Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115881 total results. Showing results 71121 to 71140 «355335543555355635573558355935603561Next ›Last » Pre-Arrest Diversion to Addiction Treatment By Law Enforcement: Protocol For the Community-Level Policing Initiative to Reduce Addiction-Related Harm, Including Crime Despite evidence that treatment reduces addiction-related harms, including crime and overdose, only a minority of addiction-affected individuals receive it. Linking individuals who committed an addiction-related crime to addiction treatment could improve outcomes. The aim of this city-wide, pre-arrest diversion program, Madison Addiction Recovery Initiative (MARI) is to reduce crime and improve health (i.e., reduce the overdose deaths) among adults who committed a minor, non-violent, drug use-related offense by offering them a referral to treatment in lieu of arrest and prosecution of criminal charges. This manuscript outlines the protocol and methods for the MARI program development and implementation. MARI requires its participants to engage in the recommended treatment, without reoffending, during the six-month program, after which the initial criminal charges are “voided” by the law enforcement agency. The project, implemented in a mid-size U.S. city, has involved numerous partners, including law enforcement, criminal justice, public health, and academia. It includes training of the police officer workforce and collaboration with clinical partners for treatment need assessment, treatment placement, and peer support. Program evaluation includes formative, process, outcome (participant-level) and exploratory impact (community-level) assessments. Health and Justice 10/3/2021 Research article The Global Illicit Economy: Trajectories of Organized Crime Through stark images and charts, this report gives a graphic illustration of how the global illicit economy has boomed in the past 20 years and how it poses a serious threat to security, development and justice. Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime 10/3/2021 Report The Impact of Covid-19 on UK Informant Use and Management The effect of COVID-19 on informant use and management, during the peak of the imposed Government lockdown measures was felt across English and Welsh police Dedicated Source Units. Within these restrictions, staff managing informants had to develop and then implement new strategies that delivered safe, yet effective, informant handling capacity and capability. Based on a survey of 205 respondents directly involved in the handling, control or authorisation of informants, this article examined their perceptions of the effect of COVID-19 in this highly specialised policing activity. The research findings revealed five broad themes associated with the impact of COVID-19 on informant management practices: (i) health protection; (ii) governance; (iii) innovation and technology; (iv) recruitment, communication and informant development and (v) tradecraft and intelligence. The article explored the organisational responses to initiating and maintaining informant-handler relationships and ensuring the flow of intelligence within this unique operational environment. Participants perceived that handler-informant relationships were strengthened, and also indications of a willingness to adapt policy and procedure associated with the informant management cycle: targeting, initial recruitment contact, assessment and evaluation, tasking and deployment and payment of informant rewards. It also highlighted a wider consensus that there was further scope for enhancing resilience to similar future pandemics including the use of enabling technology and responsive policy adaptation. Policing and Society 10/3/2021 Research article Can Familiarity Between An Adolescent Eyewitness and A Perpetrator Influence Identification Accuracy? Most eyewitness research focuses on stranger identifications, despite the fact that eyewitnesses may also be asked to identify a familiar person. The current study examined the role of eyewitness-perpetrator familiarity and line-up procedure on adolescent eyewitness identification accuracy. Familiarity was manipulated wherein participants (N = 623) directly interacted, indirectly interacted, or did not meet a confederate before viewing the confederate commit a mock crime. Lineup procedure (simultaneous, sequential, elimination-plus) and target presence were manipulated. Familiarity increased the likelihood of correct identifications in target-present lineups when the sequential lineup procedure was used, whereas familiarity increased the likelihood of correct rejections in target-absent lineups when the simultaneous or elimination-plus procedures were used. These findings suggest that familiarity with a perpetrator can influence identification accuracy. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 10/3/2021 Research article Does Organizational Climate Moderate the Relationship Between Psychological Hardiness and Adherence to Criminal Investigation Procedure Among Police Investigating Officers The aim of this study was to explore the moderating role of organizational climate on the relationship between psychological hardiness and adherence to criminal investigation procedure (ACIP). A total of 403 Nigerian police investigators selected purposefully from the headquarters of Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID) in the five South Eastern states of Nigeria were assessed on the predictor variable psychological hardiness, moderating variable organizational climate, and on the outcome variable ACIP using self-report questionnaire. The result of Moderated multiple regression analysis showed that psychological hardiness and organizational climate predicted the variance in ACIP. Similarly, organizational climate moderated the relationship between psychological hardiness and ACIP. The findings show that both psychological hardiness and organization climate are relevant factors for enhancing ACIP among investigating police officers. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 10/3/2021 Research article Dissecting A Criminal Investigation Despite the considerable attention criminologists devote to the study of policing, they tend to ignore one of its most important functions. Detectives comprise approximately 16% of law enforcement personnel and play a major role in the public’s image of the police through their successes or failures. This scholarly lacuna is even more surprising given the gateway position held by police investigators; unless a crime is solved and an individual arrested, the entire remainder of the criminal justice system—prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, juries, probation, prisons, parole, rehabilitation—fails to come into play. What research that has explored this function has been primarily interested in organizational and technical aspects of detective work. Here, I take a different approach by dissecting criminal investigations to expose their underlying structure—what they involve, how they fail, and ways they might be improved. Specific areas of interest include the functional phases of an investigation, the definition and nature of evidence, and the systemic structure of criminal investigative failures. The Gail Miller-David Milgaard murder investigation in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is used as a case study. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 10/3/2021 Research article IOPC research highlights concerns over ‘disproportionate’ use of stop and search Young people and those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) background feel stop and search can be “discriminatory and disproportionate” according to research by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Police Professional 10/3/2021 News ‘Shocking’ development as serving MPS officer arrested over Sarah Everard disappearance A Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officer has been arrested at an address in Kent in connection with the disappearance of Sarah Everard, the force has announced. Police Professional 10/3/2021 News Former police chief superintendent named as Scotland’s first biometrics commissioner A former police chief superintendent and policing inspector has been chosen as Scotland’s first biometrics commissioner. Holyrood Magazine 10/3/2021 News Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021: overarching documents These documents relate to the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021. Home Office 10/3/2021 News Serious Violence Reduction Orders CONSULTATION OUTCOME; This is the government’s response to the public consultation on Serious Violence Reduction Orders. Home Office 10/3/2021 Report Sarah Everard disappearance: Met Police officer arrested A Metropolitan Police officer has been arrested over the disappearance of Sarah Everard in south London in a "serious and significant development". BBC 10/3/2021 News Priti Patel tells how she was threatened with a glass bottle on her doorstep The Home Secretary spoke about the incident as the maximum jail term for assaulting emergency workers is being doubled to two years Mirror 10/3/2021 News New Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner appointed The Home Secretary has appointed Fraser Sampson as the government’s new independent Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner. Home Office 10/3/2021 News Dubai Police leads the way in improving workplace environments for law enforcement employees While the private sector is increasingly recognising and benchmarking the importance of a high-quality workplace environment in achieving improved performance, the public sector his still some way behind; Dubai Police consultant Jorge Román explains how the force is leading the way, by becoming the first police agency to secure accreditation from the Great Place to Work Institute. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 10/3/2021 Feature, Opinion Police officer sacked after sending sexual video of himself while in uniform PC Jonathan Finch was found to have sent 771 messages "most of which were sexual in nature" and planned "sexual activity". Sky News 10/3/2021 News Sarah Everard: Serving Met Police officer arrested over disappearance of London woman Missing 33-year-old not seen since leaving friend’s house in Clapham last Wednesday The Independent 10/3/2021 News The radical idea to reduce crime by policing less, not more Evidence-based policing aims to make policing more fair, by treating it like medicine – running controlled trials to see which interventions work, and which don't Wired 10/3/2021 Feature Richard Pusey: Australian admits filming taunts of dying policewoman An Australian man has pleaded guilty to filming and mocking police officers as they lay dying at a crash scene. BBC 10/3/2021 News Police accused of failure to manage fans’ celebrations Police Scotland have been accused of failing to protect the public by escorting Rangers fans to Glasgow city centre after the club clinched their first league title in a decade. The Times - Subscription at source 10/3/2021 News «355335543555355635573558355935603561Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
