Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100269 total results. Showing results 8761 to 8780 «435436437438439440441442443Next ›Last » NSW police officer arrested over alleged possession of child abuse material in Sydney’s southwest AUSTRALIA: A NSW police officer has been “suspended with pay” after he was allegedly found possessing child abuse material in Sydney’s southwest. Reports the male officer allegedly had possession of abuse material, which was said to involve children, were made to the Professional Standards Command, who began an investigation in June 2024. 7 News (Australia) 17/9/2024 News Strategic framework launched to end ‘plague’ of VAWG in Northern Ireland The Northern Ireland Executive has launched a strategic framework to end “the plague” of violence against women and girls (VAWG). Police Professional 17/9/2024 News Australian Federal Police raids ‘dismantle’ crime syndicate, see alleged creator of app for criminal underworld arrested and charged AUSTRALIA: An Australian man is alleged to have created an encrypted platform designed for the use of the criminal underworld. Italian, Korean and Middle Eastern organised crime groups are said to have used the platform. ABC News (Australia) 17/9/2024 News Mandated overtime is adding to officer stress and burn out committee told 1,110 Police Scotland officers were signed off work over the last financial year due to stress, depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 17/9/2024 News Border command to get extra £75m for covert technology and 100 NCA investigators The government has also announced a 50 per cent increase in the number of British officers stationed at Europol. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 17/9/2024 News Regulations covering officers’ private lives need to be updated says Chief HMIC Warning that officers are “not being supported in their decision making” on impartiality under the current system. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 17/9/2024 News ‘Corrupt’ former officer jailed for misconduct in public office A former Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officer who accessed police records and passed on sensitive information, stole items from a member of the public, and used deceased people’s bank details to purchase “hundreds of pounds worth of electronic goods”, has been jailed for 40 months. Police Professional 17/9/2024 News Lancashire ‘simply did not know’ what to do with officer suffering from PTSD Officer Ms L Darby was employed from March 2003, was absent from work from September 2010 to June 2017 due to a career break, and took ill-health early retirement in August 2022. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 17/9/2024 News Cambs OPCC brought in ‘twice as much’ as it cost to run last year PCC Darryl Preston has given a wide-ranging interview to Chris Mann from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 17/9/2024 News Police officer charged with sexual assault A police officer has been charged with two counts of sexual assault in connection with two incidents in Cardiff. BBC 17/9/2024 News Optimizing interview techniques for children: A train-the-trainer approach CANADA: Interviewing children and vulnerable witnesses is a highly specialized skill. It requires intensive foundational training and refresher activities to maintain interview quality (Brubacher et al., 2020; Lamb, 2016). Blue Line (Canada) 17/9/2024 Feature Law enforcement and martial arts: Key factors to consider before you train CANADA: One of the most common questions I hear from in-service officers, police applicants and security guards is, “What are the best martial arts to know for this job?” Blue Line (Canada) 17/9/2024 Feature Garda deploy unmarked HGV to target distracted driving REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí has deployed an unmarked HGV in a bid to detect those driving while distracted. Breaking News (Republic of Ireland) 17/9/2024 News RCMP launches webpage to track progress on Mass Casualty Commission recommendations CANADA: Today, the RCMP launched a new webpage to track progress on Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) recommendations, a transparent and accessible way to follow the RCMP's progress on advancing recommendations from the MCC Final Report. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 17/9/2024 News Major Irish drug trafficking network hit by garda operation targeting encrypted phones REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The phone network was used by criminal networks to order murders, drug shipments and money laundering. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 17/9/2024 News Unmarked garda lorry is patrolling Ireland’s roads to catch drivers on phones REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: An unmarked Garda lorry is patrolling Ireland’s roads to catch drivers who use their phones or fail to wear their seatbelts while behind the wheel. The Irish Post (Republic of Ireland) 17/9/2024 News New ‘The Police Student’ series: Understanding the Criminal Justice System We are pleased to announce the launch of the latest series of The Police Student, supporting degree-entry recruits to the police service. This new series looks at the way that our criminal justice system works, why it works the way that it does, and why that matters for student police officers. Policing Insight 17/9/2024 Feature Understanding the Criminal Justice System: Introduction In the first in a new chapter in The Police Student series, Policing Insight Academic Editor Dr Carina O'Reilly sets out the key issues for this chapter – how our criminal justice system works, why it works the way that it does, is it fulfilling its purposes, and why that matters for student police officers. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 17/9/2024 Feature Policing rape and serious sexual offences: officers’ insights on police specialism Purpose: Several studies have been conducted to understand why the conviction rate for rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO) remains so low. Increasing pressure and criticism have led to questioning why improvements in RASSO investigations are proving ineffective. The purpose of this study was to capture police officers’ perspective of police specialism while investigating RASSO. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 82 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Data collection spanned across two years, from October 2021 until May 2023, and included police officers from four police forces in England and Wales. Template analysis was used to identify recurrent patterns around police specialism for RASSO. Findings: Most officers viewed specialism as a tool to improve how police forces prevent and tackle RASSO. In spite of this, the lack of prioritisation of specialist training, roles and units specifically for this crime type has hindered the development of evidence-based practice in policing. The impact on well-being, resources, organisational support and role identity has been explored. Originality/value: This is the first qualitative study, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, to look at officers’ insights on police specialism for RASSO in England and Wales. Officers discussed day-to-day challenges associated with conducting RASSO investigations while reflecting on potential advantages related to dedicated specialist units and/or specialist roles. Journal of Criminal Psychology 17/9/2024 Research article Simulation to Forecast Crime Patterns: Comparing Space Syntax and Agent-Based Models in Exploring Pedestrian Movement and Visibility Space Syntax comprises a set of techniques that emphasize both material and immaterial characteristics of urban space. However, its inherent lack of a time component and land-use variables limits its effectiveness in investigating crime dynamics at the micro-urban scale. On the other hand, ABMs are simulations of interacting agents capable of perceiving their environment, influencing each other, and making autonomous decisions without central control, whose behaviour depends on time and environmental components. Nonetheless, ABMs face challenges in terms of the required amount of input data and model transparency, as well as regards the matter of validation. Despite being based on different modelling approaches – embodying the top-down versus bottom-up contraposition – both Space Syntax and ABMs can qualitatively and quantitatively analyse crucial components for crime analysis, such as flows, copresence, and visibility, deemed key aspects underlying the crime opportunity concept. This paper establishes a bridge between Space Syntax and ABM through the study of crime in urban settings, scrutinising the fundamental metrics that can significantly contribute to the identification of high-risk locations—specifically, pedestrian flow and visibility. It presents two new models, respectively using Space Syntax methods and ABM, applied to two separate case studies in the historic city centre of Pisa, Italy. It has three objectives: first, to compare the diverse outcomes the distinct approaches provide in terms of people flow and visibility estimation in the built environment; second, to discuss their potential in forecasting risky areas; and, lastly, to propose an integration between Space Syntax metrics for movement within ABMs as parameters to guide agents' movement. In essence, this study proposes a methodology oriented towards creating a model capable of simulating the relations between people's behaviour, urban configuration, environmental conditions, and crime distribution, thereby representing a useful decision-support tool for crime prevention purposes and for broadly exploring and modelling pedestrian behaviour. CRIMRXIV 17/9/2024 Research article «435436437438439440441442443Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
