Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115258 total results. Showing results 12441 to 12460 «619620621622623624625626627Next ›Last » Finding the Way Out: A Process Evaluation of a Gang Intervention and Exiting Program The Gang Intervention and Exiting Program (GIEP) was developed by law enforcement to address the rising problem of gang involvement in British Columbia, Canada. The program seeks to assist highly at-risk individuals and entrenched gang members in disengaging from gang life. The current study involved a process evaÂluation to assess program implementation in the context of (1) recruitment, (2) dosage, and (3) staffing. A mixed-methods approach was used, with data derived from multiple sources including 39 interviews with program staff and stakeholders, police data, and various forms of program internal records. The GIEP experienced an increase in referral frequency from a variety of sources over time, established an effective referral and outreach process, provided valued service referrals for clients (such as counseling, education, employment services, and positive mentorship), and engaged the clients’ families. Challenges regarding minimal client referrals from law enforcement, variable client-case manager contact frequency, funding restrictions on service provision, unbalanced staffing of civilian to police members, and lack of clear internal communication were also noted. Recommendations are discussed. Justice Evaluation Journal 21/6/2025 News Writing at the speed of hype: officers’ post-experimental perceptions of AI report writing Objective: This study examines patrol officer and supervisor perceptions of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assist with officer report writing. We compare attitudes among patrol officers randomly assigned to use the AI tool against those who were not. Methods: Following a randomized controlled trial within a single agency, we conducted a post-intervention survey of patrol officers and supervisors. Results: Patrol officers expressed generally favorable perceptions toward AI-assisted report writing, though no significant differences emerged between treatment and control groups in perceived utility, speed improvement, or quality enhancement. Despite these non-significant differences, 48% of treated officers reported time savings. Supervisors perceived noticeable improvements in report quality, completeness, and writing efficiency. Conclusion: Officer perceptions of AI-assisted report writing were broadly positive but did not differ significantly by experimental exposure. Agencies adopting similar tools should anticipate mixed officer reactions and prioritize training, realistic expectations, and supervisor support. Journal of Experimental Criminology 21/6/2025 Research article How to reclaim the streets from crime, by a police chief with a plan Britain’s longest-serving chief constable says people are right to ask why officers ignore the basics while pursuing ‘online spats’. This is what he wants to do The Times - Subscription at source 21/6/2025 Feature Solar farm installed at Leicestershire Police’s HQ Bosses say a new solar farm at Leicestershire Police's Enderby headquarters is forecast to generate the equivalent of £2.1m worth of energy over the next 25 years. BBC 21/6/2025 News Queensland lab boss has ‘less than a week’ to save her job AUSTRALIA: The embattled head of Queensland’s state-run forensic testing lab has less than a week to explain why she should not be removed from the job. Attorney-General Deb Frecklington suspended Forensic Science Queensland director Dr Linzi Wilson-Wilde late on Friday, pending a show cause notice for her removal. Wilson-Wilde has been in the job since last September, with her appointment announced by then-health minister Yvette D’Ath a day before the government entered caretaker mode ahead of the state election. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/6/2025 News Taoiseach backs Garda Commissioner after lack of clarity from minister REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Taoiseach has backed the Garda Commissioner days after the Justice Minister did not take an opportunity to express confidence in the policing chief. On Tuesday, Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan was asked about his contact with Commissioner Drew Harris over a series of disclosures and developments about how the service deals with matters around guns. This included the storage of firearms at garda headquarters, defective gun holsters, and garda interactions with a man facing gun charges who later died by suicide. Breaking News (Republic of Ireland) 21/6/2025 News North Wales Police’s performance on hate crime scrutinised The performance of the police on hate crime and equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) was the focus of scrutiny at the latest meeting. The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for North Wales scrutinised the force's performance at the strategic executive board. The Leader 21/6/2025 News World Police Summit: Highlighting global policing advancements including counter drug technologies We were lucky enough to be at the World Police Summit in Dubai last month and are highlighting various aspects of modern policing, including road safety initiatives, cybercrime challenges, and innovative technologies in law enforcement. In this video introduced by Bernard and our PTV colleagues, we hear brief introductions from a range of attendees, and then deep dive with Michael Brown Director of Counter Drug Technologies at Rigaku Analytical Devices, on their latest device the Ramen a handheld laser designed to identify unknown substances in liquids or powders such as illicit drugs. Delivering presumptive analysis within 15 to 20 seconds. PolicingTV 21/6/2025 Advertisement, Feature, Video Why police forces serving multiple towns are breaking up in B.C. CANADA: Despite years of recommendations to amalgamate municipal police agencies into larger regional forces, more communities in B.C. are opting to go it alone Vancouver Sun (Canada) 20/6/2025 News Police officer charged with raping woman A Devon and Cornwall Police officer has been charged with rape. Sgt James Rawlinson, 36, was postal requisitioned over one charge of raping a woman aged 16 or over, said Devon and Cornwall Police. BBC 20/6/2025 News Police force confirms new chief constable A deputy chief constable will step up to the top job after her nomination was unanimously approved. Victoria Fuller had been named as the preferred candidate to replace Cleveland Police Chief Constable Mark Webster when he retires next month. BBC 20/6/2025 News Police officer who sent string of messages to Des O’Connor’s daughter after she was mugged should have been sacked from force, panel rules A Scotland Yard detective who sexually harassed Des O’Connor’s daughter should have been sacked, a misconduct panel has ruled. Former detective chief inspector James Mason was given a final written warning in October 2021 after calling Kristina O’Connor his ‘favourite Camden victim of crime’ and asking her on a date when she was injured during an attempted robbery a decade earlier. Mail Online 20/6/2025 News Cornwall police use survey, staff feedback to guide 2025-28 strategic plan CANADA: While a polished version of the 2025-28 Cornwall Police Service strategic plan won’t be finalized and made public until September, the board adopted the organization’s new plan in principle on Thursday. A draft version of the new plan was presented to the board by Chief of Police Shawna Spowart and Pamela Smit of Ottawa-based Veradus Consulting. Spowart said that despite a few outstanding related tasks, the draft plan highlighted the recommended framework to follow moving forward. Cornwall Standard-Freeholder (Canada) 20/6/2025 News NSW Police officer charged with allegedly assaulting two women in domestic violence attack AUSTRALIA: A police officer has been charged four months after allegedly assaulting two women in a domestic violence attack. The senior constable, 53, who is attached to a specialist command, allegedly assaulted two women, aged 53 and 36, during an altercation at a Caringbah home, in Sydney’s south, on Sunday, February 9 while he was off-duty. Police will allege they were called to the home, where they were told there had been a domestic violence incident. 7 News (Australia) 20/6/2025 News Understanding learned helplessness: The role of fear of crime and social support Learned helplessness can significantly impact mental health and wellbeing, and understanding its predictors and buffers is key for developing effective recognition and intervention programs. This study examined the predictive role of fear of crime and perceived interpersonal social support (ISS) in learned helplessness. Results showed that fear of crime was positively associated with learned helplessness, while perceived ISS was negatively associated with it. However, perceived ISS did not moderate the relationship between fear of crime and learned helplessness. These findings highlight the independent roles of fear of crime and social support in learned helplessness. Implications of the findings are discussed. The Police Journal: Theory Practice and Principles 20/6/2025 Research article When Do Guardians Deter Offending? An Experimental Test of Informal Social Control Mechanisms Purpose To inform community theories of informal social control, we test the circumstances under which private citizens can be effective in deterring would-be offenders and identifying characteristics and motivations of citizens willing to assume this role. Methods We conducted 447 trials of an online laboratory experiment with monetary incentives in which participants were randomly assigned to one of three roles: Target, Guardian, or Thief. Thieves could steal from Targets but Guardians could pay to punish Thieves for taking. We observe rates of theft while randomizing the presence of Guardians and their number, the cost of punishment for the Guardian, and the maximum punishment by Guardians. We also measured participant regard for others. Results Potential offenders were deterred by punishments provided punishment potentially exceeded the rewards of offending but only when their regard for the welfare of others was low. Potential offenders with high regard for the welfare of others were unlikely to offend regardless of the threat of punishment. The pronounced interaction between deterrence and regard for others is notable because the main effect of regard for others is far larger than the main effect of the threat of punishment. The impact of regard for the welfare of others also extended to guardians. Guardians were willing to punish infractions even if punishing was costly for them and did so more often when their regard for others was higher. Conclusions The risk that a community member might intervene on behalf of a victim deters others from offending, however regard for the welfare others had a far larger impact on taking decisions than the capacity of guardians to punish. We discuss implications for community interventions with deterrence components. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 20/6/2025 Research article Beyond Identification: A Problem-Oriented Approach to Diagnosing Racial Disparities in Policing Objectives: Underlying racial disparities in policing to inform the design and implementation of problem-oriented police reforms. Methods: We sample over 1.5 million traffic stops conducted between 2019 and 2023 in a state police agency and use the Veil-of-Darkness (VOD) method on a subset of 299,767 stops within the intertwilight period to demonstrate the utility of the diagnostic framework. This method utilizes weighted logistic regression with daylight as the primary independent variable and driver race as the dependent variable. Results: As part of demonstrating the framework, we found that disparities were largely diffuse across the agency, with some concentration among officers and patrol regions. As such, it would be best to design multi-pronged trainings and interventions that reflect these distinct patterns observed in the agency. Conclusions: This study developed a framework for diagnosing some of the theoretical mechanisms. The diagnostic framework provides a data-driven tool for researchers and practitioners to begin to understand where different types of racial disparity originate within police agencies. Future research building on this framework should explore the utility of incorporating alternative data sources and theoretical mechanisms, as well as assessing other metrics used to assess different types of racial disparities. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 20/6/2025 Research article Cascading Constraint and Subsidiary Discretion: Perspectives on Police Discretion From Police-Led Drug Diversion and Stop and Search in England This article explores how discretion is managed and exercised across senior, middle, and street levels of policing. It uses qualitative data from two studies in England. The first, a study across three police force areas, involved interviews and focus groups with 221 people who were designers, deliverers, and recipients of police-led drug diversion. The second study used 354 hours of ethnographic observation and 21 interviews to examine stop-and-search practices in one other police force. Rather than a simply expanding scope of discretion at lower levels of the hierarchy, the findings reveal a multi-level process of cascading constraints and subsidiary discretion. At each level, we observe the exercise of occupational professionalism and autonomous judgement, but higher-level constraints shape how discretion is applied in pursuit of organizational professionalism. The British Journal of Criminology 20/6/2025 Research article Bedfordshire Police using AI tool to profile political views, sex life, race and health data Bedfordshire Police is piloting a controversial AI-powered data system that can access highly sensitive information about individuals, including their race, political views, sex life and health, according to an investigation by Liberty Investigates and The i paper. Bedford Independent 20/6/2025 News New solar farm powers Leicestershire Police’s environmental ambitions A new state-of-the-art solar farm is helping Leicestershire Police reduce its carbon footprint and become greener. The force is believed to be one of the first in the country to invest in the installation of a small solar farm, which is powering operations at its headquarters in Enderby, Leicester, and pushing the force closer to its net zero ambitions. Police Professional 20/6/2025 News «619620621622623624625626627Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
