Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103270 total results. Showing results 1021 to 1040 «484950515253545556Next ›Last » Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities This article reviews how police investigate Intimate Partner Sexual Violence (IPSV). IPSV is both domestic abuse and sexual violence. This duality means there is flexibility as to how it is investigated. An empirical study in England and Wales shows that as a result of this duality/flexibility there is significant variability in how IPSV is investigated by police forces. Despite widespread support for taking a specialist approach to investigating sexual offending, not much attention has been given to the best way to configure specialist units. This article explores officers’ perceptions of the challenges of conducting investigations of this type and considers how variability in how IPSV is located may impact the ability of officers to overcome those challenges. We find that forces who locate the investigation of IPSV with specialist domestic abuse officers appear more likely to be able to overcome the challenges associated with this type of offending, due to more consistent understanding of the context of coercive control in which it typically occurs. Policing and Society 10/6/2025 Research article Homicides in Scotland fall to lowest total on record Police Scotland said attempted murders and serious assaults were also at their lowest levels in recent years The Times - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 News Police feature in complaints to territory ombudsman AUSTRALIA: More than 40 per cent of complaints to a crime-troubled territory's ombudsman have been made against police and the prison system. Some prisoners can't even lay complaints due to prison lockdowns or being held in watchhouses, Northern Territory Acting Ombudsman Candice Maclean has told a parliamentary estimates hearing. Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro defended the reintroduction of spit hoods for youths in custody at the hearing on Tuesday, saying her government was delivering on an election process to crackdown on crime and protect officers. South Coast Register (Australia) 10/6/2025 News Anthony Albanese resists calls for federal intervention into two aboriginal deaths in Northern Territory police custody AUSTRALIA: Anthony Albanese has pushed back against calls for a federal intervention following two Aboriginal deaths in custody, which has left a Northern Territory community in "deep shock". Sky News 10/6/2025 News Terrorism laws will give gardaí ‘ability to respond to domestic and cross-border threats’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: New laws aimed at combatting terrorism will be brought to Cabinet on Tuesday that will give An Garda Síochána the ability to “respond to both domestic and cross-border terrorist threats”. The minister for justice, Jim O’Callaghan, will seek approval from ministers for the new Terrorist Offences Bill, allowing for the prosecution of a broader range of terrorist activities. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 News Police force must improve call response times Warwickshire Police must improve how fast it responds to 999 and 101 calls, the policing watchdog has said. A report by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found whilst the force's call handling had improved since its last inspection in 2022, inspectors still had "serious concerns" about how quickly officers responded once the calls had been answered. BBC 10/6/2025 News HMICFRS inspection findings – June 2025 Today, Tuesday 10 June, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has published its findings from a PEEL (Police Effectiveness, Efficiency and Legitimacy) Inspection of Warwickshire Police. The report follows an inspection from November 2024 to January 2025 and identifies areas of good work and progress on challenges, while also highlighting areas for further improvement. The report’s gradings found us to be ‘good’ in two areas, ‘adequate’ in three, ‘requiring improvement’ in three and ‘inadequate’ in one. Warwickshire Police 10/6/2025 News Force’s intervention hub with specialist skills praised but turning up to incidents an issue PEEL inspection also finds that Warwickshire officers with more than five years’ service were becoming disillusioned and felt the force didn’t value their skills. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 News Landmark conference outlines how future tragedies in Lancashire can be avoided A landmark conference, bringing together key partners from policing, criminal justice, health, and local government, has been held to outline how future tragedies in Lancashire can be avoided. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 News Essex use of CBOs for prolific shoplifters an ‘extra incentive’ to cease offending Chelmsford Neighbourhood Policing Team have recently secured criminal behaviour orders with five and two-year terms. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 News Warwickshire Police prevents crime well, but must improve its response to the public Warwickshire Police is good at preventing and deterring crime, but there are “serious concerns” in how it responds to the public, the police inspectorate has said. Police Professional 10/6/2025 News NT Police are ‘racist’, Chief Minister ‘complicit’ in genocide — Thorpe AUSTRALIA: Senator Lidia Thorpe has accused the Northern Territory Police of being "racist" and labelled the NT Chief Minister "out of touch" and "complicit in the ongoing genocide against our people". National Indigenous Times (NIT) (Australia) 10/6/2025 News If you don’t want trust in police eroded, start by treating all kids with humanity AUSTRALIA: When a senior watch house officer taunted a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy about suicide in June 2024, ensuing questions should never have been about the teenager's crimes, history with police or attitude. The Canberra Times (Australia) - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 Analysis, Feature Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police This article examines police attitudes related to racism, non-discrimination and racialised minorities in the Nordic welfare state context, as well as the central framings that police use when addressing these questions. It aims to contribute to the research tradition that investigates the understandings of institutional racism and the racialisation of minorities by police. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, the article combines quantitative analysis from a survey conducted with police officers in three police districts in Finland and qualitative analysis of the responses to the open-ended survey questions. The article identifies three main orientations among the police: colour-blind universalism, inclusivity and anti-wokeness. While the police is divided between attitudes characterised by inclusivity and those of anti-wokeness, many officers adopt a colour-blind universalist orientation, supporting equality but lacking the ability or willingness to recognise structural racism. Despite these differences, police officers also commonly hold a set of views about minority communities, which we conceptualise as ‘racial undercurrents’. The article argues that while there is a struggle amongst police officers about (the implementation of) inclusivity and non-discrimination policies the shared racial undercurrents uphold the central parameters of the Finnish racial state. The findings also witness of efforts to address racism and develop non-discrimination work within police. The racial welfare state is characterised by two kinds of processes – those seeking to challenge existing racialising ideologies and structures and those reproducing (consciously or by following taken-for-granted notions and routines) the racial hierarchies of the society. Policing and Society 10/6/2025 Research article One-third of vehicles stopped by Invercargill police unroadworthy NEW ZEALAND: A third of the cars stopped in Invercargill over two days last week "should not have been on the road", police say. 1 News (New Zealand) 10/6/2025 News Diary of an internet intelligence investigation researcher Alice Hancock shares what it’s like working in the digital investigations and intelligence team at Thames Valley Police College of Policing 10/6/2025 Feature, Opinion PEEL 2023–2025: An inspection of Warwickshire Police In 2023–2025, we carried out a PEEL inspection of Warwickshire Police. PEEL stands for police efficiency, effectiveness and legitimacy. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 10/6/2025 Report CDIO Scot Dunn: ‘Front-line cops have nothing to worry about from AI – it can only make their lives better’ Humberside Police has become a story of turnaround success, from being the first UK force to be rated ‘inadequate’ to becoming graded in most areas as ‘outstanding’ or ‘good’, and technology has played key part in the transformation; Police Insight’s James Sweetland spoke to the force’s Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Scot Dunn about the role artificial intelligence has played in that journey, the importance of focusing new tech on supporting victims, and the difference a national policing centre could make. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 Feature, Innovation, Interview 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. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 10/6/2025 News Warwickshire Police prevents crime well, but must improve its response to the public Warwickshire Police is good at preventing and deterring crime, but it must improve how it responds to the public, the police inspectorate has said. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 10/6/2025 News «484950515253545556Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
