Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115843 total results. Showing results 75121 to 75140 «375337543755375637573758375937603761Next ›Last » Cocaine cartel shipping from South America busted in Spain and the Netherlands Europol supported a cross-border investigation, led by the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil), involving the Dutch Police (Politie) and US Homeland Security Investigations and Border and Protection that resulted in dismantling an organised crime group trafficking cocaine from South America to Europe. Europol 16/10/2020 News Terror inquiry after teacher beheaded near Paris EUROPE: A teacher has been beheaded in a north-western suburb of Paris, with the attacker shot dead by police. The victim is said to have shown controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students. The attack occurred at about 17:00 local time (15:00 GMT) near a school. Anti-terror prosecutors are investigating. French President Emmanuel Macron visited the scene, calling the killing an "Islamist terrorist attack". BBC 16/10/2020 News Quebec police watchdog lacks transparency when investigating officers: report CANADA: MONTREAL — Quebec's police watchdog is unacceptably opaque and suffers from shortcomings that undermine its credibility when it comes to investigating complaints by Indigenous people against police, a report by an independent observer has found. Assiniboia Times (Canada) 16/10/2020 News Guns so common in south Auckland body armour is hurting cops’ backs, union says NEW ZEALAND: Counties Manukau cops staring down the barrel of the daily threat of guns are enduring back pain due to the heavy armour they constantly wear on duty, according to the boss of the NZ Police Association. Stuff (New Zealand) 16/10/2020 News London Bridge killer’s Prevent officers had ‘no specific training’ Lawyer for victim’s family suggests at pre-inquest hearing there was a ‘systemic problem’ The Guardian 16/10/2020 News The rise of private policing An MP is calling for more resources from the Met to stop residents of the South London borough of Richmond turning to private security to police their streets. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 16/10/2020 Feature MPS steps up response to new lockdown restrictions in capital The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) says it will be “stepping up its response” to the latest Covid-19 restrictions in London. Police Professional 16/10/2020 News WMP officer charged with string of assaults following ‘excessive force’ inquiry A West Midlands Police officer has been charged with committing three assaults which allegedly took place during separate incidents in Birmingham over a four-day period. Police Professional 16/10/2020 News PFEW Treasurer tells story of brutal assault The Treasurer of the Police Federation of England and Wales has appeared today (Friday 16 October) on the leading BBC One programme Critical Incident to reveal how he became the victim of a serious assault. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 16/10/2020 News West Midlands Police officer charged with three assaults A West Midlands Police officer has today (Friday 16 October) been charged with three assaults which allegedly took place during separate incidents in Birmingham over a four-day period. Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) 16/10/2020 News Extending custody time limit will hit BAME people hardest, MoJ told Move is intended to help tackle courts backlog caused by Covid-19 in England and Wales The Guardian 16/10/2020 News North Yorkshire: Police force to set up ‘Covid cars’ A police force is planning to launch a squad of "Covid cars" to provide a rapid response to public tip-offs about rule breakers. BBC 16/10/2020 News Cuffed Together: A Study on How Law Enforcement Work Impacts the Officer’s Spouse Law enforcement officer spouses and significant others (LEOS) are susceptible to secondary trauma, i.e., psychological and physiological strain from exposure to occupational stress through their interpersonal relationship with their partner. Secondary, or vicarious, trauma in this population is a result of their partner’s occupational stress related to the dangerous nature of the work as well as the unpredictable work environment inherent in law enforcement. Research on secondary trauma for law enforcement personnel is limited, and there is even less for their spouses and significant others. This article begins to fill in the gap in the literature through a mixed-methods study that sought to identify how law enforcement work impacts LEOS, uncovering occupational stressors and various coping mechanisms. A survey of participants (n = 171) found that LEOS report a variety of stressors and in light of these, use negative coping strategies twice as much as positive coping strategies. Focus group data support the survey results, with 70% of respondents acknowledging significant stress related to their partner’s occupation. International Journal of Police Science & Management - Registration at source 16/10/2020 Research article Police Officers, Stigma, and the Opioid Epidemic Researchers have suggested that provider-based stigma of substance use disorders is one barrier to fighting the opioid epidemic. Yet, to date, virtually no study has examined provider-based stigma among law enforcement officers who are on the front line of the opioid crisis. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature by assessing provider-based stigma toward opioid-using persons among a sample of 208 police officers working for departments located in the Northeastern Region of the United States. Results show that officers hold relatively high levels of stigma toward this vulnerable population, as measured by perceptions of dangerousness, blame, and social distance; however, comparatively, officers hold less fatalistic views toward this group of persons. Additionally, our multivariable analyses indicated that officer rank, support for the disease model of addiction, and beliefs about the demographic characteristics of a substance-using person are significantly associated with provider-based stigma among officers. Potential policy implications are discussed within. International Journal of Police Science & Management - Registration at source 16/10/2020 Research article Regression, Progression and Renewal: the Continuous Redevelopment of Expertise in Police Use of Force Coaching Professionalism in law enforcement requires the identification and development of expertise of police use of force (PUOF) coaches. Effective PUOF training includes the transfer from the training into the real-world environment of policing. This difference between working in the field and working as a PUOF coach has not been thoroughly investigated. However, research in other professional domains has shown that practical competence in the subject matter itself does not make a coach effective or successful. With this article, we conceptualize expert practice in PUOF instruction on the basis of a conflict management training setting in the security domain. First, by discussing a model of “territories of expertise”, we point out the dynamic and contextual character of expertise within the PUOF domain. Second, by conceptualizing expertise as a process and effect of communication, we provide a framework that describes and examines the interdependency between performance-based and reputation-based expertise. These considerations present two practical challenges, which we recommend professional law enforcement institutions to engage. We close by providing practical orientations and pointers for addressing these issues. European Journal for Security Research 16/10/2020 Research article Emergent Dimensions of Community-Oriented Policing Community-oriented policing (COP) is arguably the most popular and most misunderstood policing philosophy. Definitional ambiguity contributes to this problem, hampering theoretical development, creative new strategies of implementation, and evidence-based policy. DiMaggio and Powell’s seminal piece on institutional isomorphism provides a framework for understanding the organizational vagueness of COP, including the processes of homogenization of priorities and structures across police organizations. We propose several new dimensions of COP, developed using police mission statements from a nationally representative sample of law enforcement agencies (N = 2,826). These emergent dimensions (Shallow Community-Oriented Policing, Responsivity, Legitimacy, Constitutionality, and Inclusivity) provide new avenues of theoretical consideration of the COP construct. Exploring these novel elements may strengthen existing community-oriented strategies and encourage creative policy suggestions. Crime and Delinquency - Registration at source 16/10/2020 Research article Public Attitudes Toward Auxiliary Police in China: A Preliminary Investigation Despite their colossal size and importance in policing, China’s auxiliary police forces have garnered very little research attention. This study attempts to fill our knowledge gap by first describing key features that distinguish the auxiliary police from the regular police in China and their counterparts in Western societies, followed by an empirical investigation of public attitudes toward the auxiliary police in China. Based on survey data collected from a coastal city in China, we reported the general patterns of people’s evaluations of auxiliary officers and assessed whether variables representing institutional trust, media exposure, and neighborhood context are predictive of Chinese attitudes toward the auxiliary police. We found that Chinese citizens rated their local auxiliary officers very positively. Asian Journal of Criminology - Registration at source 16/10/2020 Research article COVID facemasks as crime facilitators In this latest article from the UCL COVID-19 series, Graham Farrell and Emily Sheard from the University of Leeds discuss how the new legislation on mandatory face masks could inadvertently be aiding criminal behaviour. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 16/10/2020 Analysis, Feature Michael Fuller appointed to scutinise Home Office policing policies Michael Fuller, the first and only ethic minority chief constable, has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Home Office to "challenge and support" policing policies. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 16/10/2020 News Police Minister confirms support for uplift and sentences Federation reps took the opportunity to question Policing Minister Kit Malthouse this week - putting him on the spot on a range of issues from the officer uplift to tougher sentences for those who assault the emergency workers. 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