Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 98401 total results. Showing results 71761 to 71780 «358535863587358835893590359135923593Next ›Last » Police seize more than 10,000 knives in one week A week of intensified action on knife crime has resulted in police arresting 1,372 people, including 516 for a knife related offence, and seizing more than 10,000 weapons. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 30/5/2019 News Revolutionary new tools to tackle streaming of child abuse Technology will help to detect streams, target perpetrators and support victims. Home Office 30/5/2019 News Tech giants and academics urge GCHQ to desert “ghost proposal” Large technology companies, academics and civil rights campaigners have called on GCHQ to abandon a proposal that could see police and security services entering online encrypted conversations as a “ghost user”. Police Professional 30/5/2019 News Race hate crime against children increased 22 per cent in three years The number of racially motivated hate crimes against children has reached a “three year high”, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Police Professional 30/5/2019 News Review of previous convictions being considered after ‘expert’ evidence discredited A £7 million fraud case has collapsed after the only police expert on the issue was revealed to have cut-and-pasted his evidence for several cases. Police Professional 30/5/2019 News Using Cameras of Automatic Number Plate Recognition System For Seat Belt Enforcement A Case Study of Sanliurfa (Turkey) The purpose of this paper is to quantify the effect of the enforcement, which was carried out with ANPRs, on seat belt use. Though the Seat belt Act was enacted in 1992, it did not lead to an expected increase in seat belt use in Turkey including Sanliurfa, which is one of the immense provinces with a population of over 2m. The Sanliurfa Police Department set in an enforcement campaign, in which automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras were used to facilitate an increment in using seat belts in the city center. Under the police leadership, seat belt use enforcement campaign was hugely publicized and sustained throughout the city. The ANPRs did not have a feature to detect seat belt wearing automatically. Thus, this study tested whether automated plate recognition cameras have a deterrence effect on seat belt usage. To assess the efficacy of this enforcement project, the authors employed a pre/post-implementation design. For this study, the records of the 11 ANPR camera sites, 2 non-camera sites and 2 control sites were utilized. Policing: An International Journal - Registration at source 30/5/2019 Research article Procedural Justice Concerns and Support For BWCs: Turning the Lens to Officer Perceptions The prpose of this paper is to explore factors that drive officer support for body-worn cameras (BWCs). Results of an officer perceptions survey completed as part of an evaluation of the Chicago Police Department’s BWC project are presented. The influence of treatment- and outcome-oriented justice concerns on officer support for BWCs is explored with a variety of covariates.Outcome-oriented concerns are a significant predictor of officer support for BWCs, while treatment-oriented concerns are not. The research enhances understandings of the applicability of procedural justice theorizing in policing generally, and offers direction important to the meaningful use of BWCs. This finding runs counter to dominant relational models of procedural justice that concentrate on the perspective of subordinates, but lends support to arguments advocating the centrality of role (authority vs subordinate) in the formation of justice evaluations. Policing: An International Journal 30/5/2019 Research article Tech giants slam GCHQ’s ‘ghost protocol’ plan to eavesdrop on our encrypted chats A plan from the UK spy agency to peer into our encrypted communications has been slammed by the big tech companies. Metro 30/5/2019 News White heterosexual male rejected by Cheshire Police given role A police force has given a job to a man who was initially not employed because he was white, heterosexual and male. BBC 30/5/2019 News Understanding the Effectiveness of Performance Management System The purpose of this paper is to explore factors that can influence on the police officer’s perception of the effectiveness of the performance management system (PMS). This study examines the effect of the attitude of employees and causal relationships between organizational/individual factors and the effectiveness of PMS during the implementation process. The authors conducted a nationwide online survey of 10,619 police officers in South Korea. Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze multiple relationships simultaneously. The authors constructed a baseline model and also examined an alternative model in order to increase the model’s explanatory power. Police officers’ perception of the understanding of the PMS, manager’s concern, participation and performance information (PI) usage exerted significant effects on the perceived effectiveness of the PMS. However, the relation between understanding of the PMS and PI usage was not significant. The study identified organizational and institutional settings for the success of the PMS. Policing: An International Journal 30/5/2019 Research article Rape victim told by police ‘don’t have therapy as it can be used against you in court’ A rape victim was warned that anything she said in therapy could be used against her in court after she reported her attack to the Met Police in 2017. Metro 30/5/2019 News ‘Force, staff and public cannot afford to lose our best-ever chief’ The “substantial progress” of Humberside under Chief Constable Lee Freeman has seen him land an additional two years on his agreement and a £15,000-a-year salary extension pay increase. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 30/5/2019 News Developing A Fractal Model For Spatial Mapping of Crime Hotspots Determining the precise area of urban crime hotspots, where the crime rate is significantly different from the surrounding area, is one of the essential applications of crime analysis. Besides, the classification of the spatial distribution of crimes can make spatial analysis more applicable to the police. In this regard, the present study examined the spatial distribution of five types of burglary in Zanjan city, NW Iran. Kernel density estimation (KDE) was initially applied to identify the crime distribution in the raster format. Because of producing a continuous-value surficial signature, the KDE model is not able to determine the exact borders of different crime density. To address this issue, the concentration-area (C-A) fractal model is proposed in this study as a frequency–spatial method for class designation of crime density. Thus, based on the interpolated maps derived from KDE, the C-A log–log plots consisting of the values of the gridded density maps of burglary crimes versus their occupied area were generated. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research - Registration at source 30/5/2019 Research article Police Officers’ Implicit Theories of Youth Offending How police understand youth offending at least partly informs their responses to it. It is therefore vital to document police implicit theories about youth offending. However, little previous research has examined this topic. This article addresses this gap by examining police implicit theories about youth crime and how it ought to be addressed. Using social control theory as an analytic framework, it critically examines 41 semi-structured qualitative interviews with police undertaken for a larger study in Queensland, Australia. A number of implications stem from the analysis, not the least of which is the disjuncture between police implicit theories of youth offending, and the localised, historicised and contextual realities of young people’s – especially marginalised young people’s – offending behaviour. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 30/5/2019 Research article Exploring the Implications of ‘low Visibility’ Specialist Cyber-Crime Units Using original data gathered within Australia, this paper argues that specialist cyber-policing units experience a pronounced level of low visibility within the police. This low visibility has three key dimensions. Firstly, there is low ‘vertical’ visibility as higher management and supervisors often have a limited understanding of the nature of the work and the needs of these units. Secondly, there is low ‘horizontal’ visibility as peers and colleagues within the wider organisation are similarly lacking in terms of their understanding of cyber-policing. The third dimension of low visibility concerns the external–internal visibility of the units as they relate to outside stakeholders including politics, media, the wider community and the judiciary. It is argued there is also a significant level of disinterest, disengagement and ignorance along this external–internal dimension. The implications of this ‘low visibility’ is explored and it is argued that there are consequences for the effectiveness of the units while also raising concerns around accountability and the overall prospects for progressive change. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology - Registration at source 30/5/2019 Research article Police and crime commissioners: engagement protocols Guidance on how police and crime commissioners and their partners might engage with each other to improve the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. Home Office 30/5/2019 Report Knife crackdown results a glimpse into future of better-funded service John Apter, national chair of Police Federation of England and Wales, said: “The staggering amount of knives seized in such a short period of time not only highlights the severity of the issue, but shows just what our hard-working members are able to achieve when they are resourced properly. However, it must be pointed out that operations such like this are only possible if officers are diverted from other vital duties which is a deeply concerning situation." Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 30/5/2019 News New law to prevent female genital mutilation Women and girls considered at risk from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will receive enhanced protection under proposals in a new Bill. Scottish Government 30/5/2019 News ‘Overstretched forces mean more offenders getting away with it’ Two-thirds of knifepoint robberies are unsolved as 10,000 bladed weapons taken off the streets in a week. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 30/5/2019 News Children whitening skin to avoid racial hate crime, charity finds Children are whitening their skin to try to avoid a rising tide of racial hate crimes, in which even babies under one year old have been targeted, a charity has said. The Guardian 30/5/2019 News «358535863587358835893590359135923593Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
