Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115731 total results. Showing results 80021 to 80040 «399839994000400140024003400440054006Next ›Last » Lockdown could be ‘unpoliceable’ next weekend, police warn Chief constables say a loosening of restrictions will make enforcement harder The Guardian 7/5/2020 News “Truly Free Consent”? Clarifying the Nature of Police Legitimacy Using Causal Mediation Analysis To test whether normative and non-normative forms of obligation to obey the police are empirically distinct and to assess whether they exhibit different dynamics in terms of the downstream effects of police-citizen contact. Analysing data from the Scottish Community Engagement Trial of procedurally just policing, we use natural effect modelling for causally ordered mediators to assess causal pathways that include—but also extend beyond—the experimental treatment to procedural justice. Normative and non-normative forms of obligation are empirically distinct. Normative obligation to obey the police is sensitive to procedurally just or unjust police behaviour, and influences cooperation with the police and traffic law compliance in a way that is consistent with procedural justice theory. Non-normative obligation to obey the police is ‘sticky’ and unresponsive. Legitimacy can reasonably be defined partly as normative obligation with its expected beneficial downstream effects, so long as it is measured properly. Journal of Experimental Criminology 7/5/2020 Research article Switching off auto-pilot: Covid-19 is an opportunity to reshape law enforcement USA: Covid-19 has presented law enforcement with huge challenges, but Dr. Joseph A. Cortez, Associate Professor at the University of Southern California and Lieutenant at the Santa Monica Police Department, argues it is also an unprecedented opportunity to switch off 'auto-pilot' and use the lessons learnt to help re-shape the future of policing. Policing Insight - Registration at source 7/5/2020 Analysis, Feature The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Eyewitness Identification Practice in Police Officers – A Self-Report Survey Study Witness identification practice of the police plays a critical role in the criminal proceedings. The current study examines police officers’ knowledge regarding factors affecting witness memory as well as witness interview and identification practices in Taiwan, after relevant judicial reform had been implemented for more than a decade. A total of 499 police officers in Taiwan participated in the survey to report their knowledge and actual practice of eyewitness interview and identification. The findings revealed strengths as well as weaknesses in their current practice. More disconcertingly, most (87.8%) of them did not receive relevant training, and those who received training scored lower in both eyewitness knowledge and witness identification practice than those who received no training. These findings suggested that operations of eyewitness identification were not completely in line with recommended best practice outlined in recent Judicial Reform and that the current training need to be improved to increase its effectiveness. Psychology Crime and Law - Registration at source 7/5/2020 Research article Conflicting Thought Styles? – Responsibility and Accountability in the Education of Swedish Police Officers This paper discusses how Swedish police education actors navigate the act of introducing new police officers to tasks in an organisation permeated by a new public management ideology. This study’s empirical data derive from four studies on intra-professional police educators and police probationers. By interpreting and analysing these data using a theoretical framework based on styles of thought and reflexivity, a picture of how Swedish police organisations contain two somewhat contradictory thought styles emerges. The findings indicate that a reflexive awareness of this situation is crucial for educators to properly prepare new police officers for complex and important tasks. This paper contributes to current vocational training and education methods by offering new perspectives on how professional development can be enhanced in law enforcement and similar occupations. Policing and Society - Registration at source 7/5/2020 Research article Understanding the Status of Evidence in Policing Research: Reflections From A Study of Policing Domestic Abuse Experimentation, innovation, and evaluation are key elements of Evidence Based Policing (EBP), itself often aligned to wider efforts to improve police professionalism. Producing new evidence of ‘what works’ is an important part of the challenge of developing more effective policing responses to complex demands in a period of limited resources. Drawing on our experience of understanding successful innovations in policing domestic abuse, we reflect on the quality and status of research evidence in policing and the implications that these might have in terms of informing good practice. We worked in collaboration with police staff to identify areas in which innovation in policing domestic abuse has been successful. Selected projects were required to meet the criteria of having been developed from an evidence base (broadly defined to include professional expertise, scientific research and guidance from authoritative bodies), subject to evaluation and as having had a demonstrable positive impact. Our collaborative work identified some interesting variations in terms of understandings of these three criteria in the context of innovations in policing domestic abuse. Here we reflect on what passes as evidence and evaluation and more broadly what counts as research which helps determine what works, all as part of our project to build capacity through collaborative partnership policing. Policing and Society - Registration at source 7/5/2020 Research article Effectiveness and Efficiency: Oslo Police Officers’ Perspectives of the Necessity and Utility of Temporarily Routinely Arming in Response to A Terrorist Threat Officers from the Norwegian police were routinely armed with firearms from July 2014 to February 2016 in response to a terror threat. This paper explores the experiences of a sample of officers (N = 16) who were routinely armed during this period. The research took a mixed-methods approach using semi-structured interviews one month before the policy was rescinded. Two key themes emerged. First, officers believed that being routinely armed was advantageous for routine police activities. Officers described that tactical planning had improved as it was no longer necessary to wait for permission to respond with a firearm. The associated tactical freedom triggered an increase in self-belief in their effectiveness and efficiency. Second, officers believed that although officers had observed some behavioural changes when interacting with citizens, over time, citizens became acclimatised to the presence of firearms. These findings provide new empirical evidence relevant to the debate surrounding the implications of permanently arming a routinely unarmed police force. Policing and Society - Registration at source 7/5/2020 Research article Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Policing Family Violence: the Reliability, Validity and Feasibility of A Risk Assessment Instrument For Prioritising Police Response Frontline police officers who attend domestic violence incidents face a considerable challenge in effectively determining the extent to which limited police resources should be invested in further assessment and management of a case to ensure safety. Assessing the risk of future family violence has been proposed as a way of deciding which cases police should focus their management efforts on. However, risk assessment based on police judgement alone has been shown to be inaccurate, leading to the use of structured risk assessment instruments in many jurisdictions. This paper reports the results of three separate studies that were designed to assess the reliability, predictive validity and feasibility of one such instrument; the Victoria Police Screening Assessment for Family Violence Risk (VP-SAFvR). The VP-SAFvR is an actuarial tool intended to assist police decision making in family violence cases. The first study indicated that the VP-SAFvR had excellent reliability. The second study, a prospective study of 3963 cases demonstrated moderate predictive validity. The final study, based on surveys and focus groups suggested that the tool was viewed as easy to use by the majority of police surveyed. However, they identified some problems in implementation that could be improved to enhance the feasibility of using such instruments in the field. The results demonstrate that structured risk assessment can be used to assist police decision making in a way that is timely, feasible and reasonably accurate. Policing and Society - Registration at source 7/5/2020 Research article Retention of experienced officers is a priority, Home Office says Home Office claims the rate of those leaving voluntarily before the normal retirement age is now 2% Police Oracle - Subscription at source 7/5/2020 News The austerity effect Last year’s announcements of additional funding for police forces in the UK has been well received by the public sector. Police Professional - Subscription at source 7/5/2020 Feature, Opinion Cancelled exams, 8-week training and COVID-19 Police Federation Professional Development lead Dave Bamber highlights the ways the College of Policing and the Federation are working together in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Police Professional 7/5/2020 Feature APT groups attacking UK bodies critical to coronavirus response, NCSC warns Hackers are targeting healthcare bodies and pharmaceutical companies IT PRO 7/5/2020 News Coronavirus: Why we must tackle hard questions about police power With some daily headlines in Britain focused on the use of police powers in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Professor Ian Loader from the University of Oxford considers the role of the police and how effective the current police response has been. Policing Insight 7/5/2020 Feature, Opinion More than £60k lost to scammers Despite the global lockdown, a senior PSNI officer says scammers are continuing to defraud members of the community of large amounts of money. Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) 7/5/2020 News Prison officers will get £4,100 extra for doing nine hours a week more during Covid-19 crisis while nurses get nothing Prison officers will be paid up to £4,100 extra for working nine hours per week more throughout the coronavirus crisis, it has been revealed. Mail Online 7/5/2020 News The hidden findings on George Pell are now clear: he could have protected children from abuse. He didn’t For two and a half years the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s verdict on Pell has been like buried ordnance, exploding only now. The Guardian 7/5/2020 News UK’s worst speeding offences revealed – including 120mph in a 20mph zone The worst speeding offences in the UK have been revealed. Speeding offences are rising across the country, with one driver caught doing six times the limit last year. The Herald (Oxfordshire) 7/5/2020 News Coronavirus: Extra police powers risk undermining public trust Dr Alex Oaten from the University of Birmingham and Dr Chris Allen from the University of Leicester consider the principle of policing by consent and whether this has been lost in the policing reponse by some forces to the COVID-19 pandemic. Policing Insight 7/5/2020 Analysis, Feature Unloved and now unelected: Do the Police and Crime Commissioner elections still matter? The elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales, were due take place today (7 May) and were cancelled due to the pandemic, but has anyone noticed? Prospective Labour candidate for Warwickshire Ben Twomey argues that in 2021, following the fallout from the pandemic, it will even more important the public cast their vote. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 7/5/2020 Feature, Opinion, UK PCC Elections Crime ‘more visible’ in lockdown as police make 132 drug arrests The lockdown is making criminal activity more visible - according North Yorkshire Police's chief constable. The Press (York) 7/5/2020 News «399839994000400140024003400440054006Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
