Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104784 total results. Showing results 1021 to 1040 «484950515253545556Next ›Last » National Crime Agency officer jailed for stealing £4.4m worth of seized bitcoin Paul Chowles, 42, stole the proceeds of an online illegal drugs market and laundered the money on the dark web The Guardian 16/7/2025 News The London Victim Attrition Review Reflections and Recommendations from London's Victims' Commissioner. Mayor's Office for Policing And Crime (MOPAC) 16/7/2025 Report Police wrong to join Pride march, judge rules Force failed to act impartially after taking part in last year’s Newcastle parade The Telegraph - Subscription at source 16/7/2025 News Funding boost for measures to tackle domestic abusers’ offending A project to address the root causes of the behaviour of domestic abusers and stop their offending is receiving a multi-million-pound investment to be rolled out across the country over the next four years. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 16/7/2025 News Police participation in Pride ruled ‘unlawful’ A chief constable's decision to allow uniformed police officers to take part in a Pride march was unlawful, a judge has ruled. BBC 16/7/2025 News Counterterror officers deemed David Amess killer a ‘great person’ Failings in the Prevent programme have been exposed in a report that revealed the murderer of the MP fell off the radar after just one meeting The Times 16/7/2025 News Prevent programme should continue referrals for no ideology – review Prevent, the Government’s counter-terror programme, could work better as part of a violence prevention strategy in the long term and should apply to those fascinated by extreme violence, a watchdog has said. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 16/7/2025 News Coroner raises concerns about police firearms training after man fatally shot A coroner has raised concerns that police firearms training did not ensure “clear and consistent understanding” about when armed officers should announce their arrival before a man was fatally shot during a raid. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 16/7/2025 News Dozens of extra staff hired to manage GPS tracking of domestic violence offenders months after issues emerged The WA government will spend tens of millions of dollars hiring extra staff to manage the GPS tracking of some of the state's most serious domestic violence offenders. Under laws that took effect late last year, it has been effectively mandatory for serious, repeat family and domestic violence offenders to be electronically monitored when out in the community. ABC News (Australia) 16/7/2025 News Global operation targets NoName057(16) pro-Russian cybercrime network EUROPE: The offenders targeted Ukraine and supporting countries, including many EU Member States. Between 14 and 17 July, a joint international operation, known as Eastwood and coordinated by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the cybercrime network NoName057(16). Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Czechia, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United States took simultaneous actions against offenders and infrastructure belonging to the pro-Russian cybercrime network. The investigation was also supported by ENISA, as well as Belgium, Canada, Estonia, Denmark, Latvia, Romania and Ukraine. The private parties ShadowServer and abuse.ch also assisted in the technical part of the operation. Europol 16/7/2025 News Does Police Proactivity Impact Arrests? Examining Variation Across Individual Officers Police officers and citizens come into contact either when a citizen requests police service or when an officer proactively stops a citizen. One of the most consequential outcomes of these encounters is the decision to arrest. However, little research has examined whether the likelihood of arrest differs by type of citizen contact or across officers. Using mixed-effects regression models that nest 850,000+ police-citizen contacts within 813 Phoenix Police Officers, we examine whether proactive (i.e., officer-initiated) or reactive (i.e., citizen-generated) events are more likely to produce an arrest. Separate models and equivalence tests identify predictors of arrest for each encounter type. Results indicate that officer-initiated events were significantly more likely to result in arrest than citizen-generated calls. Officer-level factors were also stronger predictors of arrest during proactive contacts. As such, future research focused on police proactivity must move beyond event and citizen characteristics to consider the influence of officers themselves. Police Quarterly - Subscription at source 16/7/2025 Research article Lessons for Prevent INDEPENDENT REPORT: Lord Anderson shares lessons for the programme following the murder of Sir David Amess by Ali Harbi Ali and the attack in Southport by Axel Muganwa Rudakubana. Home Office 16/7/2025 Report Examining disparity in police behavior during the 2020 social and political protests In 2020, the United States was gripped by three parallel social movements: an outrush of support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement after the murder of George Floyd, discontent regarding state-mandated lockdowns to mitigate the coronavirus-19 pandemic, and allegations of voter fraud after the November elections. Together, these movements generated a historic spike in protest activity that garnered significant attention, leading some to argue that the police had behaved disparately at protests associated with BLM compared with the other two. A dense literature in the early 2000s developed protest policing theories that pointed to policing culture or to racial threat theory to account for variation in police behavior, but how these theories account for protest policing during 2020 is unclear. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data and methods from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data set, I first examine allegations of racial discrimination in police behavior at protests. Then, I explore how on-the-ground interactions between police and protestors account for any seeming disparity. I demonstrate distinct patterns of police behavior shaped by different protestor behaviors across these social movements, as well as racial animus. These findings extend and clarify current theories of protest policing. CRIMRXIV 16/7/2025 Research article ‘We work in the grey around decision making’; how ‘thematic discretion’ can help understand police decision-making in cases of youth image-based sexual abuse In this paper, I argue that a new term, ‘thematic discretion’, can help us understand police decision-making in cases of youth image-based sexual abuse (YIBSA). YIBSA can be defined as harmful image-sharing practices amongst young people, inclusive of the non-consensual sharing of private sexual images, upskirting and cyberflashing, alongside other actions. I will be drawing on findings from a doctoral research project investigating YIBSA, which utilised a mixed methods approach, comprising of quantitative analysis of freedom of information requests from 40 police forces in England and Wales, as well as 26 qualitative interviews with police and non-police practitioners, also based within England and Wales. Research findings established that YIBSA is highly complicated, and as a result, police officers utilised discretion at a considerable rate, alongside crafting their own guidelines to direct their decision-making, which is argued to be steeped in sexist and victim-blaming narratives. Policing and Society 16/7/2025 Research article The secret to Baltimore’s extraordinary year USA: This April, Baltimore saw five homicides. That is the fewest of any month since 1970, when the city began tracking monthly homicide numbers. In the first six months of the year, homicides were down 22% compared to 2024, and non-fatal shootings were down 19%. This is the latest in a string of historic declines in violent crime. In 2024, homicides dropped 23% from 2023 numbers, and non-fatal shootings dropped 34%. In 2023, the city also saw record-breaking decreases. What has made Baltimore — which President Trump and other conservatives deride as a “filthy” Democrat-controlled “slum” — so successful in making its streets safer? Popular Information 16/7/2025 Feature Uniformed police officers were wrong to march in Pride event, high court rules Ruling against Northumbria police could affect other forces’ involvement with Remembrance parades and religious events, sources fear The Guardian 16/7/2025 News Police ‘breached impartiality’ by marching under Progress flag at Pride The chief constable of Northumbria police was wrong to allow officers to carry a symbol promoting transgender ideology, a High Court judge has said The Times - Subscription at source 16/7/2025 News Surrey mayor Brenda Locke sends letter to police chief with list of demands CANADA: Surrey's mayor Brenda Locke has sent a list of requests to police chief Norm Lipinski to help improve their communication. Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke has sent a letter to the city’s police chief asking for changes in how the two communicate. Locke sent Chief Const. Norm Lipinski a letter on June 19 laying out three requests: meetings twice a month between the two, monthly crime statistics showing trends and challenges, and immediate notification when a significant crime has occurred in the city. Vancouver Sun (Canada) 16/7/2025 News Ex-Metropolitan Police officer guilty of rape A man has been convicted of raping a woman while he was a Metropolitan Police officer. BBC 16/7/2025 News PC touched colleague inappropriately, panel finds A police officer has been found to have touched a colleague intimately in a way that was "deliberate, unwarranted and unnecessary". BBC 16/7/2025 News «484950515253545556Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
