Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115085 total results. Showing results 7661 to 7680 «380381382383384385386387388Next ›Last » New rules for police use of force ‘undermine the rule of law’ say campaigners The government has announced new rules to increase protections for police officers facing misconduct hearings following recommendations from a review by Sir Adrian Fulford, former judge, and Tim Godwin, former police chief. Misconduct hearings will now apply the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt rather than the civil test on the balance of probabilities. Officers will be assessed on whether they held an ‘honest belief’ that the use of force was necessary in a dangerous situation. Police officers often justify their use of force on self-defence. The new rules will make it harder to challenge that defence. The Justice Gap 27/10/2025 News Over 60% of people in Manitoba’s ankle monitoring program were rearrested or breached rules CANADA: Prosecutor describes failure rate as 'staggering,' but justice minister says program eases strain on police CBC News (Canada) 27/10/2025 News NSW inquiry into unsolved murders, missing persons will divert police resources, Homicide Squad chief says AUSTRALIA: The head of the NSW Police Force's Homicide Squad says officers may be diverted from their duties to assist a new state parliamentary inquiry looking into unsolved murders. NSW Legalise Cannabis MP Jeremy Buckingham secured support from the state government earlier this month for the inquiry, which is examining unsolved murders and long-term missing persons cases in the state between 1965 and 2010. ABC News (Australia) 27/10/2025 News Police discuss drop in anti social behaviour in Bournemouth Police have said that anti social behaviour 'has continued to fall' since 2024, due to community collaboration and hotspot policing. Daily Echo (Bournemouth) 27/10/2025 News Thousands of police officers opting out of ‘unaffordable’ gold-plated pension scheme Experts have stressed the generosity of police pensions for those who can afford to stay in the scheme i News 27/10/2025 News Prisons to start ‘strengthened’ checks after migrant released in error David Lammy will set out a series of measures aimed at strengthening the system as he faces questions about the blunder from MPs. The Independent 27/10/2025 News Woman charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at Tasmanian police in Collinsvale driveway AUSTRALIA: A southern Tasmanian woman has been charged with attempted murder after a police car was shot as officers drove up a driveway, police say. ABC News (Australia) 27/10/2025 News Police Minister Felix Ellis says state budget will include funds for metal detection wands AUSTRALIA: Police are treating the stabbing death of a 20-year-old in Hobart over the weekend as murder. ABC Listen (Australia) 27/10/2025 Audio, News Gardaí accused of ‘corruption’ offences sent forward for trial to Circuit Court in Midlands REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Two members of An Garda Siochána who were attached to the Longford-Mayo-Roscommon district, and who currently stand accused of corruption-related offences, have been served with books of evidence and will now go forward for trial next week. Offaly Live 27/10/2025 News The Brief: the officer W80 case and the Rapid Review of police use of force Matthew Butt KC examines the legal impilications of the officer W80 case and the subsequent Rapid Review on police use of force. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 27/10/2025 News AI Post-Call Analysis: Transforming police contact insight As International Control Room Week gets underway, Essex Assistant Chief Constable Stuart Hooper, the National Police Chiefs’ Council Contact Operations Lead, outlines the development of AI Post-Call Analysis, which produces concise, easy-to-read summaries of all incoming control room contact and automatically categorises calls by topic to enable rapid retrieval and analysis – one of a tranche of technical innovations designed to help forces “move from overwhelmed to empowered”. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 27/10/2025 Feature, Innovation, Opinion Better protection for victims at risk of violence as fee scrapped From next month, survivors of violence and domestic abuse will no longer have to pay over £300 to ensure their abuser cannot track them down via public records. Ministry of Justice (MoJ) 27/10/2025 News New commission to review police leadership amid reform drive A new independent commission has been launched to review police leadership at every level, aiming to ensure the service can meet changing demands and public expectations. Emergency Services Times 27/10/2025 News Pioneering Passivhaus police station opened in Cheshire Wilmslow Police Station in Cheshire is the first police station in the UK to achieve the energy saving standard known as Passivhaus and was officially opened at a ribbon cutting ceremony earlier this month. Emergency Services Times 27/10/2025 News Metropolitan Police runs drone programme The Metropolitan Police Service has begun a trial using drones to feed intelligence to police officers responding to emergencies. UKAuthority.com 27/10/2025 News Met Police to review 9,000 cases of child sexual exploitation The force said many of the cases did not fit the common understanding of grooming gang offending. The Independent 26/10/2025 News Met investigates 9,000 suspected grooming cases in London Sadiq Khan accused of ‘stonewalling’ on rape gangs in capital, says London’s Tory leader The Telegraph - Subscription at source 26/10/2025 News Domestic abuse reports to Donegal Gardai have soared by 76% in five years REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Across the county, calls rose from 1,204 in 2020 to 2,115 in 2024 (the latest year for which there are complete figures), an increase of 76%. Letterkenny Live (Republic of Ireland) 26/10/2025 News Patch-based latent fingerprint recognition: A novel approach for reliable identification of partial prints Latent fingerprints, that are imperative for forensic investigations, are seldom uplifted perfectly. These unintentional impressions left at crime sites are mostly partial with insufficient features that are not suitable for recognition. Further, the existing acquisition approaches rely on the single-shot touch-based capturing mechanism wherein the reagents are physically applied to the crucial evidence for examination. The current paper presents an Automated Patch-based Latent Fingerprint Recognition System for reliable recognition based on partial samples. The experiments were conducted on the samples digitally captured using the touchless Reflected Ultra Violet Imaging System (RUVIS) equipment that can uplift multiple instances of evidence with high resolution. The proposed patch estimation algorithm identifies features to counter manual minutiae matching for estimating optimal patch size. Classical and Generative Adversarial Networks-based augmentations were applied to simulate prints from a realistic crime site and deep feature extraction, respectively. The recognition capability of partial samples is then evaluated for different shallow and deep learning models, where the VGG16 and ResNet50 architectures outperformed. After fine-tuning, the configured model achieved the maximum accuracy of 96% with ResNet50 as the backbone architecture and multiclass SVM as the subject classifier. Weighted average fusion further improved the accuracy by ~2%. The existing patch-based recognition approaches cite accuracy between 68% and 84% on different benchmark data sets. However, the proposed model achieved an accuracy of 98% on the RUVIS data set and 96% when validated on the standard NISTSD27 data set, indicating better generalizability. Journal of Forensic Sciences 26/10/2025 Research article Scotland’s prison population rises to record high Scotland's prison population has reached a record high. The number of people in custody has been rising for many months and on Tuesday hit 8,430. That number surpasses the previous record of 8,420 set in 2012. BBC 26/10/2025 News «380381382383384385386387388Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
