Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115189 total results. Showing results 10421 to 10440 «518519520521522523524525526Next ›Last » Row within Garda amid problems with online promotion test REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Process hit by technical issues, with those who complained allowed retake same two-hour assessment. A competition to promote candidates into the officer ranks of An Garda Síochána was beset with problems, prompting a row within the force, it has emerged. Some of the serving Garda members who applied for promotions claim their efforts to pass an online assessment and secure an interview for promotion were hampered on the day. The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 9/8/2025 News Public trust of Winnipeg Police Service CANADA: Shocking allegations against Winnipeg Police officers this week are creating concern about the public's faith in those assigned to protect them. One expert says instances like this erode trust in policing that's already been on the decline. Vasilios Bellos has more. Global News (Canada) 9/8/2025 News, Video ‘Unmask them now’: Police escort neo-Nazis at march in Melbourne CBD AUSTRALIA: Masked neo-Nazis have marched through Melbourne’s CBD under police escort, triggering calls for the Allan government to immediately expose those promoting “hate and menace”. Police were largely powerless to stop a rally of about 100 people from the National Socialist Network who marched through Bourke Street Mall at 12.40am on Saturday dressed in black and wearing face masks. Brisbane Times (Australia) 9/8/2025 News “Eyes” on the Street: Using Computer Vision to Get the Gist of How Environmental Design Shapes Crime Across Neighborhoods Purpose: Propose a new computational approach for measuring the visual features of places emphasized by the crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) framework, aesthetic value and natural surveillance. Inspired by lessons from cognitive psychology, this approach replaces object-based measures of environments (e.g., how many trees are present) with measures of visual 'gists' capturing broad image assessments. Methods: 4,800 respondents were surveyed to provide human ratings of five CPTED-inspired gist metrics (preference, complexity, memorability, transparency, and enclosure) for 8,249 Chicago Google Street View images. Using residual neural networks, we trained a series of computer vision models that could predict human-rated gist scores on new images. After validating out-of-sample performance, these models were applied to estimate CPTED gist scores on a larger set of 187,048 Chicago street-view images. Multi-level variance decomposition analysis was used to probe the nested geographic structure of gist metrics. Elastic net regressions were used to evaluate whether gist features were correlated with crime and prosociality (as measured via voting participation rates). Results: AI-assigned gist labels correlated highly with human-ratings, suggesting very strong out-of-sample accuracy for all gist models. Variance decomposition results suggested CPTED gists substantially vary across census tracts even when accounting for micro-spatial visual differences. Regression results suggested that gist metrics tended to be strongly correlated with crime, out-performing object-based measures in most instances. In particular, visual preference demonstrated a strong negative association with crime frequency and a positive association with prosociality. Conclusions: CPTED-inspired measures of visual gist explain variation in crime frequency and prosociality above and beyond what can be explained solely by object-based measures. Future research should seek to understand how broad visual gists and the presence of specific objects interact to shape behavior and decision-making among guardians, offenders, and targets. CRIMRXIV 8/8/2025 Research article Inside the police unit tracking down child sex abuse victims Detectives spend hours each day examining horrific pictures and videos of children being assaulted and the number of cases keeps rising The Times - Subscription at source 8/8/2025 Feature Wiltshire Police ‘risk undoing all progress’ made over unsustainable funding formula The region's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Phillip Wilkinson, has raised "serious concerns" over the financial sustainability of Wiltshire Police, after what his office describes as years of continued under-funding and the risk this poses to effectively policing its communities. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 8/8/2025 News NCA to investigate police officer sex abuse claims The National Crime Agency (NCA) will take over an investigation into allegations that South Yorkshire Police officers sexually abused children in Rotherham. The BBC reported in July that five women who were exploited by grooming gangs as children have said they were also abused by police officers in the town in the 1990s to early 2000s. BBC 8/8/2025 News Met Police officer who turned up for work drunk is sacked from the force A Metropolitan Police officer who turned up for work drunk has been sacked. Detective Constable Neil Gray’s colleagues raised concerns that he smelt of alcohol at Jubilee House in Putney Bridge Road, south west London, where his unit shares a building with the force’s anti-corruption command. The Standard 8/8/2025 News Restriction zones will ‘unduly influence’ release of offenders Ministers are seeking to introduce restriction zones that will limit where abusers can go to allow survivors to go about their daily lives without fear of seeing their offender. Sexual and violent offenders could be restricted to certain locations and tracked with technology, and would face jail time for breaching the conditions under new proposals. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 8/8/2025 News Force asks NCA to investigate former officers accused of non-recent abuse in Rotherham South Yorkshire Police has asked the National Crime Agency (NCA) to take on the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) directed investigation into former officers accused of non-recent sexual abuse in Rotherham. Police Professional 8/8/2025 Analysis, Feature PSNI launches plan to address concerns from ethnic minority communities Chief Constable Jon Boutcher said he wants to ensure everyone in the region feels safe, supported and respected as he launched the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)’s Race and Ethnicity Action Plan. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 8/8/2025 News Concerns over ‘gaps’ in police support for stalking victims in England and Wales Survivors of stalking, campaigners for women’s safety and heads of law enforcement have raised concerns over continuing failings by police in England and Wales to tackle perpetrators and protect victims. The Guardian 8/8/2025 News Former PCSO ‘obsessed with weapons’ jailed for trying to make 3D-printed gun Judge Simon Hirst told Watts, custody would be more difficult for her because of her neurodivergence, her previous police career and her transgender identity. A former Lincolnshire PCSO with an “obsession” with weapons who used a 3D printer to make parts for a semi-automatic gun has been jailed for more than eight years. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 8/8/2025 News NCA to investigate police officer sex abuse claims The National Crime Agency (NCA) will take over an investigation into allegations that South Yorkshire Police officers sexually abused children in Rotherham. BBC 8/8/2025 News Pro-Palestine protester threatened with arrest takes legal action against Kent police Laura Murton seeks damages and apology after police said her demonstration expressed support for banned Palestine Action The Guardian 8/8/2025 News Rotherham abuse survivors welcome police climbdown over internal inquiry South Yorkshire police will no longer lead investigation into alleged crimes of former officers after move caused outcry The Guardian 8/8/2025 News WA Police introduce new high-tech command vehicles to boost emergency response AUSTRALIA: WA Police has expanded its operational capability with the introduction of a new state-of-the-art Incident Command Vehicle (ICV) and two Forward Command Vehicles (FCVs), aimed at supporting major operations and critical incidents across the state. WAMN News (Australia) 8/8/2025 News Khan breaks manifesto pledge as Met cuts police counters Residents of a dozen London boroughs will lose their ability to report local crimes in person as part of a move to save the Metropolitan Police £7 million The Times - Subscription at source 8/8/2025 News NSW police officers jailed for assaulting woman suffering mental health episode during welfare check AUSTRALIA: Two police officers who punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed a naked woman experiencing a mental health episode will spend the next three years behind bars. Nathan Black, 28, and Timothy John Trautsch, 30, were sentenced in the Penrith district court in Sydney on Friday. The Guardian 8/8/2025 News Gardaí join FBI in global takedown of websites used by notorious cyber crime gang REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: GARDAÍ have helped take down a major part of the online network used by a criminal gang behind a series of international ransomware attacks. The Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau was part of a joint international operation that led to the seizure of websites and online systems used by the Blacksuit Ransomware Group. The Journal (Republic of Ireland) 8/8/2025 News «518519520521522523524525526Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
