Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104220 total results. Showing results 12501 to 12520 «622623624625626627628629630Next ›Last » Gross misconduct proven against ex-Leicestershire PC who flew to Turkey after reporting sick A disciplinary hearing ruled that a former Leicestershire Police constable who flew off on holiday on the same day he reported sick for duty, would have been dismissed if still serving with the force. Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) 22/9/2024 News Arrests of suspected criminals halve in a decade The fall in alleged offenders detained from 1.4 million to around 669,000 is despite police officer numbers hitting a record high The Telegraph - Subscription at source 22/9/2024 News Police officers get training to better recognise coercive control in family violence, amid claims some victims misidentified AUSTRALIA: A foundation set up in honour of Queensland mother Hannah Clarke and her three children is helping to train police officers to better spot signs of coercive control. Tasmanian police officers are among the latest across the country getting the training. Tasmania Police says it is moving away from an incident-based approach to family violence, and instead trying to better understand a broader picture of the situation and what has led to it. ABC News (Australia) 22/9/2024 News ‘Gross incompetence’: How Northern Territory police botched an alleged domestic violence case against one of its own detectives AUSTRALIA: Billie O'Keefe had little choice but to trust Northern Territory police when she made a complaint alleging domestic violence. Even when the complaint was against one of its own, a detective with whom she had been in a three-year relationship. But NT police ultimately botched the case, which was marred by failures and internal breaches during both the investigation and prosecution of the detective. ABC News (Australia) 22/9/2024 News Presocialisation and police misconduct: Exploring new tools for predicting officer exposure to misconduct investigations Police literature in the area of presocialisation for police recruits is sparse, with growing but limited empirical evidence as to its effect upon police performance and conduct. There are studies that measure the influence of police personality within recruitment processes, and subsequent studies that address the potential for misconduct prediction in serving officers, but this has not been developed to a level that justifies widespread operationalisation. This study investigates prior socialisation and motivation before police employment as potential predicting factors in exposure to misconduct investigation. The study represents a survey (n = 214) that was disseminated via social media to retired police officers in the United Kingdom (n = 94) and the United States (US) (n = 120). The participants were asked to disclose their prior socialisation to policing through family or friendship contact, alongside their prior motivations for becoming an officer. These were then compared to examine if that prior socialisation influenced motivation type, and then both sets of variables were compared with self-reported exposure to misconduct procedure by the participants. The results show that gender and the originating country are significantly correlated with exposure to misconduct investigation in both bivariate and univariate analysis. Males are more likely to be exposed to misconduct investigation, and those in the US are also more likely to be exposed to misconduct investigation. Variability of job content and economic motivations approach significance but may require large sampling to explore properly. These results show that aspects of motivation were less influential than geographic location and gender in determining exposure to misconduct investigation, and illuminate several avenues of future research in this area. The Police Journal: Theory Practice and Principles - Subscription at source 22/9/2024 News Cumbria Police paying thousands a year to informers Cumbria Constabulary has spent more than £300,000 in paying covert human intelligence sources since 2018, according to figures obtained by this newspaper. News & Star 22/9/2024 News NT police commissioner promises ‘cultural reform’, after Aboriginal police officers lodge human rights complaint AUSTRALIA: The Northern Territory's police commissioner has reiterated his commitment to "cultural reform" within NT Police, after three serving Aboriginal police officers lodged a human rights complaint alleging racial vilification and unequal pay. ABC News (Australia) 22/9/2024 News Police can now prosecute sellers of ‘nangs’, or nitrous oxide NEW ZEALAND: Police can now prosecute retailers selling “nangs”, or nitrous oxide for recreational use, as the Government moots a further crackdown on abuse of “laughing gas”. The Press (New Zealand) 22/9/2024 News Waikato Police Superintendent Bruce Bird gets temporary role after bullying ruling NEW ZEALAND: A police superintendent found to have bullied a senior officer is temporarily leaving his post to take up an “opportunity” to work out how to create efficiencies and “reduce duplication” across the organisation. Waikato police boss Bruce Bird begins his new role, which lasts for up to nine months, on October 14. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 22/9/2024 News Gardaí tried to seize RTÉ riot footage as detectives went to reporter’s home REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí made an unsuccessful 11th‑hour attempt to secure footage from RTÉ’s hard-hitting exposé on violent far-right protests just days before it aired this week. Officers initially tried to serve the order to reporter Barry O’Kelly – whose dramatic film contained strong criticism of An Garda Síochána’s ‘soft-touch’ policing of riots – on Tuesday, September 10. Extra.ie (Republic of Ireland) 22/9/2024 News Former RCMP officer on how guns can go missing CANADA: Former RCMP investigator Bruce Pitt-Payne discusses different scenarios of how guns can go missing and how the RCMP should be responding. CTV News (Canada) 21/9/2024 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Reimagining Community Safety: Perceptions of Policy and Practice in Five Cities The John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center and the Urban Institute helped the National League of Cities’ Center for Municipal Practice to support local government leaders in five U.S. cities as they worked to reimagine their visions for public safety. The Municipalities Reimagining Community Safety (MRCS) initiative was supported by the Wells Fargo Foundation’s Social Impact and Sustainability commitment. As research partner for the project, the Research and Evaluation Center (JohnJayREC) designed a three-wave survey focused on measuring the perceptions of local stakeholders involved in public safety efforts in each city. Results from the survey highlighted stakeholder opinions about the efficacy and equity of their city’s approaches to crime prevention and community well-being. Researchers explored trends across and within cities to assess the effects and success of the MRCS initiative. CRIMRXIV 21/9/2024 Research article Family of banker murdered 20 years ago rebuke ‘incompetent’ Police Scotland The family of a banker who was shot on his doorstep say they have lost confidence in Police Scotland as his murder remains unsolved almost 20 years on. Relatives of Alistair Wilson labelled the police “incompetent” and said they had lost trust in their ability to secure justice. The Guardian 21/9/2024 News Climate and war protests distracting police from protecting public, says Met chief Demonstrations by Just Stop Oil and pro-Palestine protesters have distracted the Metropolitan Police from protecting communities, the force’s chief has claimed. Sir Mark Rowley said that officers deployed to large demonstrations could have been used to investigate “crime, robberies, burglaries and chasing down wanted offenders”. The Standard 21/9/2024 News Crime victims in UK fight ‘devastating’ practice that stops appeal after a case is dropped Senior law officers urged to intervene over potential wrongful acquittals when Crown Prosecution Service offers no evidence The Guardian 21/9/2024 News GSPS body-worn cameras to roll out in 2025 pilot project CANADA: Greater Sudbury Police Service staff plan to begin rolling out body-worn cameras as part of a pilot project in 2025. sudbury.com (Canada) 21/9/2024 News One in 20 Australian adults found to have suffered reproductive coercion and abuse AUSTRALIA: One in 20 Australian adults found to have suffered reproductive coercion and abuse Australian Study of Health and Relationships finds 3.9% of women aged 16-69 had experienced contraceptive interference and 4.9% forced abortion The Guardian 21/9/2024 News Commissioner Webb pushes to sack former top cop’s nephew AUSTRALIA: Top cop Karen Webb has recommended the nephew of her predecessor Mick Fuller be sacked from the force — even though he was found not guilty of showing a sex video to colleagues. The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 News ‘Burnout service’: Qld cops paid $72m in overtime in just seven months AUSTRALIA: Government documents have revealed taxpayers forked out a whopping $72m for police overtime in just seven months, a $11m jump compared to the same period last year. The Courier Mail (Australia) - Subscription at source 21/9/2024 News Size isn’t everything: Understanding the relationship between police workforce and crime problems If and how policing affects crime has long been studied. On the relationship between police force size and crime, different authors come to different conclusions. This study examines the relationship between police resourcing, including workforce size, structure and stability over time using data for 42 police forces in the UK over a 13-year period. We construct two novel panel datasets. The first comprises measures of police workforce Size, Structure and Stability. The second provides measures of both crime frequency and crime severity. Issues of endogeneity make the modelling of the police-crime association complicated. Consequently, we analyse the data using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) model which is capable of forecasting a temporal sequence of the interdependencies between police-crime relationships. Changes in total police personnel play an important role in reducing both crime frequency and severity, but the findings are more nuanced than this. Results highlight that the structure and stability of police organisations are important although these impacts are not always the same for crime volume and crime severity. We find that increases in frontline (non-sworn) support staff are associated with reductions in crime, while turnover rates of police staff are associated with increases in crime. In contrast, changes to the number of sworn police officers do not appear to be a good predictor of crime volume. The findings suggest that investment in frontline support staff and the development of strategies to retain skills and knowledge by reducing staff turnover may be efficient approaches for Police Forces to maximise the impact on crime of their workforce in resource-pressed policing settings. While previous research has found that police force size has a limited effect on crime, our findings indicate that more nuanced measurements of police resourcing are necessary to understand how police impact upon crime risk. The idea of police forces using basic officer-to-population ratios to make staffing decisions appears outdated and over-simplistic. Journal of Criminal Justice 21/9/2024 Research article «622623624625626627628629630Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
