Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 101031 total results. Showing results 73041 to 73060 «364936503651365236533654365536563657Next ›Last » Police won’t solve the knife crime epidemic – but community work can Knife crime is a growing concern in England and Wales, with the UK government pledging an additional £100m to tackle what West Midlands Police have named a “national emergency”. Figures show that the number of knife crime incidents is rising. In England, there were 5,053 knife assaults recorded in 2017-18, an increase of 14% since 2016-17 and 39% higher than in 2014-15. Just over one in five knife offenders are between the ages of ten and 17. The Conversation 23/7/2019 Analysis, Feature Police are using children to shame speeding drivers by asking them why they are going so fast Children are being used by police to shame speeding drivers who have been pulled over - by asking them why they were travelling so fast. The Telegraph 23/7/2019 News Policing Authority to host public conversation on Community Safety Oversight REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: On Thursday 25 July, the Policing Authority will hold a public conversation on Community Safety oversight, which will be live-streamed on the Authority’s website. Policing Authority (Republic of Ireland) 23/7/2019 News An Appraisal of Investigative Psychology and the Applications to Suspicious Approaches to Children in the Irish Criminal Justice System Policymakers have a duty to base their decision making in the best available evidence relevant to the question at hand. This paper discusses why it is important for policymakers to recognize the valuable contributions to be made from within the fields of investigative and forensic psychology and particularly to inform the process of policymaking and legislative frameworks currently in place regarding suspicious approaches to children offences in the Irish Criminal Justice System. Discrepancies between legal and psychological considerations infer potential issues with policymaking; resulting in evidence‐based concerns regarding how suspicious approaches to children are handled. It is argued that in cases of suspicious approaches to children, important research is available within the fields of investigative and forensic psychology that warrants adequate consideration by policymakers. Additionally, the need for further collaboration between policymakers, researchers and front‐line enforcement agencies to ensure evidence‐based approaches for dealing with suspicious approaches to children and other criminal behaviours within the Irish criminal justice system is highlighted. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling 23/7/2019 Research article An analysis of indicators of serious violence: Findings from the millennium cohort study and the environmental risk (E-risk) longitudinal twin study This report uses two UK-based surveys to examine factors linked to serious violence and how risk factors can be used to identify individuals for intervention. Home Office 23/7/2019 Report Government proposes to tighten firearms licensing to protect the public Home Office launches consultation on statutory guidance for police issuing firearms licences. Home Office 23/7/2019 News NPCC comments on Big Brother Watch report suggesting changes to the new digital evidence consent forms The National Police Chiefs' Council responds to a report released today (Tuesday 23 July) by Big Brother Watch criticising the police use of digital evidence consent forms in obtaining victim and witness evidence in criminal investigations. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 23/7/2019 News Digital strip searches” The police’s data investigations of victims [PDF] The scale and depth of the police’s mobile phone searches are incomparable with the police’s legislative powers to carry out physical searches. It would amount to police searching someone’s property and taking copies of all photographs, documents, letters, films, albums, books and files. These would be intrusive searches even for most suspects of crime. But now, police are carrying out these intrusive digital searches against victims of crime. [PDF] Big Brother Watch 23/7/2019 Report Thousands of police officers assaulted across West Yorkshire as hundreds more suffer injuries There were 1,897 assaults against police officers recorded across the county in 2018/19. That was up 39 per cent from 1,366 in 2017/18. Leeds Live 23/7/2019 News Police downloads of rape victims’ phone data ‘unlawful’, campaigners warn Rape victims are having their privacy violated “unlawfully” by a new policy which gives police a “blank cheque” to download their phone data, a coalition of civil liberties groups warns. Rights Info 23/7/2019 News The Disruptors: The start-up helping UK police to solve crimes Suffolk-based Chorus builds software to help law enforcement connect data used in criminal investigations - 80pc of the UK's police force is now using it. We spoke to Chorus founder and CEO Boyd Mulvey about what it takes to shake up the market. Eastern Daily Press 23/7/2019 News ‘Rape cases dropped’ over police phone search demands Rape and sexual assault complainants say police have stopped investigating their cases after they refused to reveal up to seven years of phone data. BBC 23/7/2019 News Ethnography and Narrative This paper explores the topic of police storytelling from an ethnographic perspective. Ethnographies have always been full of stories, but it took a while for storytelling as such to draw attention to it within the broader study of police culture. Lately, we have seen increased attention for storytelling in policing. Recent studies cover new ground: they comment on story tellability, on police storytelling among recruits, on the differences across settings, and more. Nevertheless, a more systematic treatment of this topic is still lacking. This paper reviews the literature on police storytelling. Its purpose is to come to a more thorough and critical understanding of storytelling in policing (studies), which allows us to identify some challenges and opportunities we see for future (ethnographic) research. Policing and Society 23/7/2019 Research article Police pay rise follows PRRB warning over motivation Police officers are due to receive a 2.5 per cent pay rise as workforce reforms are again criticised by the independent review body. Police Professional 23/7/2019 News The Impact of Individual Differences on Investigative Interviewing Performance: A Test of the Police Interviewing Competencies Inventory and the Five Factor Model We examined whether and how individual differences impact investigative interviewing performance by using the Police Interviewing Competencies Inventory (PICI) and the Five Factor Model (FFM) in a two-step research design. In Study 1, the structure of a modified version of the PICI was assessed using a general population sample (N = 300) and a four-dimensional aptitudes scale was created. In Study 2, student participants (N = 154) completed the aptitudes and the FFM scales, and then interviewed witnesses who watched a mock robbery crime video. Interviewer performance was assessed based on the amount of details they could elicit, the perception of the witness, and researcher ratings of behaviours and question usage. Three dimensions of the FFM were correlated with the success measures: Agreeableness with witness perception and appropriate questioning, Extraversion with researcher ratings and inappropriate questioning, and Openness with researcher ratings. Only the Communicative-Insisting dimension of the aptitudes scale predicted high researcher ratings. Findings might help police departments to identify potential successful interviewers. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 23/7/2019 Research article Officer dismissed for ‘responding inappropriately to discovering suspected rape of schoolgirl’ Gross misconduct decision for safer schools PC who was told a girl under 13 had been having sexual intercourse. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/7/2019 News Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts - plus a short guide outlining how serving police officers and staff can get access, free, to many of the articles listed through the National Police Library. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 23/7/2019 News Labour blasts Theresa May for ‘breaking promise on austerity’ in new police pay award Chancellor hands 'hard-working' PCs extra £978 a year as almost a million public-sector workers get above-inflation rises. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/7/2019 News Let’s get the right changes to tighten firearms licensing in the interests of police, GPs and applicants Minister talks to Police Oracle as Home Office launches consultation in a bid to ensure officers apply consistent checks to applicants' medical records. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/7/2019 Analysis, Feature Evidence-based policing: A survey of police attitudes AUSTRALIA: Evidence-based policing (EBP) advocates the use of scientific processes in police decision-making. [pdf] Australian Institute of Criminology (Australia) 23/7/2019 Research article «364936503651365236533654365536563657Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events