Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 105134 total results. Showing results 85041 to 85060 «424942504251425242534254425542564257Next ›Last » ‘A Wicked Problem’? Risk Assessment and Decision-Making When Licensing Possession and Use of Firearms in Greater London This paper analyses the risk assessment and decision-making used by a police force to assess the suitability of a person to own a firearm. The decision to grant a firearms licence has many characteristics of a ‘wicked problem’. Firearms Enquiries Officers (FEOs) in the police force concerned primarily use professional judgement to solve this problem, employing various forms of reasoning and heuristics, but potentially also prone to cognitive bias. We conclude with some observations on how training of FEOs and their supervisors in risk assessment and decision-making might be further developed. Police Journal - Registration at source 11/9/2018 Research article Police urge public to report insults that hurt feelings, but aren’t crimes A police force has urged people to report insults which make them feel bad even if they are not crimes. The Telegraph 11/9/2018 News Exposed…the scandal of police funding crisis The Home Office does not know what resources police need to protect the public, a damning report reveals today. Officials give cash to locally elected Police and Crime Commissioners who then decide spending priorities. Express 11/9/2018 News Home Office ignorant of strain on police after cuts, says watchdog National Audit Office says there are significant gaps in understanding of demand The Guardian 11/9/2018 News Calls for action over illegal traveller sites The government should be "hanging their heads in shame" over its efforts to tackle illegal gypsy and traveller sites, MPs have warned. Ministers are being urged to change their policy and "make deliberate trespass a criminal offence". BBC 11/9/2018 News Reality Check: Is police funding falling? The impact of funding on rising crime is a matter of hot debate, but what is certain is that police forces in England and Wales have less money than they did in 2010. BBC 11/9/2018 Analysis, Feature Police Chiefs and Their Political Bosses: Discussions in Ontario In this article, I review debates about relations between police chiefs and their governing authorities in Ontario over the last 70 years, beginning with the enactment of the Ontario Police Act in 1946, through its replacement by the Ontario Police Services Act in 1990, to the enactment of a new Police Services Act in 2018. I discuss how the respective roles and responsibilities of municipal and regional police chiefs and their police governing authorities, and the relationships between them, have evolved and changed over this period. I also discuss comparable developments in the relations between commissioners of the Ontario Provincial Police and provincial ministers responsible for policing in the province during the same period. The arguments and justifications that have been advanced for these developments by politicians, commissions of inquiry, police scholars, and representative bodies of police chiefs and police governing authorities, as well as in key court decisions, are reviewed, and their implications for the concept of ‘police independence’ are discussed. I conclude that although that concept has been the subject of much critique during these years, it so far remains intact as the key principle underlying police governance and accountability in Ontario. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 11/9/2018 Research article Police funding: Ministers ‘unaware of cuts impact’ Ministers do not know the impact that funding cuts have had on police forces, the UK's public spending watchdog says. BBC 11/9/2018 News Treading the Front-Line: Tartanisation and Police–academic Partnerships Recognised as an international leader in the development of police-academic collaborations, the Scottish Institute of Police Research has had a key role in contributing to evidence-based approaches in policing, supporting a strategic approach to innovation, as well as, contributing to education, professional development, and organisational learning. The aim of this article is to examine the particular relevance of this partnership in shaping both the recent professionalisation and educational agenda of policing in Scotland. It will critically explore these collaborative efforts, particularly in relation to the development of higher educational routes into the service and suggest that while there are benefits to this partnership approach, a co-operative rather than collaborative style emerged in this specific case study. The potential reasons for this co-operative approach as well as the implications for the development of Higher Education routes for police officers in Scotland will be discussed. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 11/9/2018 Research article 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 11/9/2018 News ‘Home Office out of touch about the needs of policing’ Today’s damning report from the National Audit Office reinforces what the Police Federation has been saying for some time. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 11/9/2018 News Report on Protected Disclosures made directly to the Minister for Justice and Equality by workers, or former workers of, An Garda SÃochána 2017 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Department of Justice and Equality’s policy in relation to dealing with protected disclosures is set out in its policy document "Protected Disclosures in the Workplace". [pdf] Department of Justice and Equality (Ireland) 11/9/2018 Report Policing in crisis: Forces are ‘struggling’ to keep the public safe as funding cuts bite, damning report warns Police forces are now ‘struggling’ to keep the public safe following funding cuts and an upsurge in crime. Mail Online 11/9/2018 News Police force calls for people to report hate ‘incidents’ including ‘offensive or insulting comments’ even if they are not criminal Police in South Yorkshire have come under fire from the public for advising people to report 'non hate crimes' which have 'insulted' them. Mail Online 11/9/2018 News Officers denied access to paedophile messages A paedophile is feared to have abused several more teenage boys after police were denied potential evidence by a tech company, a judge has said. The Times - Subscription at source 11/9/2018 News Only 9% of crimes result in charges after funding cut Police are struggling to deliver an effective service after big cuts in government funding and a fall of more than 20,000 officers over the past eight years, a spending watchdog has said. The Times - Subscription at source 11/9/2018 News Financial sustainability of police forces in England and Wales 2018 This report follows up our 2015 report. It examines the Department’s progress in managing a clear assurance and oversight system that: a) is effective in identifying risk and financial pressure; b) uses information on the demand for and cost of police services to inform its funding allocations; and c) supports forces to be financially sustainable by facilitating transformation and enabling forces to make savings. National Audit Office (NAO) 11/9/2018 Report APCC welcomes Victim Strategy and Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme review Responding to the publication of the Government’s Victims Strategy, APCC Victims Lead, Dame Vera Baird PCC, said: Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) 10/9/2018 News Forces plan for civil disorder after no-deal Brexit Police chiefs could be forced to call on the military to cope with widespread civil disorder at the country’s borders in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to a leaked report. Police Professional 10/9/2018 News Clamour growing over policing fears – but ‘it is falling on deaf ears’ John Apter, chair of the Police Federation, has echoed the hard-hitting messages of the Superintendents’ Association and asks ‘why is no-one listening?’ Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 10/9/2018 News «424942504251425242534254425542564257Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
