Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 98687 total results. Showing results 76561 to 76580 «382538263827382838293830383138323833Next ›Last » How Police Officers Assess For Mental Illnesses The authors examined how police officers assess for mental illnesses and how those assessments vary by location. Researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 officers working in two police districts in one city. Findings from the study indicate that officers make assessments based on information from dispatch, collateral contacts, and behavioural observations on the scene. The authors also found that neighbourhood context shaped the assessment process due to variations in types of information that were available to officers in different locations. The findings indicate that there is a need to improve the quality of all three sources of information. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 20/11/2018 Research article Of Common Bonds: Accounting For Intergenerational Culture Competency in Community Policing Community policing is grounded in a set of knowledge and skills that promotes a collaborative relationship between community residents, law enforcement, public and private industry, and governing elected officials to achieve safe and sustainable communities. In the fall of 2016, on the heels of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s Investigative Report, a cohort of Morgan State University’s School of Social Work faculty, trained in the results-based accountability (RBA) model, developed and implemented an interactive workshop on cultural competency with 70 community partners from law enforcement. Cultural competence is an inherit cornerstone of a viable community and police partnership. This article shares how outcome-based performance strategies such as RBA can facilitate a pathway for enhancing community generational cultural competence leading to public safety. Race and Justice 20/11/2018 Research article Concentrations and Specialisation of Mental Health–related Calls For Police Service Over the past two decades, research has consistently shown that criminal activity concentrates at places. Places also exhibit specialization in criminal activity, largely based on criminal opportunities. However, recent research has also shown that criminal events are only a relatively small fraction of calls for police service, generally 20–30%. The authors investigate the spatial concentrations and spatial specialization of mental health–related calls for police service in a number of municipalities in British Columbia. Overall, the authors find that mental health–related calls are more concentrated in space than criminal events and that specialization relates to social- and health-related services for the mentally ill. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 20/11/2018 Research article The Opioid Epidemic and the Role of Law Enforcement Officers in Saving Lives The authors discusses the nature and extent of opioid addiction in the United States and examines the critical role that law enforcement officers can play in reversing the lethal effects of opioid overdose by implementing opioid-reversal programs with naloxone, which is a safe, effective, and easy-to-administer drug. The current opioid epidemic now poses one of the country’s most serious medical challenges. The dramatic climb in opioid overdose deaths in the United States paralleled the booming legal market in prescription opioids. More than 100 Americans, on average, die each day from opioid overdose. Since 2000, the number of overdose deaths from opioids has quadrupled to nearly half a million people. Naloxone administration among law enforcement officers has been gaining momentum. Throughout the country, law enforcement agencies have been initiating overdose reversal programs to stem the rising tide of deaths from opioids. As of March 2018, a total of 2,300 law enforcement agencies in 42 states reported that they administered a naloxone rescue program. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 20/11/2018 Research article Police Response to People With Mental Illnesses in A Major U.S. City: the Boston Experience With the Co-Responder Model Like most major city police agencies, the Boston Police Department (BPD) serves a sizeable population of individuals with behavioural health challenges. In 2017, the BPD received a total of 681,546 calls for service; of those, 5,953 calls specifically involved people with mental illnesses. To better meet the needs of these individuals, the BPD has a strong history of working with the Boston Emergency Services Team (BEST) of the Boston Medical Center. This partnership resulted in the creation of the BPD’s co-response program, which was launched in January 2011 as a means to team Boston police officers with BEST clinicians. The goal of the program is to provide community-based psychiatric crisis services to stabilize nonviolent persons experiencing psychiatric emergencies, diverting these individuals from arrest and the criminal justice system when appropriate. In this article, we explore the development and implementation of the co-response model, both nationally and in Boston. Next, using quantitative co-responder data, we examine short-term outcomes of the BPD co-responder program. Finally, using qualitative data from officer interviews, we discuss the perspectives of police officers on the utility and effectiveness of the co-responder approach in Boston. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 20/11/2018 Research article Exploring Police Response to Mental Health Calls in A Nonurban Area: A Case Study of Roanoke County, Virginia Due to a lack of community mental health services, police departments in nonurban/rural communities are often the first and only resource available for individuals experiencing mental health issues. The authors use both calls for service data and an officer-completed survey to examine the challenges officers in a nonurban police department face when responding to mental health–related calls, such as lengthy call times and increased likelihood of use of force. Though officers feel they have a duty to assist individuals with mental health issues, many officers are not satisfied with departmentally available options and desire better alternatives for responding to mental health–related calls. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 20/11/2018 Research article Police Interactions With People Perceived to Have A Mental Health Problem: A Critical Review of Frames, Terminology, and Definitions In the last two decades, interest in the topic of how police interact with individuals perceived to have a mental health problem has increased substantially. This interest has produced a growing body of research on the topic and with it an expansion in the variety of terms and frames used in discussing the issue. The variation in terminology and topic framing is important to consider for a number of theoretical and methodological reasons, including our ability as researchers to shape the wider response to the issue and concerns about the extent to which the varied terms are valid and comparable. To explore this topic, we undertook a scoping review of 92 articles on the topic published between 2000 and 2017. The findings show that the current framing tends to emphasize issues related to the mental health system and police training to the detriment of other forces related to the issue such as housing, poverty, and stigma. The analysis also shows that person with mental illness is the most common terminology used in the literature, but its use raises some concerns about validity and precision. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 20/11/2018 Research article Exploring Physical Force and Subject Resistance in Police Encounters With People With Behavioural Health Issues The interaction between police use of force and subject resistance or noncompliance is particularly complex in cases involving people with behavioural health issues (PBHI). Using three years of incident reports (2014–2016) and an officer survey from a midsize suburban police department, the authors explore this interaction and officers’ experiences and perceptions of encounters with PBHI. They find that police are less likely to use physical force in cases involving PBHI, even in the face of more, and more severe, resistance. However, officers believe they use force more frequently and are unsatisfied with the options available to them to address behavioural health challenges. The authors conclude with recommendations for police training and practice. Victims and Offenders - Registration at source 20/11/2018 Research article Offender management: Why crime committed in high security hospitals should still be investigated Assaults against staff at Ashworth High Security Hospital cost the NHS nearly £400,000 in 2011. In her presentation to this year's Mental Health and Policing Conference, Merseyside Detective Constable and Mental Health Investigator Samantha Keaton explained the importance of prosecuting offenders detained in a mental health facility. Syreeta Lund reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 20/11/2018 Opinion Force welcomes new deputy chief constable A new deputy chief constable will join Sussex Police this week. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/11/2018 News Tri-force termination confimed Forces unable to reach agreement. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/11/2018 News Implementing A Burglary Prevention Program With Evidence-Based Tracking: A Case Study How was a system of tracking and feedback implemented to achieve a high percentage of treatment delivered as intended to residences targeted for super cocooning, and how successful was the tracking in ensuring implementation of the cocooning program? The case study of implementing a tracking system for notifying neighbours of burglary victims is based on intensive tracking of all 43 burglaries in a 2-month summer period in one small area of Greater Manchester. The system of tracking featured a written paper and pencil report on each residence visited, with entries audited against GPS records of where each reporting officer was located at the times and places listed in the written report. Body-worn video records were used to triangulate the written and GPS records. The policy tracked was the goal of face-to-face contact with residents of four houses on either side of each burgled residence, plus the initially burgled home, or nine visits per burglary. Of the potential 387 homes to visit after each burglary, only 266 occupied dwellings were identified, of which 230 (93%) were visited by Police Community Service Officers (PCSOs) assigned, 141 of them within 2 days after the initial burglary (61%). These visits and second visits resulted in 154 face-to-face discussions warning occupants about an elevated risk of burglary (58%). Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 20/11/2018 Research article Chief: Stop and search core part of British policing Bedfordshire chief says technology means officers and communities can rest assured when tactic is used Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/11/2018 News ‘There must be a fair settlement for officers’ says chief NPCC lead for pay also criticises 'utterly ridiculous' pension costs. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/11/2018 News Proposals for a city operation centre and updated CCTV network The city council will bring forward proposals to set up a citywide operations centre to oversee a new CCTV system instead of improving the Capital’s current network which would be “a waste of money”. The “resilience hub” would allow the council to monitor its CCTV coverage across the city, as well as a new license plate recognition system, street lights, traffic signals and congestion. The Edinburgh Reporter 20/11/2018 News Cops flood Scottish streets as 999 emergency hotline crashes for hours and also hits ambulance and fire rescue crews Extra police rushed out across Tayside and Fife and locals told to head for help themselves until lifeline's eventually restored The Scottish Sun 20/11/2018 News Psychoactive drug use falls Use of new psychoactive substances (NPS) has fallen since the Psychoactive Drugs Act (PSA) 2016 came into force, according to a new Home Office report published on Monday (November 19). Police Professional 20/11/2018 News A joint statement from Chief Constable Andy Marsh and Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens It is with regret that we announce that discussions to improve the future working arrangements of the Tri Force Specialist Operations, intended to improve the interoperability, efficiency and effectiveness of the specialist services have ended without agreement. Avon & Somerset Constabulary 20/11/2018 News Police say 999 service restored after BT issue in Tayside and Fife Police Scotland has said that problems which resulted in a loss of the 999 phone service across Tayside and Fife have been resolved. BBC 20/11/2018 News Police chief blasts our ‘broken society’: Witnesses refuse to help WPC attacked by thug Thugs with "no respect for society" are attacking officers while people watch on, a police chief warned last night. Ken Marsh, the chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said forces may even let criminals go if the public does not "stand up for what is right" and prevent yobs from viciously attacking them. Express 20/11/2018 News «382538263827382838293830383138323833Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
