Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103261 total results. Showing results 78181 to 78200 «390639073908390939103911391239133914Next ›Last » European regulations leave police struggling to find replacement vehicles Tough new European emission regulations for cars have put the brakes on police plans to update worn-out versions of their high performance vehicles, it has emerged, because of a delay in getting replacements to pass new tests. The Star (Yorkshire) 27/3/2019 News Parking tax could expose police to greater risk of terrorism, officers warn A new workplace parking tax could expose police officers to a greater risk of terrorism, the trade union representing rank and file officers has claimed. The Herald (Scotland) 27/3/2019 News Police ‘should need warrant’ to download phone data Police officers should be prevented from accessing people's personal mobile phone data without a search warrant, a privacy campaign group has said. BBC 27/3/2019 News Achieving Cultural Change Through Organizational Justice: the Case of Stop and Search in Scotland In recent years, the scale, impact and legality of stop and search in Scotland has been subject to intense critical scrutiny, leading to major legal and policy reform in 2016. Based on these events, including an early unsuccessful attempt by Police Scotland to reform the tactic (the ‘Fife Pilot’), this article presents original theoretical and empirical insights into organizational change in policing. Building on the theoretical perspectives of Chan and Bradford and Quinton on organizational culture and justice respectively, the article sets out a dynamic model of organizational justice in policing. While Scotland has seen significant legislative reform apropos stop and search, we conclude that real change in police practice and culture will require effective leadership and a strong commitment to organizational justice. We also suggest how insights from the analysis might be applied to other jurisdictions and policing fields, with a view to securing more citizen-focused, democratic policing. Criminology and Criminal Justice 27/3/2019 Research article Intimate Partner Homicide in Denmark 2007–2017: Tracking Potential Predictors of Fatal Violence What are the characteristics of intimate partner homicide in Denmark that may inform more accurate prediction and prevention of such crimes, and how is knowledge of those facts distributed across families, police and other agencies? All Danish police data on all 77 cases of intimate partner homicide (IPH) reported over 11 years (2007 through 2017) in 10 of the 12 Danish Police Districts were coded by the first author, comprising 75% of all known IPH cases in Denmark for those years and 100% of the cases in Districts that allowed access to their investigative files. Potentially predictive variables were selected for coding based on similar studies recently completed in the UK and Australia, with comparisons made between these Danish results and the prior findings. Special emphasis was placed on which potential predictors had been known by some organisation or person, but never reported to police until after the homicides had occurred. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 27/3/2019 Research article Romanian, UK police break up people and drug smuggling network An international network of prostitution, drug trafficking and money laundering has been broken up following raids by investigators in Romania and the UK, according to a press release by the Romanian organised crime directorate on Wednesday. EU-OCS 27/3/2019 News Police in Illinois launch online rape evidence tracking tool Survivors of sexual assault in the US state of Illinois will soon be able to monitor online the progress of DNA evidence related to their case. Police Professional 27/3/2019 News Use of policing statistics in public discourse The Code of Practice is clear that statistics add value when they support society’s need for information. Our interest in the importance of statistics and data in public discourse reflects that fundamental idea. The choice of policing for our first review examining statistics in public discourse reflects that policing and crime are never far from the public’s interest. This paper is the result of discussions with various organisations with an interest in policing, statistics and media debate. Its purpose is to set an ambition that statistics can build on what’s produced to inform a better public conversation about policing. Office for Statistics regulation (OSR) 27/3/2019 Report Newcastle Islamic centre attack: Six teenagers arrested after Qurans ripped up and windows smashed Six teenagers have been arrested after an Islamic education centre was ransacked with copies of the Quran ripped up and windows smashed, police said. The Independent 27/3/2019 News London knife crime: Six stabbings in less than six hours including ‘targeted attack’ in capital The knife crime epidemic that continues to plague the streets of London showed no sign of slowing yesterday as six stabbings were reported in less than six hours in the capital. The Telegraph 27/3/2019 News Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector: “The backwardness of some forces is quite startling.” Data is the oxygen of police efficiency and effectiveness and how it is used is enormously important, but too many forces are playing catch up in adopting data-driven technology, says HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services Sir Tom Winsor. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 27/3/2019 Opinion Are we sleepwalking into an AI police state? Predictive analytics enabling law enforcement to identify “high-risk” areas has highlighted ethical and legal quandaries Raconteur 27/3/2019 Analysis, Feature ‘We will not let up on bringing distraction-driving offenders to justice’ Policing has issued a “concerned” warning that the effects of doubling the penalties for motorists caught using handheld mobile phones on the road are wearing off. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 27/3/2019 News Graduates ‘will not be fast-tracked into senior police jobs’ Humza Yousaf will tell the Scottish Police Federation conference that the move would be wrong for Scottish community policing. BBC 27/3/2019 News Man shot dead in his bedroom by armed police, inquest hears A 52-year-old man was fatally shot by armed police in a bedroom when six firearms officers went into a block of flats to make an arrest, an inquest has heard. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 27/3/2019 News Reimagining Police Engagement? Kenya National Police Service on Social Media Official police use of social media for public engagement is a relatively new phenomenon on the African continent and the Kenya National Police Service (NPS) is at the forefront of this trend. Drawing on a combination of interviews, focus groups, policy documents, and social media data, this article explores the NPS’s motivations and goals in using social media. It also highlights many of the challenges they have faced in implementing their strategy. The research finds that while the use of social media in policing aims to decentralise police communication efforts, in Kenya is has recentralized them. Furthermore, instead of reforming the way the police and public interact, it often serves to reinforce existing practices. While social media does not yet seem to be revolutionising the way the police engage with the public in Kenya, there are indications that the public is receptive to police social media accounts. In an environment where there is little trust in the police, this openness to engagement is considered an encouraging achievement within the NPS. Psychology Crime and Law - Registration at source 27/3/2019 Research article Perceptions of Police-Juvenile Contact Predicts Self-Reported Offending in Adolescent Males Evidence suggests that positive experiences with the police can foster attitudes of respect towards the justice system that can reduce an adolescents’ propensity to commit later illegal behaviors. To advance prior work, we tested whether this association might be stronger for those adolescents who associate with deviant peers. Additionally, we tested whether the link between attitudes towards police and the justice system, and the influence of peer delinquency, would be weaker for those with elevated callous–unemotional (CU) traits. These predictions were examined in a prospective study using a sample (N = 1,216) of adolescent males who were followed prospectively for 2 years following their first official contact with the juvenile justice system. Positive experiences with the police following the youth’s first arrest were associated with less self-reported delinquency 2 years later, which was partially mediated by reductions in adolescents’ cynicism about the legal system. However, this link was only significant for youth with low levels of peer delinquency. Although CU traits were related to less positive perceptions of experiences with the police and greater cynicism about the justice system, CU traits did not moderate the associations among experiences, attitudes, and later illegal behavior nor did they moderate the influence of peer delinquency. Psychology Crime and Law - Registration at source 27/3/2019 Research article ‘They Wanna Be Us’; PCSO Performances, Uniforms, and Struggles For Acceptance Police community support officers (PCSOs) in England and Wales have become an integral part of neighbourhood policing since their national roll-out in 2008. The research reported here is based on the first-hand accounts of PCSOs from a four-month ethnographic study in a northern police force. Using Erving Goffman’s theoretical framework and concept of performances, this paper argues that PCSOs still face ongoing pressures from inside the organisation to defend their position to police colleagues. PCSOs are still experiencing negative and bullying attitudes toward their existence and document the difficulties they face in being accepted. In response to this, some PCSOs have been known to conceal their status by modifying their uniform and using a current desire for increased visibility to enable presentational strategies in image management. Policing and Society - Registration at source 27/3/2019 Research article Halifax District RCMP Interim Report on Recommendations in the Halifax, Nova Scotia: Street Checks Report CANADA: On March 27, 2019, the Halifax, Nova Scotia: Street Checks Report authored by Dr. Scot Wortley and commissioned by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission was released. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 27/3/2019 Report West Midlands Police chief reveals the three things responsible for Birmingham’s knife crime crisis Dave Thompson, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, says three problems are causing a wave of knife crime in Birmingham and the West Midlands Birmingham Live 27/3/2019 News «390639073908390939103911391239133914Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
