Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115672 total results. Showing results 81621 to 81640 «407840794080408140824083408440854086Next ›Last » Halt public use of facial recognition tech, says equality watchdog Equalities and Human Rights Commission says mass AFR surveillance is discriminatory and stifles free expression The Guardian 12/3/2020 News Police arrest 37 in raids against Fast and Furious lorry gangs Romanian thieves who mounted the bonnets of their vehicles to break into fast-moving lorries in the UK and across Europe have been arrested in a series of police raids. The Times - Subscription at source 12/3/2020 News Police hire Ronaldo guru to teach them how to sleep A police force that said budget cuts meant it could no longer send officers to all reports of shoplifting has hired Cristiano Ronaldo’s “sleep guru” to teach them how to relax. The Times - Subscription at source 12/3/2020 News Sex offender’s hard drive in police commissioner’s safe for 14 years Indecent images of children could not be used as evidence because they were in a police commissioner's safe. BBC 12/3/2020 News Supervisors are “not confident” in dealing with BAME officer issues, MP’s told Early referrals to Professional Standards Department have hit BAME police retention, PCC's tell Macpherson Inquiry follow up committee. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 11/3/2020 News NDP calls on Canada to stop RCMP’s facial-recognition software CANADA: The RCMP and several other police services across Canada have confirmed they used the software Blue Line (Canada) 11/3/2020 News Sleeping Policemen – Stretched police force splashed out on sleep instructor to help cops get a good night’s kip A stretched police force splashed out on a sleep instructor to help officers get a good night’s kip. The Sun 11/3/2020 News Coronavirus: Uncertainty over Kent PCC and Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone local elections The Kent police and crime commissioner election could be put on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak. The poll is due to take place on May 7 but may be among the growing list of events that could be postponed to help limit the spread of the infection. Kent Online 11/3/2020 News New Biometrics Commissioner to limit retention of custody images Scottish Parliament establishes new watchdog to regualte use of biometrics including custody images and live facial recognition Police Oracle - Subscription at source 11/3/2020 News Capita wins Home Office contract to support migration to ESN Capita’s Software division has been awarded a contract by the Home Office to develop a solution to migrate the current Airwave system to the Emergency Services Network (ESN), a new critical communications system to be used by emergency services in the UK. Emergency Services Times 11/3/2020 Scottish Parliament backs plan for oversight of police use of biometric data Legislation to create a Biometrics Commissioner, who will oversee how policing bodies take, store, use and dispose of data such as fingerprints, DNA samples and facial images, has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. Police Professional 11/3/2020 News Forces showing ‘some improvement’ in firearms licensing There has been “some improvement” in firearms licensing performance by police forces across England and Wales according to the latest review by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). Police Professional 11/3/2020 News ‘Pre-charge bail must change’ Federation tells Home Office Federation custody officers are helping to reshape failing pre-charge bail laws by feeding into the Government’s consultation. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 11/3/2020 News APCC Finance lead responds to budget Responding to today’s Budget, APCC Finance Lead, Roger Hirst, Essex Police Fire and Crime Commissioner said: “Today’s Budget comes a few weeks after the Police Budget settlement, which announced, as part of the 20,000 police officer uplift, funding for the 6,000 officers to be recruited by March 2021. Extra investment announced today, including for victims, counter-terrorism and youth violence, are all welcome and will ensure that Police and Crime Commissioners can do more to tackle crime and keep our communities safe. Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) 11/3/2020 Feature, Opinion U.K. Police praised for work on preventing radicalisation but report finds room for improvement Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services has published an inspection report on British police forces’ contribution to the U.K. government’s Prevent program. Prevent is the part of the government’s counterterrorism strategy that aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. Homeland Security Today 11/3/2020 News ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’: Police forcing people to stay apart in cafes as coronavirus crisis wreaks chaos in Italy Police in Italy are forcing customers in cafes to stay one metre apart in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Independent 11/3/2020 News What Is Community Policing?: Divergent Agendas, Practices, and Experiences of Transforming the Police in Kenya In line with global trends, community policing has been a vehicle for transforming the state police in Kenya. This article analyses various community policing efforts in Kenya and argues that many of these initiatives have largely failed to act as a vehicle for transformation due to three interconnected problems of diversity, representation, and ownership. The first problem—diversity—relates to the multiplicity of definitions, manifestations, and practices of community policing, which creates uncertainty and provides space for various actors to engage with it in conflicting ways. The second problem—representation—concerns the identification and creation of the ‘community’: this remains to occur in a state-driven manner and is also not a straightforward concept or organizational unit, especially in a highly multi-ethnic and classed setting as Kenya. The third is ownership: community policing is not experienced or exercised as a partnership, but as a state-centric framework that should remain under the direction and ownership of the state police. We make our claim by focusing on Likoni, Mombasa and drawing from further qualitative data conducted by both authors in Kenya. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 11/3/2020 Research article Designing the Swedish Crime Harm Index: An Evidence-Based Strategy Which method for deriving a Crime Harm Index (Policing 10:171–183, 2016) for Sweden from criminal justice sources offers the best evidence for providing a sensitive indicator of differences in harm levels across offence categories? The number of days of imprisonment for each offence category associated with five different kinds of scales were extracted and compared: consensus by an expert panel of judges, the statutory maximum penalties, statutory minimum penalties, the average of maximum and minimum penalties and the average of actual sentences imposed in a recent time period for each crime type. Unlike the UK, for which the Cambridge Crime Harm Index draws on sentencing guidelines, Sweden has no such guidelines to offer. The data were compared for sensitivity defined as the difference in length of imprisonment days between high and low severity crimes, as well as other characteristics of the data sources. Given the available alternatives, the sentencing data average of actual sentences handed down by crime type provided the greatest reliability and sensitivity across the penalties for offences of high and low severity. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 11/3/2020 Research article Emerging overt surveillance: Maintaining a strategic approach is necessary for public trust In his second blog reflecting on his six-year tenure as Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Tony Porter gives an update on the progress of the National Surveillance Camera Strategy launched in March 2017. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 11/3/2020 Feature, Opinion What do the 2020 PCC elections mean for policing in the years ahead? Mark Cooper, Director of Greymalkin Consulting, has been involved in the development of the Police and Crime Commissioner role since originally overseeing the legislation that introduced them. With the third round of PCC elections in May, he examines how the newly-elected PCCs and their Chief Constables can shape the future of policing against the changing political environment. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 11/3/2020 Analysis, Feature, UK PCC Elections «407840794080408140824083408440854086Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
