Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115189 total results. Showing results 10101 to 10120 «502503504505506507508509510Next ›Last » Met Police’s live facial recognition policy is ‘unlawful’, watchdog warns The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been granted permission to intervene in legal action over the issue The Independent 21/8/2025 News Force surveys store owners on Safer Streets initiative Cheshire officers have visited a number of retailers in Warrington, Macclesfield and Chester policing areas with a survey to find out how they felt their area was policed and what issues mattered to them. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 21/8/2025 News Wellbeing survey highlights worrying levels of exhaustion and fatigue in a ‘wake-up call’ for policing The latest wellbeing survey of police officers in England and Wales has been labelled a “wake-up call” by Andy Rhodes, Service Director at Oscar Kilo, the National Police Wellbeing Service, who told Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons that the police service is on “borrowed time” when it comes to officer attrition through exhaustion and fatigue, and warned that policing “can’t keep pushing the pedal harder”. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 21/8/2025 Analysis, Feature, Interview Rachel Tuffin: Navigating the challenges of redaction adoption The College of Policing's Rachel Tuffin discusses the complexities of redaction in policing, focusing on the challenges of national adoption of redaction software and the importance of implementation support. She highlights the lessons learned from initial tests and the ongoing efforts to facilitate the adoption of audio-visual redaction techniques. The conversation emphasizes the need for collaboration and support among police forces to overcome barriers to implementation. PolicingTV 21/8/2025 Feature, Interview, Video New recruits pass out in ‘new look’ outdoor ceremony The two cohorts include three former Herts PCSOs, three staff who previously worked in the Force Communications Room and two other ex-Herts police staff. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/8/2025 News Officer jailed for sexual offence returns to prison for ‘almost identical’ crime Stuart Trentham was sent to prison for 18 months by the same judge who sentenced him in February The Independent 20/8/2025 News Met Police’s facial recognition tech plans ‘breach human rights’ The Equality and Human Rights Commission said the technology would have a ‘chilling effect’ on freedom of speech if used at protests The Times - Subscription at source 20/8/2025 News The Evolution of Plural Policing in Ghana: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis This study traces the evolution of plural policing in Ghana from pre-colonial times to the present, highlighting diverse strategies across eras. In the pre-colonial period, policing was managed by informal local agents, community members, and self-regulation, influenced by African Traditional Religion. Colonial policing involved formal state actors, such as the Gold Coast Constabulary and Police Force, alongside informal non-state entities, including traditional authorities, private security, paramilitary forces, and merchant police. The former protected colonial interests, whereas the latter covered neglected areas. In contemporary Ghana, the Ghana Police Service is the main law enforcement body, but non-state actors, such as private security companies, vigilante groups, and traditional authorities, play crucial roles, especially where the state is perceived as ineffective. Through systematic desktop and documentary analysis, this study elucidates the presence and significance of plural policing in Ghana across historical periods, identifying diverse actors within the policing landscape. Based on these findings, this study emphasizes the necessity for Ghana to adopt plural policing by focusing on best practices and addressing challenges, recommending collaboration between state and non-state actors to enhance security provision. This study contributes to the literature by addressing the lack of comprehensive research on plural policing in Ghana from pre-colonial times to the present, encouraging investigations beyond the Ghana Police Service, and laying the groundwork for future research. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice - Subscription at source 20/8/2025 Research article Victims urged to report non-contact sex offences Victims of non-contact sexual offences are being urged to report the crimes, in a campaign launched by West Mercia Police. BBC 20/8/2025 News How Mexican judicial reforms may have fueled crime: Arrest trends and trust erosion Background: Mexico rolled out state-led criminal justice reforms between 2000 and 2017 to modernize procedures and improve rule of law. Whether these changes reduced violent crime—especially in cartel-affected areas—remains uncertain. Aims: Estimate the impact of reform implementation on homicides and arrests, and assess mechanisms related to enforcement capacity and public cooperation with law enforcement. Materials & Methods: We build a municipality–year panel (2000–2017) from death certificates (homicides) and administrative records (arrests). Because states adopted reforms at different times, we use difference-in-differences estimators designed for staggered adoption and heterogeneous treatment effects, with rich fixed effects and controls. To probe mechanisms, we analyze nationally representative survey measures of crime reporting, institutional trust, and perceived police/prosecutorial integrity. Results: Reform implementation is associated with a ~25% increase in homicide rates. Over the same horizon, arrest rates fall by >50%. As homicides are less prone to underreporting than other crimes, the homicide increase is unlikely to be a reporting artifact. Survey evidence shows reduced crime reporting, declining trust in institutions, and more negative views of police and prosecutors; effects are strongest in cartel-affected regions. Discussion: The pattern is consistent with an erosion of effective enforcement capacity at rollout: fewer arrests and lower public cooperation raise expected returns to violent crime. In high-violence settings, reforms that change procedures without parallel boosts to investigative and prosecutorial capacity—and without safeguards for witnesses—can weaken deterrence. Conclusion: Mexico’s staggered judicial reforms coincided with higher homicides and sharply lower arrests. Successful reform in violent contexts likely requires coordinated institutional strengthening (policing, prosecution, witness protection), phased implementation with measurable benchmarks, and strategies to sustain public trust and reporting. Criminology and Public Policy 20/8/2025 Research article Met Police’s use of facial recognition tech must comply with human rights law, says regulator The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has called on the Metropolitan Police to ensure that its use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT) complies with human rights law. The human rights regulator has been granted permission to intervene in an upcoming judicial review examining whether the Met Police’s use of the technology complies with human rights law. The EHRC acknowledges the potential value of LFRT to policing but believes that the Met’s current policy governing the use of LFRT is incompatible with Articles 8 (right to privacy), 10 (freedom of expression), and 11 (freedom of assembly and association) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Equality and Human Rights Commission 20/8/2025 News Number of Mounties on long-term sick leave poses ‘significant operational challenges’: report CANADA: Union says advisory board ignores management's role in getting members back to work. The proportion of Mounties on long-term, off-duty sick leave has reached an all-time high and become a critical issue for the national police force, according to a new outside report. The Management Advisory Board (MAB), an oversight body that advises the RCMP commissioner, is warning that the existing model of unlimited sick leave at full pay is unsustainable and in need of a rethink in order to get more officers back on patrol — recommendations that are already garnering vehement disagreement from the RCMP union. CBC News (Canada) 20/8/2025 News ‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare CANADA: Through 2022, the Vancouver Police Department received a stream of requests from journalists asking about stranger assaults. It was a municipal election year, and those particular crimes had become a hot-button issue after police shared a troubling statistic in October 2021 showing Vancouver had been seeing an average of 4.2 stranger assaults per day, with the victims attacked entirely at random. CTV News (Canada) 20/8/2025 News FOI reveals compensation for Victoria’s new police chief, head-hunting cost CANADA: Victoria’s incoming police chief has secured a salary nearly $53,000 higher than her predecessor. CTV News Vancouver Island has learned Victoria Police Department (VicPD) Chief Fiona Wilson is earning $350,000 annually. CTV News (Canada) 20/8/2025 News RNC to add special constables to police force CANADA: They will perform low-risk police functions on the northeast Avalon. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary will be adding special constables to the police force next year — with recruitment set to begin this fall — so that sworn police officers can focus on core policing duties. CBC News (Canada) 20/8/2025 News I now think police use of live facial recognition will make us safer – here’s why you should think so too Brian Paddick: I have been a Met officer and a critic. I still worry about the culture there. But as the Notting Hill carnival approaches, I am persuaded this is the best option The Guardian 20/8/2025 Feature, Opinion Man who shot Thames Valley officer with a crossbow after stabbing someone else gets 12 years In the sentencing hearing, His Honour Judge Cooper commended PC Foster and all of his colleagues for their immense bravery. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/8/2025 News Real-time facial recognition meets real-world debate, but where’s the data? Met Police struggle to defend policy with little hard, relevant testing. A plan by London’s Metropolitan Police to use live facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival has prompted fresh debate, but that debate is running up against a dearth of evidence about how real-time remote biometrics work in actual deployment to public spaces. BiometricUpdate.com 20/8/2025 Feature, Opinion ICO audit of two forces’ use of FRT gives both high assurance rating The Information Commissioner's Office has today published the findings of its first audit of South Wales and Gwent Police in a series looking at police use of facial recognition technology (FRT). Police Oracle - Subscription at source 20/8/2025 News Man who shot police officer with crossbow after stabbing member of the public jailed A man who shot a Thames Valley Police officer with a crossbow after stabbing a member of the public has been jailed. Police Professional 20/8/2025 News «502503504505506507508509510Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
