Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103270 total results. Showing results 82741 to 82760 «413441354136413741384139414041414142Next ›Last » Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts - plus a short guide outlining how serving police officers and staff can get access, free, to many of the articles listed through the National Police Library. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/9/2018 News Crisis at the top: Is the relationship between chief constable and PCC putting people off the top job? A recent National Police Chiefs Council report highlighted a severe shortage in applicants for the role of chief constable. One of the reasons cited was lack of job security given Police and Crime Commissioners' power to remove chiefs. Dr Mark Roycroft's book 'Police Chiefs in the UK: Politicians, HR Managers or Cops?' explores the complex relationship between PCCs and Chiefs. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/9/2018 Opinion ‘Looking Back, I Wouldn’t Join Up Again’: the Lived Experiences of Police Officers As Victims of Bias and Prejudice Perpetrated By Fellow Staff Within An English Police Force Women, ethnic minority and LGB police officers often experience prejudice, disadvantage and exclusion within police forces because of their perceived ‘otherness’ in a predominantly white, heterosexual, male organisation. In the context of an increasingly diverse service, the paper argues that the concept of intersectionality is important in order to understand the experiences of police officers who encounter bias and prejudice because of their multiple, intersecting identities. Drawing on data from qualitative interviews with 20 individuals based in an English police force, the paper examines their occupational experiences of bias, discrimination and exclusion perpetrated by their colleagues and supervisors. Utilising the ‘exit, voice and loyalty’ model, the paper analyses how police officers are affected by, and respond to these experiences. Taken together, these arguments lay the foundation for future work to further understand the experiences of police officers as victims of bias and prejudice due to their multiple, intersecting identities. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 25/9/2018 Research article Police Officers’ Assessment of NPF Reforms: Evidence From An Area Command in Ondo State This article analyses police officers’ assessment of the NPF reforms from an Area Command in Ondo State. Using a quantitative methodology, 305 police officers participated in the study. Results were presented and analysed using tables, percentages and means scores on a 5-point Likert scale. Findings reveal a low level of reform awareness among police officers. The article suggests that the NPF reforms were neither well-formulated nor adequately implemented. Even though the NPF reforms marginally but differentially improved the various aspects of police operational capacity, there was no much improvement in the overall police capacity and performance. The article shows that the performance and implementation of the NPF reforms in Ondo State have been constrained by corruption, inadequate funding, policy inconsistency, poor leadership and lack of reform communication to implementers, poor condition of service for officers, among others. The article concludes by attributing the poor performance of the NPF reforms to the unfavourable contexts in which the reforms were formulated and implemented. Police Practice and Research - Registration at source 25/9/2018 Research article A Simple Weighted Displacement Difference Test to Evaluate Place Based Crime Interventions This work proposes a new statistic, the weighted displacement difference (WDD), as a simple test to evaluate crime reductions subsequent to place based interventions taking into account trends in comparison areas and potential spatial displacement or diffusion of benefits. The motivation is to have both a simple statistic that can give an estimate of the effectiveness of a crime reducing intervention, while also providing a measure of the standard error one would expect when examining crime counts simply by chance. The proposed statistic can be calculated in a spreadsheet with counts of crime before and after the intervention in both treated and displacement areas given matched control locations for each. Crime Science Journal 25/9/2018 Research article Connected vehicle tech could alert drivers to accidents Ford and Vodafone are testing connected vehicle tech that can automatically warn other drivers of accidents ahead, clearing a path for emergency vehicles. Fleet News 25/9/2018 News Are police equipped to deal with sexual harassment, or part of the problem? The French government claims its new measures aimed at tackling sexual harassment herald "deep social change". But activists say the legislation fails to tackle entrenched social attitudes and institutionalised sexism head-on. France 24 25/9/2018 News Police refuse to confirm publisher’s arrest – despite his paper splashing on it A police force says it is unable to confirm that armed officers arrested a publisher over suspected “hate crimes” – despite his own newspaper covering it on its front page. Hold The Front Page 25/9/2018 News Police Scotland to present £298m IT plan to Scottish Police Authority Police Scotland will outline its business case for upgrading IT systems within the force Holyrood Magazine 25/9/2018 News Risk assessment: Assisting the police and CPS to better recognise and record hate crime HMICFRS' report on the police response to hate crime highlighted the progress Nottinghamshire Police has made in introducing a comprehensive hate crime risk assessment tool. Dr Loretta Trickett, Associate Professor at Nottingham Trent University, who has been at the forefront of this work, explains how this approach is assisting police and the CPS to better recognise and record hate incidents. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/9/2018 Analysis Police IT system ‘couldn’t run Pac‑Man’ Police officers are turning up to crime scenes with almost no detail about the potential dangers they face, the circumstances behind the incident or the condition of any victims. The Times - Subscription at source 25/9/2018 News Both the UK and EU need a deal on policing, but they need to be more flexible With the possibility of the UK leaving the EU without a deal becoming more likely, the Institute for Government recently published a timely report on the need for ongoing security co-operation. Maddy Thimont Jack of the IfG explains the report's findings. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/9/2018 Analysis, Feature Police Scotland has sometimes ‘not met expectations’, bosses tell MSPs Police Scotland has made savings of £330 million in its first five years - but bosses at the national force have accepted that “sometimes our service has not met expectations”. The Scotsman 25/9/2018 News ‘Policing services will disappear in some rural areas’ Lincolnshire Police is set to make drastic cuts to officer and staff numbers if it does not receive additional funding in 2019, its chief constable has warned. Police Professional 25/9/2018 News Fear for safety of our streets as SIXTY police officers, 53 PCSOs and 30 staff face axe at Lincolnshire Police The police have revealed which crimes could end up being less well-policed Lincolnshire Live 25/9/2018 News Police chief offers £200,000 to fund Telford council traffic wardens Police have offered to pay Telford & Wrekin Council £200,000 to put traffic wardens on the streets of the borough. Shropshire Star 25/9/2018 News Juror bias: How can we ensure fairer trials? Decision Scientist Lee Curley shares his latest research on how the processes involved in making a decision can lead to juror bias. So, how do we ensure defendants receive a fair trial? Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/9/2018 Analysis Radical roots: Countering the threat of violent extremism Recent events have highlighted the need to approach radicalisation not just as a security issue but also as a social and psychological one. Professor Babak Akhgar FBCS, Director of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research) at Sheffield Hallam University, explains how the MINDb4ACT project is addressing these concerns. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 25/9/2018 Analysis, Feature Who reports domestic violence to police? A review of the evidence AUSTRALIA: The police have an important role to play in the prevention and de-escalation of domestic violence. [pdf] Australian Institute of Criminology (Australia) 25/9/2018 Research article Scammers steal half-a-billion pounds from UK banking customers More than £500m was stolen from customers of British banks in the first half of 2018, figures have shown. BBC 25/9/2018 News «413441354136413741384139414041414142Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
