Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115877 total results. Showing results 72581 to 72600 «362636273628362936303631363236333634Next ›Last » Preventing Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – An Agenda for Action across the Financial Services Sector The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Dame Sara Thornton, has today published a joint report which has found worryingly low levels of awareness of forced labour and exploitation of workers in the UK’s financial sector. The study, led by Dame Sara Thornton, the UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, suggests nearly half of bankers and other finance staff don’t know about the nature and scale of the problem - nor how their business is involved in the abuse. The report, carried out in partnership with Themis and the TRIBE Freedom Foundation, shows how finance is at the heart of labour exploitation - a multi-million-pound industry - and calls on leaders to take a stand against it. Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner 18/1/2021 Report Labour slam Government over police files deletion A Labour MP has accused the Cabinet of a "corrosive" culture of not taking responsibility following the accidental deletion of hundreds of thousands of police records. Belfast Telegraph 18/1/2021 News More Cops, Less Trust? Disentangling the Relationship Between Police Numbers and Trust in the Police in the European Union This paper investigates the relationship between number of police officers per inhabitant and trust in the police in the EU. By compiling data sources from the Eurobarometer, the Eurostat and the Corruption Perception Index, we test whether the number of police officers per inhabitant is a robust predictor of trust in the police on the country level. While there is a strong negative correlation between the two variables that justifies stating that the police are trusted most in countries where the number of police is minimal, controlling for relevant covariates reveals that the correlation is technically spurious. In line with distributive justice theory, perceptions of corruption in the respective countries explain most of the variation in trust in the police, which completely levels the influence of number of police officers per inhabitant. Implications for research and policy are discussed at the end of the paper. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Fewer than one in 10 police officers fired after gross misconduct finding Figures from England and Wales raise questions about IOPC’s efficiency as police forces’ watchdog The Guardian 18/1/2021 News Using Collaborative, Mixed-Methods Research to Determine Professional Self-Care’s Relation to Burnout Among Police Officers At A Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Site Burnout, an occupational syndrome characterized by feelings of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished personal accomplishment, is highly prevalent among police officers, perhaps as a result of regular and repeated exposure to job-related stressful events. Burnout might be especially problematic for officers working with sexual assault victims, as this sensitive work requires officers to be exposed to trauma while conducting trauma-informed, victim-centered investigations. The current study used interagency, multidisciplinary collaboration and a mixed-method design to examine professional self-care as a mechanism to combat burnout among police officers (n = 331) at a Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) site in the southeastern region of the United States. Professional self-care better predicted each component of burnout than did exposure to job-related trauma, being injured on-duty, number of critical incident types experienced, and years on the force. Specifically, engagement in professional development activities best predicted reduced emotional exhaustion and depersonalization of victims. Officers’ qualitative responses supported quantitative survey data, with 48% requesting an increase in professional self-care opportunities (e.g., more trainings, professional support) offered by their organization. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Perception of Acceptability and Usability of A Modified Cognitive Interview in the Evaluation of Police Training in France Since the 1980s, a large body of research has proven the superiority of enhanced or modified cognitive interviews over the standard interviews used by police officers around the world. Although the cognitive interview is well grounded in theory and has proven practical value, this tool is not always used by police officers. The objective of the present study was to measure the various dimensions of Nielsen’s 1993 acceptability model and thus understand what prevents police officers in France from using a modified cognitive interview. We recruited 23 police officers who had an average of ~ 20 years of police force experience, and trained them for at least two days in how to perform a modified cognitive interview. We measured the modified cognitive interview’s social acceptability, compatibility, and usability at different time points during the training. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Examining Guardian and Warrior Orientations Across Racial and Ethnic Lines With research tending to suggest that officers are psychologically oriented to one ideological side of the policing spectrum, the buy-in to a hybrid orientation involving both guardian and warrior orientations among patrol officers remains understudied and undertheorized. The purpose of this pilot study is to test whether the guardian and warrior orientation can coexist by examining whether the warrior orientation is predictive of the guardian orientation among patrol officers. Moreover, tests are conducted to assess whether the coexistence of warrior and guardian orientations varies across White and non-White patrol officers. OLS regressions were conducted utilizing an online sample of patrol officers (n = 882) pooled from nationally recognized website, PoliceOne.com. Results showed that warrior and guardian orientations are not mutually exclusive. Specifically, officers who are more supportive of aggressively enforcing the law are more supportive of the guardian orientation. However, we find evidence that Hispanic and Latino/a patrol officers are more supportive of this hybrid style of policing than White officers. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 18/1/2021 Research article Head of police union sues over misconduct charge Police Scotland is being taken to court by the head of the union that represents most of its officers. The Times - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News Home Office warned of ‘creaking’ police database The Home Office was warned 18 months ago that a lack of investment in “creaking” police databases put the public at “significant risk”, The Times has learnt. The Times - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News Cars to be confiscated if breath test refused Motorists face having their car confiscated if they fail to provide a breath sample to police, under new guidance. The Times - Subscription at source 18/1/2021 News Home Office working to restore Police National Computer data Home Office engineers work to restore data lost from the Police National Computer Home Office 17/1/2021 News Police highlight realities of modern-day slavery Police have offered an insight into the investigation of modern slavery as a new serious and organised crime campaign is launched. Sky News 17/1/2021 News France launches public consultation on legalising cannabis FRANCE: France is Europe’s biggest cannabis consumer, despite having some of the continent’s toughest laws against the drug. In response to this failure of the law to act as a deterrent, a group of MPs from across the political spectrum have launched an initiative to shift the terms of the debate on this issue. France 24 17/1/2021 News Police to drop most COVID-19 fines and hand out cautions AUSTRALIA: Police officers who issued fines for breaches of COVID-19 restrictions have been instructed to hand out cautions for unpaid infringements rather than proceed with charges in a move that the Police Association warns could undermine future enforcement of public health orders. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) 17/1/2021 News Police chief warns ‘irresponsible’ celebrities not to encourage Covid rulebreakers Celebrities have an "even greater responsibility" to abide by Covid-19 rules, a top police chief has told LBC, as the UK faces the toughest months of the pandemic so far. LBC 17/1/2021 News Mandatory reporting of choking necessary in fight against domestic violence, police say CANADA: N.L. emergency rooms are required by law to report gunshot and stab wounds, but not strangulation CBC News (Canada) 17/1/2021 News Priti Patel should take responsibility for deleted police records say Labour Priti Patel should take responsibility for an error that has led to hundreds of thousands of police records being deleted from UK-wide databases, the shadow home secretary has said. The Standard 17/1/2021 News Women in Policing and Legitimacy: A Vignette-Based Study of Symbolic Representation Using a two-by-two vignette-based experimental design, this study aimed to examine the effects of women’s symbolic representation in sexual assault units and the arrest rate for interpersonal violence cases on individuals’ perceptions of police legitimacy, support for leadership, and willingness to engage in bystander intervention behaviors. Using responses from 357 students attending one university in the Midwest, the results showed that a higher level of women’s representation was associated with more police legitimacy and greater support for the leader when the agency had a low arrest rate. Whereas police legitimacy was related to bystanders’ intentions to intervene, women’s representation in the unit and the arrest rate was not. The findings indicate that women’s representation in policing strengthens the support for the police in gendered areas when the agency is underperforming. Women and Criminal Justice - Registration at source 17/1/2021 Research article ‘it’s Like I’m Having An Affair’: Cross-Force Police Collaborations As Complex Problems Financial austerity has brought considerable pressure upon policing services in England and Wales in the past decade. For the British government, one mitigatory vehicle to alleviate this pressure is the expansion of police collaborative units operating across two or more police forces. To date however, such cross-force collaborations have been beset by a series of problems and progress has been inexorably slow. Drawing upon the reflections of police officers and staff involved at varying stages of cross-force collaborations, this paper explores why collaborations have so far largely failed. The paper argues that while the challenges of cross-force collaborations echo those of previous police efforts to work with external partners, these difficulties are intensified during cross-force collaborations in which partners present divergent policing agendas. As such, cross-force collaborations may be usefully understood as ‘complex problems,’ marking them out as particularly challenging and demanding new and distinct approaches to problem-solving. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 17/1/2021 Research article Study suggests respirator masks used by police could hurt perception CANADA: The study shows people may react negatively to police wearing full-face respirator masks possibly due to their use in public disorder situations where tear gas is deployed North Shore News (Canada) 17/1/2021 News «362636273628362936303631363236333634Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
