Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 92006 total results. Showing results 71761 to 71780 «358535863587358835893590359135923593Next ›Last » ‘Startling’ amount of police time spent looking for missing people, meeting hears The amount of police time spent looking for missing people has been branded “startling” by West Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner. The Yorkshire Post 14/9/2018 News Children as young as EIGHT are used as drug mules by gangs making up to £5,000-a-day exploiting them to run narcotics over ‘county lines’ Children as young as eight are being used as mules by 'county lines' gangs who traffic Class A drugs into rural areas of the UK. Mail Online 14/9/2018 News Senior Scotland Yard officer faces the sack for using ‘racist’ term ‘whiter than white’ A senior officer with the Met Police faces the sack after he was accused of racism for using the phrase 'whiter than white'. Mail Online 14/9/2018 News Response to paper on chief officer appointments The National Police Chiefs' Council has written a paper to look at issues regarding the appointment of chief officers, entitled 'Chief constable preparation, selection, tenure and retirement in the new landscape of policing.’ Last year the College of Policing published a report and found that policing benefits from the widest pool of exceptional talent coming through the ranks and highlights the importance of having systems in place to make the role of chief constable more desirable. You can read the report here or a shorter executive summary here. College of Policing 14/9/2018 News Joint statement on chief officer recruitment and tenure The National Police Chiefs’ Council, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and the College of Policing has released a joint statement on the issue of chief officer recruitment and tenure. A round table has been set up to discuss these issues in detail. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 14/9/2018 News Police Chiefs’ blog: CC Sara Thornton – Who wants to be a chief constable? Right now, sadly, the answer to this is too few people. We need to ask ourselves why and act on it. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 14/9/2018 Feature, Opinion College: More disclosure training will not fix root issues There needs to be a culture change among officers. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 14/9/2018 News More white suspects than Asians in latest terror arrests Anti-terror police have arrested more white suspects than people of Asian appearance in a year for the first time in more than a decade, figures reveal. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 14/9/2018 News Surveillance violated human rights rules, European court finds Bulk interception found to violate citizens' right to have private life respected. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 14/9/2018 News Decline in paramiltary aspect to domestic violence, research finds Research by Ulster University has found men are much less likely to use paramilitary influence or weapons to threaten their domestic partners since the Belfast Agreement. News Letter (Northern Ireland) 14/9/2018 News Plans for new Gwent Police headquarters could be given the go-ahead next week Plans for Gwent Police to move to a new headquarters could be given the green light next week. The force plans to leave its current base of more than 40 years in Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran, to move to a new ‘purpose-built’ headquarters in Llantarnam, also in Cwmbran. Abergavenny Chronicle 14/9/2018 News Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner issues funding plea to Government after figures show three quarters of household burglaries go unresolved in county Ongoing Government funding cutbacks are stretching the already thin blue line and may have "serious implications" for the future of Cheshire police's ability to tackle crime. The Standard (Chester) 14/9/2018 News Police need resources, not new laws, to tackle trespassing Legislation already exists to prevent travellers staying on land without permission. The problem is that officers are too stretched to enforce it The Times - Subscription at source 14/9/2018 Analysis, Feature Hampshire police use ‘stop and search’ powers more than 8,000 times Black and minority ethnic people in Hampshire are more than three times as likely to be the subject of a police stop-and-search, figures show. Daily Echo (Southern) 14/9/2018 News Staffordshire Police recruiting 100 new officers (and you can earn a degree on the job!) Staffordshire Police are looking to recruit more than 100 new officers – as the way people can enter the force changes. Training for new officers is being overhauled nationally, as policing looks to follow similar patterns to nursing and other public service careers where new recruits learn while on the job. Stoke on Trent Live 14/9/2018 News Half of the 537 complaints about Dorset Police are finalised by ‘less formal local resolution process’ Dorset Police recorded 537 complaints last year - an increase of six per cent on 2016/17. The figures were released by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) yesterday. The organisation says there are wide discrepancies nationally in the way forces handle complaints. Daily Echo (Southern) 14/9/2018 News North Yorkshire Police complaints down – but force takes longer to deal with them Police in North Yorkshire received fewer complaints last year, but took 80 per cent longer than the national average to respond to them. The Press (York) 14/9/2018 News This is the number of complaints being made against West Midlands Police New figures also reveal a quarter of complaints against the force were dealt with by “local resolution”. The number of complaints against West Midlands Police has fallen for a second year in a row - with the force now having one of the lowest complaint rates in the country. Birmingham Live 14/9/2018 News Police Use of Force: An Examination of the Minority Threat Perspective The minority threat perspective suggests that the criminal justice system may be one mechanism through which the majority group (i.e. Whites) maintains control of culturally dissimilar minority groups. Although numerous studies have examined the relationship between minority representation and various policing outcomes, few have extended this research to police use of force in the context of stop-and-frisk practices. Using stop, question, and frisk data from the New York Police Department, this study examines (1) whether racial and ethnic composition influences police use of force, and (2) whether an individual’s race/ethnicity interacts with the racial/ethnic composition of a police precinct to produce disparities in police use of force. The results provide partial support for the minority threat perspective. Criminal Justice Studies - Registration at source 14/9/2018 Research article Bill Carmichael: No offence South Yorkshire Police, but why not fight real crime? South Yorkshire must be a wonderful place – no 11-year-old girls gang raped and trafficked into prostitution, no murders or shootings, no stabbings or muggings or theft, no cars stolen, no sign of any drug dealing and not a single burglary in the entire county. It is a crime-free paradise on Earth. Well, that’s the only possible explanation for the extraordinary decision by South Yorkshire Police this week to launch a campaign to encourage citizens to report “non-crime hate incidents”. The Yorkshire Post 14/9/2018 Feature, Opinion «358535863587358835893590359135923593Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
