Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103270 total results. Showing results 83041 to 83060 «414941504151415241534154415541564157Next ›Last » Half of the 537 complaints about Dorset Police are finalised by ‘less formal local resolution process’ Dorset Police recorded 537 complaints last year - an increase of six per cent on 2016/17. The figures were released by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) yesterday. The organisation says there are wide discrepancies nationally in the way forces handle complaints. Daily Echo (Southern) 14/9/2018 News North Yorkshire Police complaints down – but force takes longer to deal with them Police in North Yorkshire received fewer complaints last year, but took 80 per cent longer than the national average to respond to them. The Press (York) 14/9/2018 News This is the number of complaints being made against West Midlands Police New figures also reveal a quarter of complaints against the force were dealt with by “local resolution”. The number of complaints against West Midlands Police has fallen for a second year in a row - with the force now having one of the lowest complaint rates in the country. Birmingham Live 14/9/2018 News Police Use of Force: An Examination of the Minority Threat Perspective The minority threat perspective suggests that the criminal justice system may be one mechanism through which the majority group (i.e. Whites) maintains control of culturally dissimilar minority groups. Although numerous studies have examined the relationship between minority representation and various policing outcomes, few have extended this research to police use of force in the context of stop-and-frisk practices. Using stop, question, and frisk data from the New York Police Department, this study examines (1) whether racial and ethnic composition influences police use of force, and (2) whether an individual’s race/ethnicity interacts with the racial/ethnic composition of a police precinct to produce disparities in police use of force. The results provide partial support for the minority threat perspective. Criminal Justice Studies - Registration at source 14/9/2018 Research article Bill Carmichael: No offence South Yorkshire Police, but why not fight real crime? South Yorkshire must be a wonderful place – no 11-year-old girls gang raped and trafficked into prostitution, no murders or shootings, no stabbings or muggings or theft, no cars stolen, no sign of any drug dealing and not a single burglary in the entire county. It is a crime-free paradise on Earth. Well, that’s the only possible explanation for the extraordinary decision by South Yorkshire Police this week to launch a campaign to encourage citizens to report “non-crime hate incidents”. The Yorkshire Post 14/9/2018 Feature, Opinion Andrew McKie: When the police need to be subject to a rude awakening Offence has several related definitions and so, for that matter, does police. That’s not usually very important because a combination of context and common sense will tend to make it clear which use is intended. It would be problematic only if somebody were incapable of understanding everyday speech or the basics of the law. Even that probably wouldn’t matter unless it were some body – such as a police force – given particular powers on the grounds that it understood such basic distinctions. The Herald (Scotland) 14/9/2018 Feature, Opinion Mapping Repeated Interviews The present study introduces an adaptation of the Griffiths Question Map (GQM; Griffiths and Milne 2006) which extends the chronological, visual map of question types used in an investigative interview to include child interviewee’s responses (through the addition of the Interview Answer Grid, IAG). Furthermore, it provides a rare evaluation of repeated interviews with children. From a sample of transcripts of Scottish repeated interviews with child victims, two ‘good’ and two ‘poor’ first interviews were chosen based on interviewer question types. First and second investigative interviews of these four children were mapped using the GQM and IAG in order to examine across the two interviews the similarity of interviewer and interviewee behaviours and the consistency and investigative-relevance of information provided. Both ‘good’ and ‘poor’ interviews were found to include practices discouraged by interviewing guidelines, which would not have been identified by examining question proportions alone. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 14/9/2018 Research article Mapping Repeated Interviews The present study introduces an adaptation of the Griffiths Question Map (GQM; Griffiths and Milne 2006) which extends the chronological, visual map of question types used in an investigative interview to include child interviewee’s responses (through the addition of the Interview Answer Grid, IAG). Furthermore, it provides a rare evaluation of repeated interviews with children. From a sample of transcripts of Scottish repeated interviews with child victims, two ‘good’ and two ‘poor’ first interviews were chosen based on interviewer question types. First and second investigative interviews of these four children were mapped using the GQM and IAG in order to examine across the two interviews the similarity of interviewer and interviewee behaviours and the consistency and investigative-relevance of information provided. Both ‘good’ and ‘poor’ interviews were found to include practices discouraged by interviewing guidelines, which would not have been identified by examining question proportions alone. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - Registration at source 14/9/2018 Research article Procedural Justice Perceptions, Legitimacy Beliefs, and Compliance With the Law: A Meta-Analysis The purpose of this study was to compare procedural justice and legitimacy as correlates and predictors of compliance with the law. A literature review produced 64 studies, 95 samples, and 196 effect sizes from studies published or conducted sometime between 1990 and February 2018 in which procedural justice was correlated with legitimacy and/or compliance, or legitimacy was correlated with compliance. Fifty samples included all 3 correlations, 3 samples included 2 correlations, and the remaining 42 samples included a single correlation. Two random effects meta-analyses were performed. The current findings suggest that legitimacy beliefs are instrumental in promoting compliance with the law and that while procedural justice perceptions also appear to predict compliance, the effect was relatively weak in this meta-analysis and could not be reliably established in longitudinal datasets. Journal of Experimental Criminology - Registration at source 14/9/2018 Research article Policing the Police Effective democratic oversight has never been more vital, but too few police and crime commissioners are providing it The Times - Subscription at source 14/9/2018 Feature, Opinion Knife crime hits seven year high as police admit shock at the ‘frenzied nature’ of many attacks on Britain’s streets Knife crime has surged to a seven-year high amid police fears of an epidemic of violence on the streets. Mail Online 14/9/2018 News More terror suspects were white than Asian last year – for the first time since 7/7 attacks on London, Home Office figures show The number of white terror suspects being arrested is higher than those who are Asian for the first time since the July 7 bombings in 2005. Mail Online 14/9/2018 News Police and Crime Commissioners are ‘bleeding hopeless’ with ‘lousy judgement’ says report compiled by top-ranked officers Elected police and crime commissioners have been branded 'bleeding hopeless' and 'not that bright' by former police officials. Mail Online 14/9/2018 News Shoplifters and a law that doesn’t deter them Kelsey was just 14 years old when she was introduced to drugs and taught how to steal from shops by an older man in order to pay for them. She is now 22 and has served seven prison sentences for shoplifting. BBC 14/9/2018 Analysis, Feature Police wait 18 months for evidence from social media firms Detectives at Britain’s biggest police force are waiting up to 18 months to receive evidence from social media companies, it has emerged. The Times - Subscription at source 14/9/2018 News Elected police chiefs are not that bright, say officers Elected police and crime commissioners are described as “bleeding hopeless”, “not that bright”, abusive and politically driven in a report that exposes the crisis at the top of policing. The Times - Subscription at source 14/9/2018 News NI police chief: We will learn from mistakes made in alleged abuse victim’s case Northern Ireland’s police chief George Hamilton has commended an alleged sex abuse victim and vowed to learn from mistakes made in her case. Mairia Cahill, a grand-niece of prominent Belfast republican Joe Cahill, claimed she was sexually abused as a 16-year-old by alleged IRA member Martin Morris. Aol 13/9/2018 News Our prison crisis worsens Independent researcher and consultant Russell Webster says a formal letter from Peter Clarke sets out comprehensive failings. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 13/9/2018 Feature, Opinion Police failures in investigation of child abuse allegations An investigation by the Police Ombudsman’s Office of a complaint about how the PSNI handled reports of alleged child abuse has found that police failed those who were said to have been abused. The investigation also found that the PSNI’s predecessor, the RUC, had information about the alleged abuse ten years earlier but did not investigate it. Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland 13/9/2018 News Máiría Cahill: PSNI failed women over IRA sex abuse claims The police failed three women who said they were were sexually abused by a senior member of the IRA when they were teenagers, according to a report. BBC 13/9/2018 News «414941504151415241534154415541564157Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
