Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115085 total results. Showing results 7421 to 7440 «368369370371372373374375376Next ›Last » Police ‘forced to disclose ethnicity of suspects to counter far-right speculation’ Police are being forced to disclose the ethnicity of suspects in response to a rise in far-right speculation on social media, a former senior officer in the Metropolitan police force has warned. The Guardian 2/11/2025 News ‘There was no pressure’: Police rule out reviewing breath-test targets after 30,000 tests falsified NEW ZEALAND: Police say there was "no pressure" on staff to meet alcohol breath test targets and have ruled out reviewing how they are applied, after it was revealed more than 100 officers are under investigation for falsifying 30,000 tests. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 2/11/2025 News Concerning data reveals impact of crime crisis in Victoria AUSTRALIA: Thousands of Victorians are leaving the state as crime continues in Melbourne, with many setting up shop in one Aussie state. The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed a decrease of Victoria's population by 2000 people oberall, whilst over 24,000 people moved to Queensland, 9 News (Australia) 2/11/2025 News Investigation update following major incident at Huntingdon – Cambridgeshire Detectives investigating a multiple stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire can this evening confirm a 32-year-old man who was arrested is now being treated as the only suspect. A 35-year-old man from London who was also arrested at the scene has been released with no further action. It was reported in good faith to officers responding to the incident that he was involved in the attack, and following enquiries we can confirm that he was not involved. British Transport Police 2/11/2025 News Rewards, sanctions, and trust in the police: evidence from field and survey experiments in Colombia What the police do, and how civilians interpret their actions, shapes institutional trust and the legitimacy of law enforcement. Yet in many democracies, both officer behaviuor and public expectations remain fragile. This paper studies how expectations about police enforcement align – or misalign – with actual patterns of behaviuor among future Colombian officers. Using a behavioural game and an incentivized prediction survey, we analyze how police trainees choose between sanctions and rewards under discretionary conditions and how civilians anticipate these choices. Our findings show that while resource distributions were generally equitable, police students were more likely to reward in-group members and sanction out-group members. Citizens, however, systematically overestimated the officers' willingness to enforce fairness, particularly through sanctions. Moreover, incentivizing prediction accuracy improved belief calibration. By combining experimental games and incentivized belief surveys, our study contributes to the literatures on discretionary policing and public trust by illustrating how identity and incentives shape both police behaviuor and citizen expectations. Policing and Society - Subscription at source 2/11/2025 Research article The art of inquiring: examining the quality of adult eyewitness interviews in the Netherlands Eyewitness interviews are critical to police investigations. The Generic Witness Interview, used by Dutch police, aligns with best practices to enhance accurate recall. However, research on its implementation is scarce, and existing studies indicate that Dutch police frequently use inappropriate questions, deviating from guidelines. We assessed the quality of 103 real-life Dutch eyewitness interviews to evaluate questioning strategies and adherence to the Generic Witness Interview. We also examined whether investigators probed witnesses about factors that can impair eyewitness accuracy. Most of the questions used were appropriate (69%), with probing questions being most prevalent. Inappropriate questions (31%) mostly consisted of closed questions, while suggestive and forced-choice questions were rare. Yet, interviewers frequently missed opportunities to inquire about factors that can impair eyewitness accuracy (84%). These findings suggest that while Dutch police generally adhere to best practices, further training is recommended. Policy implications for police training and interview standardization are discussed. Police Practice and Research 2/11/2025 Research article Rethinking rules for 911: Dispatching alternative responders in Denver and San Francisco Research Summary: Alternatives to police response to 911 calls have emerged as a leading public safety reform strategy. A key policy implementation challenge lies in determining whether alternative responders, police, or both are most appropriate for a given situation—a decision that largely falls to 911 call takers and dispatchers. This article examines how dispatch organizations have tried to structure these decisions through protocols and decision trees. Drawing on 39 interviews and 20 h of observations with 911 workers in San Francisco and Denver, we argue that these tools, as currently structured, are poorly suited to handle the uncertainty, subjectivity, and ambiguity that characterize many street crisis calls. In the absence of more thoughtfully designed guidance from leadership, we find that dispatch staff routinely work around the rules to attain the response they believe is most appropriate. Policy Implications: Addressing the dispatch protocol issue is critical for the success of the alternative response movement. Absent workable protocols, dispatchers sometimes default to sending the police, undermining the progress alternative response promises. Applying our learnings from Denver and San Francisco, this study points to a two-pronged approach that dispatch agencies can use to improve call diversion guidance. First, they can refine existing protocols and decision trees by grounding them in the experiential knowledge of frontline staff. Second, they can supplement these tools with more flexible forms of guidance—such as organizational value statements or collaborative decision-making frameworks—to aid decision making when protocols reach their limits. Together, these changes can produce guidance that is more responsive to the realities of dispatch work and better aligned with the goals of alternative response. Criminology and Public Policy 2/11/2025 Research article Australian-first domestic violence digital notification service for victim-survivors to launch in NSW AUSTRALIA: Survivors of domestic and family violence will be able to receive an alert when an alleged perpetrator is released from custody, as part of a new digital pilot program to launch in New South Wales. ABC News (Australia) 2/11/2025 News Qld police say workers compensation scheme adds to psychological distress AUSTRALIA: When Queensland police officer Natalie Gorman medically retired from the job she loved, she was unprepared for the detrimental impact a workers compensation claim would have on her psychological injury. ABC News (Australia) 2/11/2025 News Staffordshire’s police and crime commissioner defends controversial proposals to change PCSO shift patterns Ben Adams says Staffordshire Police’s plan to reduce PCSO evening patrols and increase day shifts, with the last shifts ending at 9pm instead of 10pm, will allow the support officers to be ‘in the right places at the right times’. Express & Star 2/11/2025 News What we know about stabbings on Doncaster to London train Passengers travelling from Doncaster to London were attacked in a mass stabbing on a train on Saturday night. BBC 2/11/2025 News Millions spent on police helicopter ‘unjustifiable’ A commissioner says the cost of maintaining a £6m helicopter service cannot be justified. BBC 2/11/2025 News Nine with life-threatening injuries – as counter-terrorism police join train stabbing investigation Armed police arrested two men after being called to the incident at around 7.40pm on Saturday at Huntingdon station in Cambridgeshire. Sky News 2/11/2025 News MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime Forty Labour and independent MPs call on Steve Reed to take ‘important step’ of defining anti-Muslim hatred The Guardian 2/11/2025 News Met Police PC admits sending Telegram messages about child sex abuse A Metropolitan Police officer is facing a possible jail sentence after he admitted sending “graphic” messages about the sexual abuse of children. PC Duncan Bouette was suspended by the force after he was arrested in early October over the secret chats on encrypted messaging service Telegram. The Standard 1/11/2025 News So why has Scotland’s Chief Constable twice tried to ‘recruit’ former cop guilty of sexting shame? Scotland's Chief Constable twice tried to ‘recruit’ a disgraced senior officer who was stripped of his Queen’s Police Medal after being found guilty of misconduct charges, including sexting from his force phone. Mail Online 1/11/2025 News Racist police officer may have framed 100 innocent people A police officer known to have framed at least 13 Londoners may have set up more than 100 innocent victims. DS Derek Ridgewell targeted mostly black people in the 1970s, who he falsely accused of robbery and beat up if they tried to resist arrest, before fabricating a semi-confession and lying on oath so they would be convicted. Metro 1/11/2025 News Everyone says they are worried about hate crimes. But Australia’s laws to combat them are all over the place AUSTRALIA: Hate crimes have long been debated in Australia, but the war in Gaza and the rise in reports of antisemitism and Islamophobia have thrust the laws designed to punish these crimes into the political spotlight. The Guardian 1/11/2025 Feature I was left suicidal by working for the Met Police. My male colleague called a rape victim a ‘slut’, made racist comments and followed me home – when I complained HE was given support A Met Police whistleblower says she was left feeling suicidal after being forced to work alongside a male colleague she had reported for misconduct. Issy Vine, 30, from Wimbledon, south west London, got a job as a call handler at the start of the pandemic in 2020 because she felt an urge to help those in crisis and thought it would be a good start to her policing career. Mail Online 1/11/2025 News Force to expand knife crime and youth violence unit West Midlands Police is to expand a specialist knife crime and youth violence unit by creating a new team in the Black Country. Four teams currently operate as part of Project Guardian Taskforce, funded by the Home Office, but the force said it was paying for a fifth to be set up from this month. BBC 1/11/2025 News «368369370371372373374375376Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
