environment: An Experimental Evaluation in Medellín Test direct, spillover, and aggregate effects of hot spots policing on crime in a high-crime environment. We identified 967 hot spot street segments and randomly assigned 384 to a six-month increase in police patrols. To account for the complications resulting from a large experimental sample in a dense network of streets, we use randomization inference for hypothesis testing. We also use non-experimental streets to test for spillovers onto non-hot spots and examine aggregate effects citywide. Our results show an improvement in short-term security perceptions and a reduction in car thefts, but no direct effects on other crimes or satisfaction with policing services. We see larger effects in the least secure places, especially for short-term security perceptions, car thefts, and assaults. We find no evidence of crime displacement but rather a decrease in car thefts in nearby hot spots and a decrease in assaults in nearby non-hot spots. We estimate that car thefts decreased citywide by about 11%. Our study highlights the importance of context when implementing hot spots policing. What seems to work in the USA or even in Bogotá is not as responsive in Medellín (and vice versa). Further research—especially outside the USA—is needed to understand the role of local crime patterns and police capacity on the effectiveness of hot spots policing. Journal of Experimental Criminology - Registration at source 13/2/2020 Research article ‘it’s Not Ok to Shoot and Kill Americans’: Families’ Perceptions of Police Use of Lethal Force in the United States This article examines the police use of lethal force against American citizens from the perspective of families affected by these deaths. It is based on qualitative research undertaken with family members who lost loved ones after police contact in the United States. The article examines how organizational practices and cultures are perceived to enable the use of lethal force, and how multiple narratives are employed to legitimize its use in the aftermath of a citizen’s death. It considers how procedural justice might provide a framework that enables an understanding of how these deaths are perceived by sections of US society. Key findings are that families believe police uses lethal force with relative impunity due to an aggressive mindset and a lack of effective regulation. The article further finds that symbolic legitimation strategies reward officers for using lethal force, and denigrate the deceased enabling these deaths to be classified as justified. Journal of Crime and Justice - Registration at source 13/2/2020 Research article Generation and Deployment of Common Law Police Powers By Canadian Courts and the Double-Edged Charter In recent years, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the “Charter”) has been relied on increasingly by Canadian courts to bolster common law police powers, often at the expense of due process. Ostensibly, the courts have shown more concern with the administration of the limits of policing than with the delineation of civil liberties. In this article, we trace the evolution of the interpretation of the Charter in this context, with early decisions suggesting a reluctance to create ex post facto police powers. The article then outlines the acceleration of judicial proliferation of common law police powers in Canada, cloaked in the veil of the Charter. In other words, unauthorized police conduct is legitimized by the courts on an ad hoc basis, so long as it is ultimately justifiable. We then discuss the findings of our own research into this phenomenon and comment on the possible implications that increasingly expansive common law police powers created by courts have had on due process in Canada, and the administrative role of the Supreme Court of Canada in mobilizing civil rights protections in the direction of state surveillance. Critical Criminology - Registration at source 13/2/2020 Research article A seismic decade for UK policing: How 20,000 officers can transform UK policing New investment offers a huge opportunity to reshape UK policing, but there are still difficult choices to be made. In a co-authored article, Deloitte's UK Policing Lead Partner Richard Hobbs (pictured) and Strategic Adviser Tom Gash examine the emerging themes in Deloitte's 'Policing 4.0: How 20,000 officers can transform UK policing' and their implications for the service. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 13/2/2020 Analysis PSNI data: European court rules ID policy breaches human rights The indefinite storage of a convicted drink driver's DNA profile, photo and fingerprints by police is a breach of human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. BBC 13/2/2020 News Police keeping drink-driver’s DNA breached his rights, judges rule UK police who indefinitely retained in their records the DNA profile of a man convicted of drink-driving breached his human rights, Strasbourg judges have ruled. The Guardian 13/2/2020 News Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner criticises court delays Police and Crime Commissioner David Munro has warned that more capacity is needed in the court system after a signifcant reduction in the number of sitting days on the South East regional circuit. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 13/2/2020 News Home Secretary announces public inquiry into police shooting A public inquiry has been launched into a police shooting incident involving an escaping prisoner attempt despite a High Court ruling quashing an IOPC bid to have the firearms officer face disciplinary proceedings for excessive use of force. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 13/2/2020 News See police try out their latest gizmo in the fight against Gloucestershire criminals The war against the ancient crime of poaching has gone hi-tech at Gloucestershire police. Gloucestershire Live 13/2/2020 News Dashcam footage exposes police officer’s fraudulent insurance claims A serving police officer, who claimed a piece of debris cracked the windscreen of his car causing injury and vehicle repair costs, has been sentenced after dashcam footage exposed his insurance claims as fraudulent. Police Professional 13/2/2020 News ‘I’ve been ripped from my family’: deportee struggles to cope in Jamaica Chevon Brown was sent to country where he has no close relatives after committing a driving offence The Guardian 13/2/2020 News World Class Policing: The Wiltshire Police-led response to the Novichok poisonings Wiltshire Police’s role in leading an extraordinary co-ordinated response to the unprecedented 2018 Novichok attacks in Salisbury and Amesbury was recognised as a winner at the recent inaugural World Class Policing Awards sponsored by Accenture. In the sixth of twelve articles focusing on the award-winning nominations, Keith Potter takes a closer look at an outstanding multi-agency operation. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 13/2/2020 Innovation «336533663367336833693370337133723373Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
