Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 105134 total results. Showing results 94721 to 94740 «473347344735473647374738473947404741Next ›Last » Scottish Government launches strategy to combat human trafficking The Scottish Government has launched a new strategy aimed at eliminating the “appalling” crime of human trafficking. The National 31/5/2017 News Rennie to call for police and fire services to keep £35m VAT a year The Scottish LibDems will today launch their election manifesto with a call to let Scotland’s police and fire services keep the £35m they lose each year to the Treasury in VAT. The Herald (Scotland) 31/5/2017 News Policing and justice matters should be central to election debate The number of police officers we need has come firmly on to the news agenda. The Scotsman 31/5/2017 Feature, Opinion Wanted: London detectives – no experience necessary Metropolitan police for the first time welcome applications from aspiring sleuths with no policing experience The Guardian 31/5/2017 News ‘People are not ready to accept armed police as the norm’ – Lincs police commissioner Lincolnshire's Police and Crime Commissioner says he does not believe the public wants police to be routinely armed, despite huge support for armed patrols after the Manchester terror attack. Lincolnshire Live 31/5/2017 News Manchester suicide bomber was mostly ‘acting alone’, police say The Manchester suicide bomber mostly acted alone in the days before the attack, police have said. Salman Abedi is thought to have purchased the main components for the bomb and assembled it himself before blowing himself up and killing 22 others at the Manchester Arena last week. The Telegraph 31/5/2017 News Going off script: Encouraging a policing environment that allows innovation Do scripts - and other similar prescriptive frameworks - undermine police officers' ability to think for themselves? Emma Williams of Canterbury Christ Church University argues that officers need to be able to be human, and to make mistakes, and flags up CCCU's June conference on barriers to change. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 31/5/2017 Opinion Police chief Nazir Afzal quit to appear on Question Time The head of the national body for police commissioners resigned in order to appear on the BBC's Question Time following the Manchester attack. BBC 31/5/2017 News Met Police detectives to be recruited directly For the first time, a British police force will recruit people directly to become detectives without them working as beat officers in uniform. BBC 31/5/2017 News Salman Abedi built Ariana Grande concert bomb alone The Manchester bomber operated alone in the four days before he murdered 22 concertgoers with a nail bomb he assembled in a city centre apartment, police believe. The Times - Subscription at source 31/5/2017 News Smuggling gang made £1.2m from illegal migrants A gang of people traffickers who made at least £1.2 million smuggling illegal immigrants, fugitives and terrorists out of Britain has been jailed. The Times - Subscription at source 31/5/2017 News Internment: Could it help fight terrorism? In the wake of the Manchester suicide bomb attack a former assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has called for the reintroduction of internment camps. BBC 30/5/2017 Analysis, Feature APCC Statement – Resignation of Chief Executive Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) 30/5/2017 News Muslim police chief Nazir Afzal resigns ‘in row over media coverage of Manchester terror attack’ Mr Afzal announced the resignation on his Twitter account, saying he would not be "saying anything publicly" Mirror 30/5/2017 News Update on the 2016/17 Budget – North Wales We are currently projecting additional income of £0.544m. This is due to increases in the Welsh Government PCSO grant, and Speed Reduction Grant. North Wales OPCC 30/5/2017 Report Northumbria Police and Crime Panel Update Report The main focus of the PCCs grants programme 2017-18 is to support the Police and Crime Plan objectives ‘putting victims first’, ‘reducing ASB’ and ‘building community confidence’ Northumbria OPCC 30/5/2017 Report Weekly academic research summary This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts - plus a short guide outlining how serving police officers and staff can get access, free, to many of the articles listed through the National Police Library. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 30/5/2017 News Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect Police officers speak significantly less respectfully to black than to white community members in everyday traffic stops, even after controlling for officer race, infraction severity, stop location, and stop outcome. This paper presents a systematic analysis of officer body-worn camera footage, using computational linguistic techniques to automatically measure the respect level that officers display to community members. This work demonstrates that body camera footage can be used as a rich source of data rather than merely archival evidence, and paves the way for developing powerful language-based tools for studying and potentially improving police–community relations. PNAS 30/5/2017 Report SNP Manifesto: “Stronger for Scotland” Scottish National Party manifesto for General Election June 2017 Scottish National Party (SNP) 30/5/2017 Report Violent crime: Scotland shows the way in reducing gun and knife crime Innovative work in Scotland has helped drastically drive down rates of violence, including knife crime. As England’s capital sees sharp increases in gun and knife crime, around 42 and 24 per cent, according to recent figures released by the Metropolitan Police, can Scotland's experience shed light on how to tackle such a devastating crime? Will Linden, Acting Director at the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) which works with Police Scotland, speaks to Policing Insight. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 30/5/2017 Feature, Interview, Opinion «473347344735473647374738473947404741Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
