Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103232 total results. Showing results 85981 to 86000 «429642974298429943004301430243034304Next ›Last » £120m fund to raise school standards used to recruit extra police A flagship £120 million Scottish Government initiative aimed at raising standards in schools is being used to employ campus police officers, MSPs have been told. The Scotsman 10/5/2018 News It’s time to get real about gang violence in London Rod Liddle: Hey, Londoners — been stabbed or shot yet this week? Just thought I’d check as the place seems to resemble, in its violence, downtown Mogadishu right now — and indeed is graced with many of the same kinds of people. That’s probably why you haven’t been stabbed or shot yet: the murdering has been committed exclusively, so far as I can tell, within the minority ethnic communities by young men who are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. So you’re safe for a while, until they’ve all been used up and the stabby shooty young men get around to you. The Spectator 10/5/2018 Feature, Opinion Traffic Enforcement Through the Lens of Race: A Sequential Analysis of Post-Stop Outcomes in San Diego, California Research has shown that Black and Hispanic drivers are subject to disproportionate stop and post-stop outcomes compared with White drivers. Yet scholars’ understanding of how and why such disparities persist remains underdeveloped. To address this shortcoming, this article applies a sequential approach to the analysis of traffic stop data generated by San Diego Police Department officers in 2014 and 2015. Results show that despite being subject to higher rates of discretionary and nondiscretionary searches, Black drivers were less likely to be found with contraband than matched Whites and were more than twice as likely to be subjected to a field interview where no citation is issued or arrest made. Black drivers were also more likely to face any type of search, as well as high-discretion consent searches, that end in neither citation nor arrest. The article concludes with a discussion of the findings and a series of recommendations. Criminal Justice Policy Review - Registration at source 10/5/2018 Research article The Effect of Various Police Enforcement Actions on Violent Crime: Evidence From A Saturation Foot-Patrol Intervention The current study tests the crime prevention effect of different police actions conducted during a foot-patrol saturation initiative in Newark, New Jersey. Police actions were categorized into two typologies: enforcement actions (i.e., arrests, quality of life summonses and field interrogations) and guardian actions (i.e., business checks, citizen contacts, bus checks, and taxi inspections). Logistic regression models tested the effect of enforcement and guardian actions on crime during daily (i.e., 24-hr) periods as well as the intervention’s operational (6:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m.) and non-operational (2:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.) periods. Analyses were conducted twice, once for the Operation Impact target area and once for a surrounding catchment zone (to measure spatial displacement). Findings suggest that guardian actions had a greater crime prevention effect than enforcement actions on crime occurrence. Policy implications of the findings are discussed. Criminal Justice Policy Review - Registration at source 10/5/2018 Research article Discretion and Diversion in Albany’s Lead Program In early 2016, Albany police launched its law-enforcement-assisted diversion (LEAD) program, providing for discretionary pre-booking diversion for low-level offenders whose offending was driven by drug addiction, mental illness, homelessness, or poverty. We examine the exercise of officers’ discretion in making LEAD diversions by analysing eligible incidents to estimate the effects of offense-, suspect-, and officer-related variables on discretionary decisions, and by analysing semi-structured interviews with officers. We find that in the first year of LEAD, diversions were few in number, and the individuals diverted to LEAD were not generally people with a high level of previous justice involvement. Officers’ attitudes toward diversion and toward LEAD were mixed, and those attitudes influenced the exercise of their discretion. Overall, we find evidence of the same kinds of challenges that have confronted the implementation of new programs in many police agencies, particularly challenges to “pluralised” drug control. Criminal Justice Policy Review - Registration at source 10/5/2018 Research article Writing Alone Or Together: Police Officers’ Collaborative Reports of An Incident After witnessing an incident, police officers may write their report collaboratively. We examined how collaboration influences the amount and accuracy of information in police reports. Eighty-six police officers participated, in pairs, in a live training scenario. Officers wrote a report about the incident, either with their partner or individually. Reports by two officers working together (collaborative performance) contained less information than reports by two officers working individually (nominal performance), with no difference in accuracy. After the first report, officers who had worked individually wrote a collaborative report. Police officers who recorded their own memories prior to collaboration included less incorrect information in the collaborative report than police officers who wrote a collaborative report immediately after the incident. Finally, content-focused retrieval strategies (acknowledge, repeat, rephrase, elaborate) during the officers’ discussion positively predicted the amount of information in collaborative reports. Practical recommendations for the police and suggestions for further research are provided. Criminal Justice and Behaviour 10/5/2018 Research article UK and Russian police working well on World Cup trouble risks, MPs told Russian and UK police are cooperating well on plans to protect supporters travelling to the World Cup, the Foreign Office has said, despite the collapse in relations between the two countries following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury in March. The Guardian 10/5/2018 News MSP calls on police to reopen remote stations, including four in the north Four remote police stations earmarked to be sold should be returned to their former use, an MSP has urged. The Press and Journal 10/5/2018 News Police Scotland says it has learned from call handling blunders A senior Police Scotland officer has admitted shortcomings in the force’s response procedures. The National 10/5/2018 News ‘Loss of wisdom’ amid chief constable exodus At least six forces will soon be competing for the same talent Police Oracle - Subscription at source 10/5/2018 News Undercover police whistleblower joins boycott of inquiry Peter Francis boycotts public inquiry into undercover policing over judge’s decision to give anonymity to spies The Guardian 10/5/2018 News Prosecutions of children possessing cannabis plummet Police are accused of going soft on the Class B drug amid fears it is being decriminalised 'by the back door' Mail Online 10/5/2018 News Witness Protection Program – Annual report: 2017-2018 CANADA: This is the twenty second annual report on the federal Witness Protection Program (WPP, or Program), as required by section 16 of the Witness Protection Program Act (WPPA or Act). Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 10/5/2018 Report Metropolitan Police picks Northgate for MiPS London service to use company’s Connect technology to pull together information strands for policing UKAuthority.com 9/5/2018 News Home Office to continue ‘value for money’ push as procurement costs differ by up to 700 per cent Wide variations remain in the amount forces are spending on goods and services despite the push for greater efficiency. Police Professional - Subscription at source 9/5/2018 News Spiralling knife crime ‘more likely to happen in the shires than the cities’ The Home Secretary has admitted no simple formulas exist to solve the startling explosion of serious violent crime sweeping across the UK from regional capitals, through county towns to the countryside beyond. Police Professional - Subscription at source 9/5/2018 News On the books: The case for mandatory registration of private landlords Not being able to trace the identity of a private landlord can have real consequences for police - and for local residents. Ron Hogg, PCC for Durham, explains why he is backing a Private Member's Bill to make mandatory the registration of private landlords. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 9/5/2018 Opinion New police spending figures released The Home Office published the latest statistics in its ‘basket of goods’ series. BT.com 9/5/2018 News PM told there are not enough police to deal with soaring crime in North East Lincolnshire Grimsby MP Melanie Onn has told Prime Minister Theresa May that Humberside Police funding cuts have led to an increase in crime Grimsby Live 9/5/2018 News Ban police gang lists – they are racist and unjust Police are labelling young men and boys – almost exclusively black – as potential gang members, based on little or no evidence The Guardian 9/5/2018 Feature, Opinion «429642974298429943004301430243034304Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
