Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 101289 total results. Showing results 75621 to 75640 «377837793780378137823783378437853786Next ›Last » Encouraging Public Reporting of Suspicious Behaviour on Rail Networks Ongoing targeting of mass transit networks and the challenges associated with policing these large open systems means that encouraging public vigilance and reporting on railways is a counter-terrorism priority. There is, however, surprisingly little research on motivations and barriers to cooperating with the police in this context. This paper contributes to this under-researched field by presenting the findings of a survey experiment which examined (1) the role of uncertainty as a barrier for reporting suspicious behaviour on rail networks, (2) whether drivers for cooperation established in the context of traditional crime hold for reporting suspicious behaviour at train stations, and (3) whether the UK ‘See it. Say it. Sorted’ campaign is effective in encouraging reporting. Data was collected in the UK and Denmark, national contexts with differing baseline attitudes towards the police and experiences of transit terrorist attacks, to assess the extent to which public vigilance campaigns need to be adapted to address local concerns. Results suggest that future public vigilance campaigns should address differences in lay and official definitions of suspicious behaviour to reduce uncertainty as a barrier to reporting. They also demonstrate that the influence of procedural justice on cooperation via its influence on social identification with the police holds beyond the context of community policing and reporting of traditional crime. However, other drivers are likely to be more important for determining reporting suspicious behaviour on rail networks, including perceived benefits of reporting. Theoretical and practical implications of cross-national differences and similarities in responses are discussed. Policing and Society - Registration at source 19/4/2019 Research article Customer Is King: Promoting Port Policing, Supporting Hypercommercialism This ethnography of everyday policing realities in the European ports of Rotterdam and Hamburg presents an understanding of policing spaces where protecting and supporting global commerce dominate (Eski 2016a). In undertaking this research, I participated in the daily activities of 85 participants in Rotterdam (N = 52) and Hamburg (N = 33), consisting of 30 operational port police officers, 31 security officers, 10 customs officers and 14 others involved in port security-related matters (e.g. shipping agents, port authorities, boatmen and maritime engineers). These participants were collectively responsible for protecting the vulnerability of the just-in-time logistics by becoming the intervention, through which they become the very local threat to global commerce itself. In their policing struggles with management, colleagues and multiagency partners, as well as with the maritime business community and dangerous others (Hudson 2009), they are fighting a (silent) fight against having to appear to police for commercialism. However, they merely promote port policing without feeling they actually support the flow of global commerce. Frontline staff that deals with profile-raising port policing and what kind of (resistant) attitudes results from it, may deliver a new (method of studying ethnographically) hope against neoliberal policing, from within. Policing and Society 19/4/2019 Research article Police Scotland gets ‘raw deal’ from Scottish Government, claims MSP Police Scotland is getting a “raw deal” from the Scottish Government on funding and is lagging behind other forces, a Labour MSP has claimed. The Scotsman 19/4/2019 News Lincolnshire Police call upon parishes to help protect county’s churches from thieves Lincolnshire Police are stepping up their campaign against church lead thieves after a recent spike in incidents, urging communities to report suspicious activity. Sleaford Standard 19/4/2019 News Preparing Individuals For Leadership in Australasia, the United States, and the UK Much is said about the importance of leadership in policing. In policing leadership is a key variable in organisational effectiveness, public confidence and employee well-being. We demand that our police leaders are ethical, decisive, skilled, and have the internal and external legitimacy needed to exert influence inside and outside the workplace. There are many advantages to such a pipeline approach to organisational leadership, and it presents organisations with an unparalleled opportunity to develop leaders and leadership talent over an extended period. There are questions, of course, about how much advantage our police organisations really take of this opportunity; how coherently leader development is planned and organised; and how effective our development models are. In this paper, we explore leader development in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Drawing on data collected through semi-structured interviews with established senior police leaders in each country we explore development journeys, opportunities for learning inside and outside of policing, the impact of leader development on leadership-style and decision-making, and how well-prepared leaders feel for their roles having transited their organisational pipelines. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 19/4/2019 Research article Northumbria Police see drop in number of hourse burglaries after dedicated work from officers Police are celebrating a reduction in house burglaries of more than 10%. The Shields Gazette 19/4/2019 News My Kids Won’t Grow Up Here’: Policing, Bordering and Belonging Police researchers have long posited a connection between policing and belonging, or between policing and related concepts such as citizenship. However, much of this literature does not include empirical data demonstrating the actual impact of policing experiences on individuals and communities. Where it does, belonging is rarely located at the centre of analysis. In this article, I explore the role of policing in generating experiences and perceptions of belonging. I connect the theoretical literature on policing, borders and belonging by conceiving of everyday policing as a racialized process of social bordering, and present evidence from a qualitative study with migrant communities in southern-eastern Melbourne, Australia. I conclude that discriminatory policing reinforces social boundaries that are relevant to both ‘belonging’ and the ‘politics of belonging’, and identify police, in conjunction with other social actors and institutions, as potentially powerful agents of ‘governmental belonging’. Theoretical Criminology 19/4/2019 Research article Patrolling the ‘Thin Blue Line’ in A World in Motion: An Exploration of the Crime–Migration Nexus in UK Policing This article examines the contemporary role of the police in patrolling the nation’s territorial and social borders. The police play an important role in framing ideas and perceptions of order and disorder. By selecting when and against whom to apply coercion, the police not only constitute crime and criminals. They shape the boundaries of civility and patrol the margins of citizenship. Such role has been revitalized lately as they are tasked with immigration enforcement functions. Drawing on an empirical examination of immigration–police cooperation in England, I explore how police and immigration officers define the remits of their job and work alongside each other in everyday policing. I argue that the reliance on immigration enforcement by the police evinces the limitations of modern policing to decipher the new geographies of crime and disorder, and their difficulties in offering a reassuring response to public anxieties and ultimately in producing social order. Theoretical Criminology 19/4/2019 Research article Northern Ireland: What happened last night and was murdered journalist Lyra McKee targeted because she was reporting on sectarian violence? Police believe Lyra McKee was hit by a gunman targeting police officers. The Independent 19/4/2019 News Scots police officers are among the worst funded in Britain Police Scotland has one of the lowest budgets for vehicles, buildings, computers and other kit of any force in the UK, the House of Commons library has found. The Herald (Scotland) 19/4/2019 News Essex Police welcomes 59 new officers at passing out ceremony at Chelmsford HQ They were welcomed into the force by Deputy Chief Constable Pippa Mills, Assistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Roger Hirst and Essex County Council Chairman John Jowers. Chelmsford & Mid Essex Times 19/4/2019 News Extinction Rebellion protests: police surround Extinction Rebellion youth activists at Heathrow as demonstrations enter fifth day Around 15 youths arrived at the UK's busiest airport on Good Friday for the planned demonstration, holding a banner with the words "Are we the last generation". The group were moved onto the pavement by police at one of the road entrances to the airport. The Standard 19/4/2019 News Derry police blame dissident republicans for journalist’s death Lyra McKee, 29, shot during riots in which petrol bombs were thrown and cars set alight. The Guardian 19/4/2019 News Journalist killed in Derry ‘terrorist incident’, say Northern Ireland police Lyra McKee, 29, named as victim after shots were fired, petrol bombs thrown and cars torched during rioting in Creggan area The Guardian 19/4/2019 News Met police bid to double special constables to help fight against violent crime The Metropolitan Police are looking to double the number of special constables to help plug gaps in the fight against violent crime. The Telegraph 19/4/2019 News Defibrillators fitted in Roads Policing vehicles Life-saving defibrillators have been fitted in Roads Policing Unit vehicles and GoSafe vans across North Wales. The Leader 19/4/2019 News I back today’s knife crime march – but it should never have reached this stage Birmingham MP Jack Dromey writes for Birmingham Live about the city's knife crime crisis Birmingham Live 19/4/2019 Feature, Opinion Police station will be retained in Sutton Coldfield as PCC gives ‘cast iron guarantee’ Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson says Sutton Coldfield will have a police station and publicly accessible front desk Birmingham Live 19/4/2019 News The Yorkshire Post says: Police officers are only as good as their community links – even now The challenges facing police officers today are very different to the Dixon of Dock Green era – or, more pertinently from a Yorkshire point of view, Heartbeat when the biggest threat to law and order was, invariably, an isolated case of sheep rustling. The Yorkshire Post 19/4/2019 Climate protests: How do police control demonstrations? Some 400 climate-change protesters have been arrested after several days of demonstrations in central London. BBC 19/4/2019 Analysis, Feature «377837793780378137823783378437853786Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
