Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 98244 total results. Showing results 72921 to 72940 «364336443645364636473648364936503651Next ›Last » Man dubbed Wales’ worst 999 pest back behind bars Raymond Owen, 84, resumed his nuisance calls just days after being freed from prison North Wales Live 4/4/2019 News Airplane 3D scanning technology used by police for first time to prove mother killed her two-month-old baby Airplane 3D scanning technology has been used by the police for first time to prove a mother killed her two-month-old baby. The Telegraph 4/4/2019 News Police could soon scan suspects with a PHONE to see if they’re carrying weapons Cutting-edge handheld infrared scanner built by scientists could spot concealed knives, guns and bombs up to 20 feet away Mail Online 4/4/2019 News UWOs: Not just for the super rich Mick Creedon says the use of unexplained wealth orders in the UK is to be welcomed. However, their real benefit will emerge when they are used against low-level crooks who seriously damage local communities. Police Professional - Subscription at source 4/4/2019 Feature, Opinion Building for the future Dr Matthew Jones says flexibility, quality and consistency will be essential to ensuring that the new routes of entry into the police service work as intended. Police Professional - Subscription at source 4/4/2019 Feature, Opinion Aggressive intent New research suggests the more violent and prepared a would-be child abductor is, the more vulnerable victims are to being taken. Police Professional - Subscription at source 4/4/2019 Analysis, Feature First collaboration deal among seven forces looks set to deliver major savings A regional procurement deal, the first major announcement from a new seven-force collaboration comprising Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent, is expected to save the individual forces around £1 million a year. Police Professional 4/4/2019 News Assessing Best Practices in Crime Labs Structure, Processes, and Performance Forensic crime labs play an important role in the criminal justice system’s response to violent gun crimes in the USA. The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods of firearms analysis including ballistics imaging and proposed best practices for investigating gun crimes. A separate line of research has begun to explore the structure of forensic labs and how structure impacts lab performance. To date, however, proposed best practices in firearms investigation have not been empirically tested within crime labs. The authors address this gap in the literature by using a mediation model examining organizational correlates of a limited number of tasks (identified by Peter Gagliardi’s 13 Critical Tasks) believed to enhance our final dependent measures, forensic crime lab outcomes (NIBIN acquisitions and hits). The authors examine, therefore, the relationship between organizational correlates, collected from a sample of publicly funded labs in the USA, on several of Gagliardi’s tasks and then explore the relationship of those tasks on our outcome variables: Policing: An International Journal - Registration at source 4/4/2019 Research article Gwent Chief Constable to retire The chief constable of Gwent Police, Julian Williams, has announced his intention to retire from the force at the end of June after less than two years in the post. Police Professional 4/4/2019 News Muslim gardaà to be allowed to wear the hijab An Garda SÃochána has announced it will follow in the footsteps of its Scottish and Northern Ireland counterparts by allowing Muslim gardaà to wear the hijab. Irish Legal News (Republic of Ireland) 4/4/2019 News Kent Police receives £3.5 million Brexit boost The Home Office is to award a further £3.5 million in funding to Kent Police to cover its costs of preparing for the UK leaving the EU. Police Professional 4/4/2019 News PCSOs to remain in Cumbria, says crime commissioner Peter McCall Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has insisted he has no plans to abolish the county’s 95 PCSOs. News & Star 4/4/2019 News ‘We’re already doing this!’ Police puzzled by new government knife initiative which calls on them to ‘report concerns’ The Government's new flagship strategy to deal with knife crime - essentially making it a 'public health duty' for services such as the police, hospitals and councils to report concerns is; 'part of our job anyway', according to Dorset's Police. Dorset Echo 4/4/2019 News Defending the world from terror: Fascinating pictures show anti-terror police in action around the world including US SWAT teams, French RAID agents and Israel’s elite Yamam unit These powerful images show the dedicated counter-terror police around the globe, including the US SWAT teams, French RAID agents and Israel's elite Yamam force. Mail Online 4/4/2019 News ‘No Action Required’: A Historical Pattern of Inaction and Discretion Towards Child Sexual Abuse in Queensland Policing Throughout much of the 20th century, the Queensland Police Force were led by an administration of senior officers more engaged with corrupt practices than with the prosecution of child sexual abuse. An unwillingness within the police force to take action against suspected child sex offenders on many occasions could be perceived to obstruct investigations and provide a layer of protection to this kind of criminal behaviour. Examination of archival material suggests that Queensland police were motivated by an anomic condition within the force that led to deviance from established social norms governing attitudes towards child sexual abuse cases. Police Journal - Registration at source 4/4/2019 Research article ‘These People Are Vulnerable, They Aren’t Criminals’: Mental Health, the Use of Force and Deaths After Police Contact in England This study identifies subtypes of citizen behavioural characteristics within police use of force events and assesses ecological influences on these subtypes. Data comprised police use of force reports, recorded crime data, and census data. Latent class analysis was applied to 19,900 police use of force events to identify latent classes of citizen behavioural characteristics. A five class-solution demonstrated best fit and comprised the following classes: violent, unstable, and drug or alcohol affected; apparent mental disorder and possessing a weapon; alcohol-related violence; suspicious and fleeing; and violent behaviour and threatening a weapon. Chi-square analysis and multilevel logistic regression showed each citizen presentation class was associated with distinct patterns of offence types and contexts for police use of force. Ecological influences were notable for three classes of citizen presentations. The clustering of citizen behaviours within incidents provides insights into the nature and distribution of types of police–citizen encounters where force is used. Police Journal 4/4/2019 Research article The Police Education Qualification Framework: A Professional Agenda Or Building Professionals? Given the growing complexity in British policing, the College of Policing are implementing a Police Education Qualification Framework through a professionalization agenda. This aims to standardise entry to the police and allow serving officers to gain accreditation for their previous training and experience. Part of this process involves the development of a national police curriculum for higher education institutions to deliver to new recruits. Different definitions of what constitutes professionalism can impact on officers’ interpretations of this concept and how they subsequently engage with the proposed reforms. This paper, which is based on in depth qualitative interviews with serving officers who have undertaken an academic qualification in policing, suggests that the relationship between police education and the development of professionalism is complex. Officers need to be trusted and encouraged to use their learning in a way that develops their own personal sense of professionalism. However, this paper will argue that current perceptions amongst officers are sceptical of the wider agenda and brings into question the development of a standardised curriculum which may ultimately be viewed as further governance over officer behaviour. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 4/4/2019 Research article Changing the Narrative: Police–community Partnerships and Racial Reconciliation Police–community relations are strained in the United States, especially along racial lines. This paper assesses community perceptions of crime and the police before and after the implementation of an intervention aimed at eliminating overt drug markets through focused deterrence and police–community partnerships emphasizing racial reconciliation. Mail surveys were sent to every household living within a two-mile radius of the block group where the intervention took place and we estimate differences-in-differences OLS models to examine whether the intervention changed perceptions of crime and police trust and legitimacy. Relative to non-black respondents, black respondents perceived a reduction in non-violent crimes and disorder as well as less racial profiling after the intervention; these results are robust to a number of robustness checks. We did not observe a change with respect to perceptions of police effectiveness, fairness, or other measures of police legitimacy. Justice Quarterly - Registration at source 4/4/2019 Research article HMICFRS: Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority inspection HMICFRS: This inspection looks into the use of investigative powers by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA). HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 4/4/2019 Report The teenage hackers who’ve been given a second chance Step inside the offices of Bluescreen and you'll find some of the UK's most talented teenage hackers, dragged from a world of crime to fight for the other side. 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