Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115133 total results. Showing results 8941 to 8960 «444445446447448449450451452Next ›Last » Sacked Met officer jailed for 16 years for rapes A former Metropolitan Police constable has been jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of rape, coercive and controlling behaviour, voyeurism and stalking, relating to three women. BBC 23/9/2025 News Lawsuit alleges German police misusing facial recognition images for system tests GERMANY: An IT security professional in Germany is suing the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD) alleging his face biometrics have been misused and transferred illegally. BiometricUpdate.com 23/9/2025 News Plural Policing and Access to Justice in Pacific Small Island Developing States: A Tuvaluan Case Study Small Island Developing States (SIDS) present unique challenges and opportunities for law enforcement. Characteristics such as strong communal ties, social and cultural norms, limited state visibility, and strained resources impact the interpretation and application of state laws. At the same time, local legitimacy is often found in community-oriented approaches to policing and tailored law enforcement responses through parallel policing systems. While most research on plural policing in the Pacific SIDS has considered the larger Pacific Island countries in Melanesia, this paper focuses on how plural systems of law-and-order maintenance impact policing in Tuvalu, a microstate in Polynesia. Key stakeholders (N = 23) including religious leaders, police officers and leaders, and community leaders from Tuvalu participated in semi-structured interviews. The findings highlight the significance of informal networks in influencing policing decisions. This influence has implications for action on the access to justice agenda, particularly concerning the use of police authority, equitable law enforcement practices, accountability, and fairness. The findings contribute to more inclusive discussions of plural policing and its nuanced impacts on access to justice in the Pacific SIDS. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23/9/2025 Research article Cross-comparison of barefoot and sock-clad footprint evidence using an enhanced Siamese network approach Traditional barefoot impression examination faces significant limitations in comparing impressions with sock-clad impressions. This paper presents the first cross-comparison study of barefoot and sock-clad impressions in challenging mixed datasets. We propose an enhanced Siamese network approach for the cross-comparison of barefoot and sock-clad impression evidence. Our methodology employs a dual-branch feature extraction framework based on ResNet34, enhanced with a channel-level generalized mean (GeM) pooling strategy and metric learning through hard sample mining. Research utilized 800 right footprint samples from 800 participants, augmented with 800 left footprint samples generated through mirror transformation, totaling 1600 samples for evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves 63.4% Top-1 accuracy and 90.9% Top-10 accuracy in challenging mixed retrieval environments. The ResNet34 architecture with improved GeM pooling showed superior performance compared to alternative network architectures and pooling strategies. This research addresses critical challenges in the comparison of sock-clad impressions to barefoot impressions, particularly for cases where perpetrators wear socks to minimize distinctive impression evidence and sounds in burglary, homicide, and other crimes, providing a more objective, quantifiable automatic comparison method for barefoot and sock-clad impression identification with substantial practical value for criminal investigations. Journal of Forensic Sciences 23/9/2025 Research article Customs, Police operation disrupts global drug trafficking ring NEW ZEALAND: Customs and New Zealand Police have disrupted a transnational drug trafficking syndicate suspected of coordinating illegal drug shipments globally. The joint operation saw United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Central Narcotics Bureau of Singapore (CNB), Narcotics Control Bureau of Brunei Darussalam (NCB), the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Border Force (ABF) and New Zealand authorities share intelligence. Inside Government (New Zealand) 23/9/2025 News ‘Losing a fair few’: shortage of police officers on the frontline revealed AUSTRALIA: Local police are running at just 75 per cent capacity with dozens of officers off the beat injured, on sick leave or unable to fill their postings in places like Tamworth. The Northern Daily Leader (Australia) - Subscription at source 23/9/2025 News Road policing officer numbers drop by more than a fifth to decade-low England and Wales saw the figure drop from 5,005 road policing officers at the end of March 2015, to its current number of 3,889 working in traffic units by March this year. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/9/2025 News Just over 60 percent pass rate in this year’s NIE Suffolk Constabulary (91.7 percent), British Transport Police (90 percent) and Essex Police (89.5 percent) made up the top five. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/9/2025 News PC denies sexual assault of teenage girl A West Yorkshire Police officer has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl. BBC 23/9/2025 News Merseyside Police join Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams to inspire young cricketers In last night's episode, Merseyside Police officers – including Deputy Chief Constable Chris Green – took to the pitch at Firwood Bootle Cricket Club to face off against a group of young people in a friendly, but competitive, cricket match. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/9/2025 News Sacked Met officer jailed for 16 years for rapes A former Metropolitan Police constable has been jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of rape, coercive and controlling behaviour, voyeurism and stalking, relating to three women. BBC 23/9/2025 News Southport response showed ‘bad meeting good’, detective tells inquiry The response to the Southport attack was an example of “bad meeting good”, a detective told the public inquiry as he praised members of the public who stepped in to help. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/9/2025 News Fredericton Police issue public alert after significant spike in drug overdoses CANADA: The Fredericton Police Force has issued an urgent public alert after a significant increase in drug overdose incidents in the city. Blue Line (Canada) 23/9/2025 News Officer ‘used OnlyFans to offer sexual content’ for cash, anti-corruption inquiry finds It was ruled last week that the officer, who Staffordshire Police have kept anonymous, would have been dismissed had he not already resigned. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/9/2025 News PSNI car damaged after being attacked by crowd A police car has sustained significant damage after being attacked by a large crowd in Co Down. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 23/9/2025 News Montreal police resolve cold case from 2008 using genetic genealogy to ID killer CANADA: A long-standing cold case was cracked using genetic genealogy to identify the man who killed a Montreal woman in her apartment in 2008, police said Wednesday. Blue Line (Canada) 23/9/2025 News B.C. launches task force to tackle extortions, shootings in South Asian community CANADA: Authorities in British Columbia are acknowledging the fear and disappointment among the province’s South Asian community amid a spate of extortions and violence that has seen homes and businesses sprayed with bullets. Blue Line (Canada) 23/9/2025 News RCMP rolling out new uniform shirts across Canada CANADA: As part of ongoing efforts to modernize the RCMP uniform, the RCMP is starting to roll out new navy-blue uniform shirts on a province-by-province basis. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 23/9/2025 News Garda recruitment campaigns to take place around Donegal REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A Garda recruitment campaign is now taking place, with events to take place around Donegal. Donegal News (Republic of Ireland) 23/9/2025 News Targeted Garda operation in Wexford seeks to ‘seriously disrupt’ dealers as over €22,000 worth of drugs seized REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Friday, September 19, was a date that was circled on calendars on the walls of Wexford and New Ross Garda Stations. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 23/9/2025 News «444445446447448449450451452Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
