Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115456 total results. Showing results 93921 to 93940 «469346944695469646974698469947004701Next ›Last » Forget deserving issues and focus on basics, police told Police should focus on catching thieves and violent criminals and not incidents where no offence has been committed, a senior officer has said. BBC 1/11/2018 News Serious crime costs UK £37bn a year – National Crime Agency Serious and organised crime in the UK is costing the economy £37bn a year, according to the National Crime Agency. BBC 1/11/2018 News Home Secretary: ‘Police chiefs need to find ways to be more effective’ The Home Secretary has refused to commit to funding the police pension shortfall to alleviate pressure on force resources and has instead suggested that chief officers find new ways to provide a more effective service to the public with the resources they have. Police Professional 31/10/2018 News Former Met Police chief calls for more joint ICT spending A former commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has said there should be more joint investment in ICT among police forces, possibly through a single national fund. UKAuthority.com 31/10/2018 News Officers put off firearms roles by travel to flagship firearms centre Fed says its worse fears are being realised. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/10/2018 News Cleveland Police scraps two ranks as chief says there are too many managers Chief Constable Mike Veale says he wants to tackle 'complacency and bureaucracy' as he tries to overhaul the 'top heavy' force Teesside Live 31/10/2018 News Cleveland Police sickness level ‘a source of shame’ A police chief says he is without 100 members of his staff each day due to "intolerable" stress and pressure tackling "chaos" and "carnage". BBC 31/10/2018 News Dutch police return to pavement-pounding in fight against terrorism The Telegraph 31/10/2018 News A rare issue is causing police body cameras to explode The nation’s largest police force is changing its body-camera policy after a malfunctioning camera started a fire. Route Fifty 31/10/2018 News Police chief: officers shouldn’t have to log misogyny complaints Sara Thornton says funding cuts mean forces do not have resources or time to do so The Guardian 31/10/2018 News Home Office letter contradicts ‘extra £160m’ for counter-terrorism policing Funding increase is £59m year-on-year, says security official The Guardian 31/10/2018 News Hitting (or Missing) the Mark: An examination of police shooting accuracy in officer-involved shooting incidents The purpose of this paper is to examine police shooting accuracy and the factors that influence whether officers hit, or miss, their intended target. Descriptive statistics explore both incident-level and hit rate shooting accuracy in single officer/single suspect shooting incidents in the Dallas Police Department between 2003 and 2017. Multiple regression models analyse the predictive utility of officer, suspect and situational factors on the two accuracy outcomes. Consistent with prior research, the results demonstrate that officers are often inaccurate in officer-involved shooting (OIS) incidents. Additionally, several factors emerged as significant predictors of shooting accuracy. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management - Registration at source 31/10/2018 Research article Leadership and Change in Winnipeg’s Smart Policing Initiative If evidence-based policing is to be successful, we need to know more about how leaders can successfully introduce change into their organizations. This study looks at a Smart Policing Initiative (SPI) implemented by the Winnipeg Police Service. Line officers and management personnel were interviewed to determine how they dealt with the implementation of SPI. We used activity data to determine whether officers actually carried out the activities integral to the SPI programme. The research concludes that there was attitudinal ‘buy-in’ to the programme and that the officers did carry out the proactive policing activities mandated by the programme. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice - Registration at source 31/10/2018 Research article Government launches new national hate crime awareness campaign A new nationwide hate crime campaign aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of what constitutes a hate crime has been launched by the government. Home Office 31/10/2018 News Home Secretary’s Speech to APCC and NPCC Joint Summit 2018 The Home Secretary spoke to Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners at the APCC and NPCC Joint Summit 2018. Home Office 31/10/2018 Feature, Opinion Campaigners call on Mayor to have gang database scrapped City Hall says it is reviewing what the Met says is used to protect people. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/10/2018 News Calls to focus on violent crime instead of logging misogyny Home Secretary Sajid Javid says crime has 'changed faster than we could ever have imagined'. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/10/2018 News NPCC head to stand down Chief Constable Sara Thornton is to end her leadership of the chiefs' council. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 31/10/2018 News Online reporting doubles at Suffolk Suffolk Constabulary has seen online crime reporting almost double since the beginning of the year following the introduction of an “innovative” new digital telephony system – believed to be the first of its kind in use by a UK police force. Police Professional - Subscription at source 31/10/2018 Analysis, Feature Application of theory This week, the Research Inspector looks at practitioner research, an approach set to expand and develop significantly under the Police Educational Qualifications Framework. Police Professional - Subscription at source 31/10/2018 Analysis, Feature «469346944695469646974698469947004701Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
