Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115236 total results. Showing results 12201 to 12220 «607608609610611612613614615Next ›Last » Research says that policing is a stressful job. So what? Confessions of a reformed researcher Let us be clear from the start. I whole-heartedly welcome any increased focus on improving the wellbeing of police officers and staff. For some unfathomable reason, research into police wellbeing was a neglected topic by researchers up until the last decade, which since has seen a tsunami of studies, reports, and guidance, produced and issued in the UK alone (e.g. see Oscar Kilo). My point simply concerns where research on police wellbeing and mental health needs to focus next. Or speaking as one of ‘the usual suspects’, where we need to develop it in both scope and depth, to make it useful. BSC Policing Network 26/6/2025 Feature, Opinion Budget cap amounts to ‘defunding of the police,’ warns NRP chief CANADA: Bill Fordy says Niagara Region’s 3.5 per cent cap on 2026 budget increases equates to a 4.5 per cent cut from the service's projected base budget. The Standard (St Catherines) (Canada) - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News Organised Vehicle Theft in the UK This Occasional Paper provides an analysis of vehicle theft in the UK, including trends, responses and challenges. RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) 26/6/2025 Report N.S. mayors concerned province ‘pushing’ municipal police out as government expands RCMP role CANADA: Some Nova Scotia mayors of municipalities with their own police forces are concerned the province's move to expand the RCMP's role will push out municipal departments, leading to worse service and less local control. CBC News (Canada) 26/6/2025 News SFO cracks down on corruption through international alliance UK Serious Fraud Office joins global anti-corruption alliance to combat cross-border corruption. Serious Fraud Office 26/6/2025 News New ICE mobile app pushes biometric policing onto American streets USA: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly deployed a new surveillance tool in its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arsenal – a smartphone app known as Mobile Fortify. Designed for ICE field agents, the app enables real-time biometric identity verification using facial recognition or contactless fingerprints. BiometricUpdate.com 26/6/2025 News Applying the Child First framework in youth justice services RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: Independent research that explores how the Child First framework is applied across YJSs in England and Wales. Crest Advisory was commissioned by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) to deepen its understanding of how the Child First framework is being applied within youth justice services (YJSs) across England and Wales. Youth Justice Board 26/6/2025 Report Drew Harris defends garda handling of Evan Fitzgerald case after ‘active shooter’ fired in shopping centre after arrest REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Drew Harris has defended garda handling of the Evan Fitzgerald case after the gunman killed himself with a gun in a Carlow Shopping Centre after being arrested for buying guns from undercover cops. The Irish Sun (Republic of Ireland) 26/6/2025 News Garda and wife use anti-stalking laws to seek restraining order against senior officer REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A garda and his wife are using anti-stalking laws to secure a civil restraining order against a high-ranking superior officer claiming harassment and bullying. They lodged an application at Dublin District Court, which came before Judge Aine Clancy today. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News €40m in cash evidence held by An Garda Síochána, Oireachtas Committee hears REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: €40 million in cash evidence is being held by An Garda Síochána, an Oireachtas Committee has heard. Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) when members questioned him on how much money the organisation held in bank notes, which is evidence. In response, Mr Harris confirmed the amount held across the garda estate was in the order of €40 million. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 26/6/2025 News Doing discretion – authority, ambiguity and control in German traffic stops This article explores how police discretion is enacted, constrained, and withheld during routine traffic stops in Germany. While traffic stops appear mundane, they are key sites of police intervention where authority is negotiated, suspicion constructed, and legal procedures strategically mobilised. Rather than treating discretion as a static legal margin, this study conceptualises it as a situational and procedural practice embedded in institutional routines, cultural typifications, and interactional dynamics. The analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork with urban patrol units and uses trans-sequential analysis to examine how police actions unfold in situ. This method allows for a detailed reconstruction of how officers identify enforcement and reference problems, initiate diagnostic sequences, and manage uncertainty through case work. Particular attention is paid to how discretion is exercised within the step-by-step construction of a ‘proper police case’. Three key patterns emerge: (1) discretion as a tool for negotiated order, where officers pragmatically align with compliant behaviour; (2) discretion under resource constraints, where fallback routines are used to resolve ambiguity; (3) the non-use of discretion, where rigid authority is enacted in response to defiance or typified deviance. The findings show that discretion is not a space of freedom, but a methodical intervention that enables officers to construct coherence under institutional and situational constraints. Discretion contributes to the reproduction of order – but also to the reproduction of inequality – when it is guided by typifications, vague legal categories, and unequal access to interpretive agency. The study highlights the need for greater transparency and reflexivity in routine policing. Policing and Society 26/6/2025 Research article Police chief to gang lords: ‘We’ll be coming after you’ Police Scotland is pursuing organised crime figures who are based abroad in connection with the central belt's ongoing gangland feud. BBC 26/6/2025 News Gross misconduct proven for two officers in strip search of Child Q at school Two Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers involved in the search involving the exposure of intimate parts of a 15-year-old black girl at a school in Hackney, East London, in 2020 have been found to have committed gross misconduct. Police Professional 26/6/2025 News Gross misconduct proven for two Met officers involved in strip search of ‘Child Q’ Met Commander says that 'organisational failings' meant that officer training around strip search and the type of search carried out on Child Q was inadequate, and oversight of the power was also 'severely lacking.' The officers involved are awaiting sanctions from the panel. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News Managerial approaches to mitigate police professionals’ online harms in the United Kingdom In this article, we draw on the concept of misconduct to explore how police organisations frame personnel’s online harms and its impact on managerial perceptions and strategies. The aim is to provide insights into whether and how a focus on organisational reputation pervades management practices. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews with police managers from 4 police forces in the United Kingdom (UK) and 46 social media policy documents, guidance and training materials used by 25 UK police services, we explore how police managers interpret organisational messaging in their conceptualisation of responsibilities and operationalisation of strategies to protect police personnel online. Line managers’ decisions and actions are largely shaped by, and in turn shape, the organisational culture and ethical climate around online harms. We highlight the need to shift police organisational cultures around online harms towards a duty of care, in part as a timely response to implementing the well-being emphasis in the UK’s revised Code of Ethics 2024. We present three practical recommendations for organisational leadership and social media policy making in a global context both within and beyond police organisations: (1) national-level advocacy for increased focus on personnel vulnerabilities which supports organisational-level shifts towards, (2) an emphasis on wellbeing, and (3) broader managerial training in online harms management. Police Practice and Research 26/6/2025 Research article Probabilities Over p-Values: A Decision Framework for Evidence-Based Policing Null-hypothesis significance testing (NHST) continues to dominate policing research, yet binary p-value thresholds offer little guidance for decision-makers who must navigate operational, fiscal, and political uncertainty. This paper introduces a decision-focused framework that helps police agencies make practical, risk-informed choices based on the probability that an intervention meets defined effectiveness or cost thresholds. Rather than ask whether a result is statistically significant, this approach focuses on whether the evidence is strong enough to justify proceeding, adjusting, stalling, or scrapping (PASS) a policy or program. The framework involves three core steps: estimating effects that matter to the agency, linking those effects to expected utility, and applying transparent decision thresholds. To demonstrate its application, the paper examines three examples: a synthetic study of use-of-force training, a synthetic hot-spots patrol experiment, and a real-world victim-engagement initiative. Across cases, the framework produces clear, actionable guidance that moves beyond yes-or-no significance tests and toward probability-informed decisions that reflect the realities of contemporary police leadership. The paper closes with practical suggestions for how researchers and analysts can better communicate probabilistic results in briefings, reports, and operational planning. By grounding decisions in transparent risk assessments rather than arbitrary thresholds, this approach makes statistical evidence more useful, more credible, more likely to be applied in real-world policing, and to further evidence-based policing. CRIMRXIV 26/6/2025 Research article “There’s really no risk of injury”: News coverage of law enforcement phlebotomy & the discursive power of the police perspective In at least 17 states, police draw blood from motorists they suspect of impaired driving. While law enforcement phlebotomy has largely gone unexamined outside of legal scholarship, newspapers around the United States have occasionally covered this burgeoning practice. I employ Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to answer the question: How have local and national newspapers in the United States portrayed law enforcement phlebotomy programs since their creation in 1995? As newspapers plays a pivotal role in communicating hegemonic discursivities to the news-reading public, this study offers insight into the discourse surrounding law enforcement phlebotomy. Through a Foucauldian lens, I find two competing discursive frames for understanding law enforcement phlebotomy: the first discursive frame, the police perspective, justifies law enforcement phlebotomy through a prioritization of governmental ideals, namely public security and increased police efficiency. The second discursive frame counters the police perspective by highlighting the risk of harm to suspects when police draw blood. The unanimously positive police discursive frame of law enforcement phlebotomy is ever-present throughout the sample, and represents discursive discipline in action. Crime Media Culture: An International Journal - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 Research article Child Q’s school strip-search was gross misconduct Two Metropolitan Police officers who conducted the "humiliating" strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl committed gross misconduct, a panel has found. BBC 26/6/2025 News Misconduct hearing into search of Child Q delivers findings Gross misconduct and misconduct has been proven for three officers involved in the search of Child Q. Metropolitan Police Service 26/6/2025 News Gross misconduct proven for two Met officers in strip search of Child Q at Hackney School Two Met officers involved in the search involving the exposure of intimate parts of a 15-year-old Black girl at a school in Hackney, east London in 2020, have been found to have committed gross misconduct, following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) 26/6/2025 News «607608609610611612613614615Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
