Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103921 total results. Showing results 8021 to 8040 «398399400401402403404405406Next ›Last » Police chief breaks down hours spent dealing with mental health crises CANADA: A large number of policing hours are spent dealing with mental health crises, according to a new report by Kingston Police Chief Scott Fraser. Kingstonist (Canada) - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News Garda numbers dip again in November, report shows REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Garda numbers dipped again last November, continuing a trend throughout 2024 of the strength of the force struggling to push past the 14,000 mark and towards a long-running target of 15,000 members. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 2/1/2025 News Search gets under way again for new chief constable A recruitment campaign to find a new chief constable for Humberside has started again, five months after the force failed to receive a single application for the role. BBC 2/1/2025 News Retire and rehire: best open to all or for chiefs to decide? NPCC sees control of schemes as way to ‘ventilate’ workforce but staff associations call for ‘pensions trap’ to be addressed. Ian Weinfass reports for Police Oracle. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 Feature Full review of signage and motorway layout called for after rise in wrong way driving Some drivers have blamed their sat navs, which they have blindly followed. Reported incidents of wrong-way driving on England’s motorways have increased by 15% in the past year, an investigation has found. A motoring organisation has called for a “full review of signage and road layout”. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News Consideration given to recruiting 50% women to newly formed PSNI, records show Stormont officials did seek legal advice on whether the PSNI's policy of recruiting 50% of all officers from the Catholic community could be challenged as discriminatory. Consideration was given to recruiting women into Northern Ireland’s new police force on a 50:50 basis with men to address their “severe under-representation”, declassified files have revealed. However, legal advice was that a policy that half of new recruits to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) should be women was “not viable”, a memo from 2002 said. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News His Majesty’s Chief Inspector among policing names recognised in New Year Honours List Andy Cooke QPM DL, His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) and the former Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, was among a host of representatives from policing to be recognised in the King's New Year Honours List. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News Double spike in religious hate crimes reported by some forces in past 18 months Significant spikes in religious hate crimes reported to some of England's largest police forces were experienced after the Hamas-Israel conflict began and again following the Southport attacks last year. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News Three Met officers issued final warning over inappropriate jokes made in WhatsApp group The final written warnings were for offensive jokes including in one message where allegations of sexual assault were made light of. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News Twenty-five years on the boundary between state and community: revisiting the ‘Impossibility’ of restorative justice and security informalism Once considered ‘impossible’, community-based restorative justice (CBRJ) in Northern Ireland has commanded attention and criticism in equal measure for over twenty-five years. While a necessary focus of the country’s transition from conflict to peace has centred upon state-led security processes, including police reform, wider perspectives related to informal policing have remained on the margins. This paper aims to revisit critiques around the ‘impossibility’ of restorative justice, originally considered by McEvoy and Mika 2002. In doing so, the authors attempt to demonstrate that the values and principles of CBRJ have in fact transcended the highly contested and politicised security environment of Northern Ireland. In turn, the operation of a key CBRJ organisation – Community Restorative Justice Ireland – has not merely been ‘possible’ but has acted as a fulcrum for transforming community capital, re-imagining justice ownership, and moving society away from the cultures of violence long associated with Northern Ireland’s past. Policing and Society 2/1/2025 Research article Government urged to adopt drug policy integrating police, health and community – but legalisation ruled out A new report from the Centre for Social Justice is calling on the UK Government to rethink its drug policy and focus on an approach which integrates law enforcement, public health and community support to tackle a crisis of “unprecedented proportions”; but the report also warns that experiences in other countries suggest legalisation is not the answer, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 Analysis, Feature Terror in New Orleans: Police hunt for clues about how ISIS-inspired suspect could plow into crowd killing 15 USA: At least 35 injured as a driver – identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen – plowed his truck into a crowd celebrating New Year before firing a weapon. The FBI is now investigating the mass casualty event as an act of terrorism. The Independent 2/1/2025 News Almost half of Britons now have no confidence police will turn up to reports of burglary or car theft, new figures show Almost half of Britons don't have confidence in the police to turn up if their home was burgled, a shocking new poll has revealed. Some 46 per cent of adults have given up on the idea of a home burglary being properly investigated, with 49 per cent saying the same for car thefts. The issue is even worse with pensioners, with 54 per cent of those aged 65 or older expressing a lack of confidence in officers attending their property. Mail Online 2/1/2025 News Half of public believe police would not turn up to burglary Poll reveals lack of confidence in the force is particularly high in those aged 65 or over The Telegraph - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News PFEW seeking legal action against unfair new vetting rules for police officers The Police Federation of England & Wales (PFEW) is exploring legal action to stop new vetting rules which it says will unfairly destroy the careers of good police officers. The Federation says that, while it supports a tightening of the current vetting regime, following the cases of Wayne Couzens and David Carrick, it wants the system backed by government regulation and an independent process. Emergency Services Times 2/1/2025 News Plans to use second homes tax on police patrols Devon and Cornwall's police and crime commissioner (PCC) is to review an idea of using tax windfalls from second homes to increase high-visibility patrols. BBC 2/1/2025 News Police leader champions mental health supports CANADA: York Regional Police saw thousands of calls for service related to mental health in 2023. Bradford Today (Canada) 2/1/2025 News Design flaw leaves most vulnerable policewomen exposed to attack AUSTRALIA: Hundreds of petite frontline female Queensland police officers are less protected than thousands of their colleagues issued with new protective vests. The Courier Mail (Australia) - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News Delays for new vests leave female QPS officers less protected AUSTRALIA: Hundreds of frontline female police officers are less protected than their colleagues due to delays in getting custom-made protective vests. The Age (Australia) - Subscription at source 2/1/2025 News, Video ‘A man exposed himself to me on a video call – police didn’t properly investigate’ In October, business coach Rebecca Amin opened her laptop to join a video call as her children played in the room next door. When her male client turned on his camera Rebecca was shocked to find he was standing naked from the waist down. BBC 2/1/2025 News «398399400401402403404405406Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
