Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103123 total results. Showing results 72141 to 72160 «360436053606360736083609361036113612Next ›Last » Judge praises officers who were doused in petrol during disorder Temporary superintendent tells court 'we could have gone up like Roman Candles' Police Oracle - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 News Man suspected of kidnapping Northern Ireland businessman Kevin Lunney dies during raid Kevin Lunney was abducted outside his home in September and severely beaten, with a warning letter sent last month. Sky News 8/11/2019 News Smart decisions? A number of recent deaths have highlighted concerns about the safety of smart motorways and prompted a government review of their roll-out, but hundreds of miles remain in use, presenting challenges for police and public alike. Police Professional reports. Police Professional - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 Analysis, Feature Facing up to scrutiny Adrian Timberlake examines the use of facial recognition to support police operations, its possible bias and how it can be used ethically. Police Professional - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 Analysis, Feature Head hunters Skulls and body parts of many endangered species are widely available from online auction sites such as eBay. While some are innocent purchasers, many involved in the trade are flouting the law believing they are unlikely to be caught. Police Professional - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 Analysis, Feature Nostalgia: Not what it used to be Ian MacDonald looks at the search for a form of policing that communities want, but discusses whether this is the same as what they need. Police Professional - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 Feature, Opinion Aligning governance Peter Vaughan explains why an independent inquiry has recommended fundamental changes to police governance arrangements in Wales. Police Professional - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 Analysis, Feature Disrupting the threat from drones Responding to the “unprecedented disruption” by drones at Gatwick last Christmas cost Sussex Police more than £790,000, with the airport closed for 30 hours and some 1,000 flights affected. Police Professional - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 Focused on security The use of body-worn video cameras is revolutionising policing and Richie McBride says they have been proven to enhance security of the ‘connected’ officer Police Professional - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 Analysis, Feature Revealed: The shocking number of Birmingham children in gangs or at risk of joining one Experts warn of devastating impact on children who are groomed and exploited to traffic drugs in county lines operations and the threats, violence and sexual abuse they are subjected to Birmingham Live 8/11/2019 News Councillor reported to town hall bosses for taking the mickey out of iOPS John Farrell says "I'm not up for being bullied" after receiving a letter confirming the complaint from Ian Hopkins Manchester Evening News 8/11/2019 News WA Police begin testing iPhones ahead of rollout AUSTRALIA: WA Police has begun rolling out iPhones to all frontline officers under an $8 million deal with Telstra, with more than 3000 to be deployed over the next seven weeks. IT News (Australia) 8/11/2019 News NSW Police Commissioner hits back at coroner’s findings AUSTRALIA: NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller has hit back immediately against a coroner's findings into music festivals, saying any suggestion his officers contributed to the drug-related deaths of six young revellers "will be strongly defended by me." The state's most senior police officer issued a statement backing law enforcement tactics at music festivals soon after a coroner released a set of findings over the spate of recent deaths that said policing methods at events potentially harmed punters rather than protected them. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 8/11/2019 News Beyond Crime Rates and Community Surveys: A New Approach to Police Accountability and Performance Measurement In this conceptual piece, we argue that the current approach to police performance measurement typically based on the use of traditional police metrics has failed to achieve the desired results and that a different strategy is required. Traditional police metrics have a narrow focus on crime and the police response to it. They provide little information on how well police organizations are performing. Importantly, traditional police metrics do not incorporate input from police stakeholders in goal identification, nor do they use specifically designed indicators to assess progress towards achieving these goals. Following an analysis of the criticisms levelled at the use of traditional police metrics, and subsequent attempts to address these issues, we argue that a networked governance approach represents a more promising foundation for undertaking police organizational performance assessment. Such an approach would engage stakeholders more directly in goal identification and performance assessment, and potentially lead to more successful, responsive and accountable policing. Crime Science Journal 8/11/2019 Research article Targeting the Most Harmful Offenders For An English Police Agency: Continuity and Change of Membership in the “Felonious Few” How concentrated is the total harm of offences with detected offenders (identified suspects) among the complete list of all detected offenders in a given year in an English police agency, and how consistent is the list of highest-harm “felonious few” offenders from one year to the next? Characteristics of 327,566 crimes and 39,545 unique offenders as recorded by Northamptonshire Police in 7 years from 2010 to 2016 provide the basis for this analysis. Crime and offender records were matched to harm weightings derived from the Cambridge Crime Harm Index (Sherman et al. 2016a; Sherman et al., Policing, 10(3), 171–183, 2016b). Descriptive statistics summarize a concentration of harm identifying the felonious few, changes over time in membership of the “few”, offender typologies and tests for escalation of severity, frequency and intermittency across repeated offences. Crime harm is much more concentrated among offenders than crime volume: 80% of crime harm that is identified to an offender is linked to a felonious few of just 7% of all detected offenders. While chronic repeat offenders are the majority contributors to harm totals of this group, those with the most general range of offence types contribute the most harm. Individual members of the felonious few rarely maintain that position year on year; over 95% of each year’s list is composed of individuals not present in previous years. Within individual crime histories, we observe a pattern of de-escalation in crime harm per offence over time. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 8/11/2019 Research article Ultra-fast bomb detection unveiled Researchers from the University of Surrey have developed a new ‘ultra-fast’ method to detect materials that could be used by terrorists to build explosives. Police Professional 8/11/2019 News Meeting cross-border challenges The reliability and security of Airbus’s critical networks infrastructure was successfully demonstrated during a multi-agency exercise in Sweden. Police Professional 8/11/2019 News Budget settlements delayed until January at earliest Police budgets will not be finalised until the New Year – and delay could be longer if there is a hung parliament. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 News Durham’s missing persons scheme recommended for all forces Force reports 36% reduction in missing person cases since scheme's introduction in January. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 8/11/2019 News Intelligent mission-critical ‘smart’ radio unveiled Motorola Solutions has unveiled its next-generation mission-critical ‘smart’ radio for LTE (long-term evolution) offering enhanced communications and data-centric application services. Police Professional 8/11/2019 News «360436053606360736083609361036113612Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events