Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100282 total results. Showing results 8581 to 8600 «426427428429430431432433434Next ›Last » Commissioner Webb pushes to sack former top cop’s nephew AUSTRALIA: Top cop Karen Webb has recommended the nephew of her predecessor Mick Fuller be sacked from the force — even though he was found not guilty of showing a sex video to colleagues. The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 News ‘Burnout service’: Qld cops paid $72m in overtime in just seven months AUSTRALIA: Government documents have revealed taxpayers forked out a whopping $72m for police overtime in just seven months, a $11m jump compared to the same period last year. The Courier Mail (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 News Size isn’t everything: Understanding the relationship between police workforce and crime problems If and how policing affects crime has long been studied. On the relationship between police force size and crime, different authors come to different conclusions. This study examines the relationship between police resourcing, including workforce size, structure and stability over time using data for 42 police forces in the UK over a 13-year period. We construct two novel panel datasets. The first comprises measures of police workforce Size, Structure and Stability. The second provides measures of both crime frequency and crime severity. Issues of endogeneity make the modelling of the police-crime association complicated. Consequently, we analyse the data using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model which is capable of forecasting a temporal sequence of the interdependencies between police-crime relationships. Changes in total police personnel play an important role in reducing both crime frequency and severity, but the findings are more nuanced than this. Results highlight that the structure and stability of police organisations are important although these impacts are not always the same for crime volume and crime severity. We find that increases in frontline (non-sworn) support staff are associated with reductions in crime, while turnover rates of police staff are associated with increases in crime. In contrast, changes to the number of sworn police officers do not appear to be a good predictor of crime volume. The findings suggest that investment in frontline support staff and the development of strategies to retain skills and knowledge by reducing staff turnover may be efficient approaches for Police Forces to maximise the impact on crime of their workforce in resource-pressed policing settings. While previous research has found that police force size has a limited effect on crime, our findings indicate that more nuanced measurements of police resourcing are necessary to understand how police impact upon crime risk. The idea of police forces using basic officer-to-population ratios to make staffing decisions appears outdated and over-simplistic. Journal of Criminal Justice 21/9/2024 Research article Rural crime is a ‘huge priority’ for police in NI – PSNI Rural crime is a “huge priority” for police, according to the rural crime lead for the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). But according to Superintendent Johnston McDowell this type of crime is a “much wider issue” than simply plant theft, livestock theft, cold-calling and burglaries. AgriLand 21/9/2024 News Five reasons why police oversight and accountability are important As Thames Valley Police’s decision to expand its public scrutiny panels to include oversight of officers’ use of force video footage brings the issue of scrutiny back into the media, Montell Neufville, police ethics advisor and Chair of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Police Scrutiny Panel overseeing road police and armed police across the three counties, sets out five key reasons why he believes oversight and accountability are crucial to effective policing. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 Analysis, Feature, Opinion Officer who put Taser to the neck of boy during stop and search given final written warning An officer who held a Taser to the neck of a 16-year-old black boy during a stop and search in southeast London has been given a final written warning. Police Professional 20/9/2024 News Police watchdog sorry over Hillsborough letters The police watchdog has apologised for what have been described as "abhorrent, degrading and cruel" letters it sent to people affected by the Hillsborough disaster. BBC 20/9/2024 News New eyes in the sky on the way for Durham cops and other police services CANADA: The Ontario government will spend $134M on five state-of-the-art helicopters for cops in Durham, Peel and Halton and the OPP Toronto Sun (Canada) 20/9/2024 News Police ‘scared’ to tell recruits what to do over fears of misconduct claims, former detective says Jackie Malton, the real life Prime Suspect detective, has been told by an officer that policing has become ‘cannibalistic’ The Telegraph - Subscription at source 20/9/2024 News Rape reported every hour in London A rape offence is reported every hour in London, according to data obtained by the BBC. More than 8,800 rape incidents were reported to the Metropolitan Police in 2023 - an average of 24 a day. BBC 20/9/2024 News Sudbury announces new chief of police CANADA: Sara Cunningham, who had been serving as deputy chief, has been selected as the new chief of police in Greater Sudbury. Cunningham replaces Paul Pederson, who left in June to become the executive director of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. CTV News (Canada) 20/9/2024 News Jamar Powell: Met Police officer who put Taser to Black teenager’s neck during stop given final warning Police watchdog says ‘no need’ for Taser to be placed on boy’s neck to handcuff him when he was already kneeling on road The Standard 20/9/2024 News Prince Albert police ask residents to voluntarily register home security cameras to help reduce crime CANADA: The Prince Albert Police Service is asking for the public's help reducing crime. It hopes to do this by having residents voluntarily register their outward-facing security cameras with police. The program is called the Safe Neighbourhood Camera Registry. It's a secure web system that allows residents and businesses to register that they have security cameras and would be willing to share imagery should a crime happen in view of the camera. Prince Albert police say they believe this will give them quicker access to potential evidence. CBC News (Canada) 20/9/2024 News Officer used police database to snoop on friends, colleagues NEW ZEALAND: An officer used the police database like a “social media application” to snoop on his partner, family members, friends, neighbours, people he saw on social media, other police officers and gang members he had no reason to be investigating. 1 News (New Zealand) 20/9/2024 News Garda reps criticise Drew Harris after he admits standing down Public Order Unit at Coolock was wrong REPUBLC OF IRELAND: Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has said prosecutions may result from footage obtained by RTÉ Investigates of the Coolock anti-immigration riots in July, and broadcast on Thursday night. However, he criticised the fact that that footage had only emerged eight weeks after a Garda appeal for such evidence. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) - Subscription at source 20/9/2024 News ‘Previously, you couldn’t join if you weren’t Irish’: Nine new garda graduates born outside the State REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A drone flew overhead and cameras clicked busily as 80 male and 28 female garda graduates marched in uniform through the square in Templemore garda training college as they were attested as sworn gardaí. Of those, nine were born outside the State, with new graduates from Slovakia, Poland, Romania, India, Lithuania and Ethiopia. One graduate was a former Garda reserve. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 20/9/2024 News MPS detectives prevent £35m worth of cocaine entering the UK A group of prolific drug dealers have been jailed after a successful investigation by Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers disrupted the sale of tens of millions of pounds worth of drugs across London and others parts of the UK. Police Professional 20/9/2024 News Chief constable meets retail delegates to discuss ‘significant’ issues of business crime The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable met local business and retail leaders on Friday (September 20) to discuss the “significant criminal challenges” facing the sector. Police Professional 20/9/2024 News Domestic abuse is ‘Cinderella’ of crimes, safeguarding minister says Jess Phillips said she wants to do more than give domestic abuse victims ‘a good call’, and instead prevent domestic abuse from happening at all. The Independent 20/9/2024 News Domestic abuse specialists in 999 control rooms to help victims, Yvette Cooper announces Home Secretary said ‘Raneem’s Law’, named after Raneem Oudeh who was murdered by her ex-partner, marks the start of plans to halve violence against women and girls in a decade The Independent 20/9/2024 News «426427428429430431432433434Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
