Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115877 total results. Showing results 73081 to 73100 «365136523653365436553656365736583659Next ›Last » Homicide rate in South Yorkshire at its highest in ‘more than a decade’, research reveals The number of homicides recorded by South Yorkshire Police this year is the highest it has been in more than 10 years, research has revealed. The Yorkshire Post 28/12/2020 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 UK's National Police Library. You do not need to be a member of the UK College of Policing to access its library. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 28/12/2020 News Examining the Spatial Concentration of Mental Health Calls For Police Service in A Small City In recent years, police services have begun deploying more robust responses to calls for service involving persons with perceived mental illness (PwPMI), but at times do so in a limited capacity because of various challenges. Drawing from established evidence-based policing practices, a more efficient use of these responses may be to proactively deploy them instead, focusing their efforts on hot spots of PwPMI calls. Unfortunately, little is known about PwPMI call concentrations. Therefore, this study seeks to contribute to the literature by not only examining the concentration of these calls within a small city, but also by introducing new methods and a new measure of concentration to the literature. Drawing on 6 years of calls for service data, the results reveal that a high proportion of PwPMI calls are concentrated in few spatial units—more so than in larger jurisdictions. Further analyses also reveal dispersion of these concentrations. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 28/12/2020 Research article Expanding the Range of Metrics Used in Response Officer Dispatch Decisions Although officer proximity to a grade 2 (non-emergency) incident is the primary metric used by dispatchers to allocate officers from deployment, other (informal) factors may influence the decision. The purpose of this research was to identify additional metrics that could be used to better match officer attributes to incident characteristics. Using a form of grounded theory, interviews with dispatchers in a single constabulary were used to identify 14 additional metrics that could be used in a formal decision-making process implemented through software assistance. The metrics broadly fell into the three categories of response time, officer attributes, and incident attributes. Dispatchers generally considered the introduction of a greater range of metrics implemented as software assistance to be beneficial but considered software decision-making tools to be unacceptable. We conclude that the weighting attached to each new metric relative to others should be tailored to the constabulary and operation group with which the dispatcher works. Overall, it is considered desirable to introduce a wider range of metrics through which dispatch of officers to non-emergency incidents may be managed. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 28/12/2020 Research article Roles of Chinese Police Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic This article provides an overview of frontier issues of policing in China by examining the roles of police during the pandemic. It starts with a short introduction to the challenges and overall performance of China in keeping social order in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Then, it outlines four major missions the Chinese police have pursued, each with a sketch of what has been done and how law enforcement officials have managed to achieve their goals. It follows with a further insight into their strategies in social control in connection with the latest reforms on policing. Finally, it concludes briefly with features of Chinese policing. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 28/12/2020 Research article A Qualitative Study: Emotional Damage to Police Victims in China This article aims to analyze the emotional injury and behavioral consequences that police officers in China experience after they have been violently attacked (e.g., when police are victims of violent crimes). The analysis was based on self-narration from police officers who were victimized (from here “police victims”). First, the study explored the emotional trauma caused by violent and nonviolent attacks on police victims. Second, this study explored the impact of this violence on the police community. Finally, the study assessed the impact of violent attacks on police enforcement capabilities. Research shows that police in China have become victims of violent attacks that may have caused emotional damage. However, the extent and consequences of this emotional damage are not clear and deserve further discussion. Therefore, this research attempts to contribute to an in-depth discussion of this topic. The research used a focus group format to interview police victims (n = 40). The interviews included questions about emotional damage, occupational hazards, ensuing self-doubt, long-term behaviors, returning to work, and self-protection. Journal of Interpersonal Violence - Registration at source 28/12/2020 Research article Third-Party Crime Reporting: Examining the Effects of Perceived Social Cohesion and Confidence in Police Effectiveness While some research suggests perceptions of social cohesion and confidence in police effectiveness influence reporting decisions among victims of crime, no study has examined whether these influences predict reporting among third parties. This paper investigates reporting behaviors of third parties using survey data from Kentucky. Results indicate higher perceptions of neighborhood social cohesion are associated with a decreased likelihood of third-party crime reporting, but that confidence in police effectiveness is a non-significant predictor. These relationships stand partially in contrast to findings from the victim reporting literature, which has shown a positive relationship between perceptions of social cohesion and reporting. These results also challenge the argument that confidence in police effectiveness plays a central role in peoples’ crime reporting decisions. Journal of Crime and Justice - Registration at source 28/12/2020 Research article Police will be banned from ‘digital strip searches’ of rape victims under new law stopping detectives from trawling through their phones for intimate details of their sex lives A ban on police conducting a 'digital strip search' on rape victims' phones will be introduced under a new law that aims to curb intrusive searches into victims' sex lives. Mail Online 28/12/2020 News Rules meant police officer was paid even after he admitted killing secret lover Timothy Brehmer was jailed for manslaughter. Express & Star 28/12/2020 News Illuminating the Concept of Community (group)-Level Procedural Justice: A Qualitative Analysis of Protestors’ Group-Level Experiences With the Police “Procedural justice” (PJ) has traditionally been thought of as an intragroup model, characterizing interpersonal interactions between police officers and specific individuals. O’Brien et al. recently proposed that PJ is also a useful framework for examining intergroup dynamics, and can thus be used to typify interactions between the police and communities/social groups as a whole. Yet, as a novel construct, its precise content remains unclear. We use qualitative, in-depth interviews with individuals who encountered police as a group of protestors, to illuminate the constituent elements of group-level PJ. We identify four concerns with group-level treatment: respect for the existence and cause of the group, partnership with the group, recognizing the individual within the group, and displaying the “right” motivation: allowing group activities to take place safely. We discuss the implications of our findings, arguing that they pave the way for more exhaustive modeling of the fairness embedded in authorities’ treatment. Criminal Justice and Behaviour - Registration at source 28/12/2020 Research article South Yorkshire homicides highest since 2007 The number of homicide investigations launched in South Yorkshire has reached its highest level for more than a decade, BBC research has found. BBC 28/12/2020 News Known unknowns? The crazy world of pre-charge bail policy There are calls for a return to ‘pre-charge bail’ in the UK, which was radically changed and widely replaced by ‘released under investigation’ conditions in 2017; but Penelope Gibbs, Director of Transform Justice, fears the move is being driven by assumptions rather than research or real evidence about what is most effective. Policing Insight 28/12/2020 Feature, Opinion Drunk driver arrested after going to collect child who had been arrested for drug driving Gloucestershire Police praised on social media for their use of amusing hashtags and emojis as well as discerning remarks The Telegraph - Subscription at source 28/12/2020 News Police should be ‘priority’ for coronavirus vaccine Vaccinating police officers should be a priority, the county’s police chief said. Swindon Advertiser 28/12/2020 News The great opportunity: How Covid transformed global crime 2020 led to surges in everything from domestic abuse to black markets in fake vaccines The Guardian 27/12/2020 Analysis, Feature ‘Significant’ number of officers assaulted on Christmas Day, says Sussex Police Sussex Police has revealed that a “significant” number of its officers were assaulted on Christmas Day. Police Professional 27/12/2020 News Police officers could become Covid-19 ‘superspreaders’ without vaccine, it is warned Police officers could become Covid-19 "super-spreaders" if they are not vaccinated against the virus, a federation leader has warned. East Anglian Daily Times 27/12/2020 News UK ‘super recogniser’ officer spots more than 2,000 suspects A British police officer with a talent for recognising faces has now identified more than 2,100 suspects, even some who were wearing masks. euronews 27/12/2020 News Regina police chief reflects on 2020 CANADA: COVID-19 pandemic, Co-op-Unifor labour dispute, drug overdose epidemic and defunding police highlight year CBC News (Canada) 27/12/2020 News Mental health issues a factor in almost 60,000 police calls, minister told NEW ZEALAND: In the last financial year police responded to nearly 60,000 calls involving a person having a mental health crisis, in distress, or threatening suicide. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 27/12/2020 News «365136523653365436553656365736583659Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
