Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115258 total results. Showing results 12541 to 12560 «624625626627628629630631632Next ›Last » Review calls for urgent action to address lack of awareness of how neurodivergent people present in the CJS A new review published by Clinks and researched by the Neurodivergence in Criminal Justice Network has highlighted a “pervasive lack of awareness and understanding of how neurodivergent people present” within the UK criminal justice system, and sets out a raft of measures to overcome the significant barriers they experience, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 19/6/2025 Analysis, Feature Community guardians scheme to identify and respond to child exploitation in Cleveland A new scheme in Cleveland will see members of the local community trained to help identify and support children at risk of criminal exploitation. Emergency Services Times 19/6/2025 News Garda assaulted wife in ‘safest place on earth’, court told REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A 48-year-old garda will be sentenced later this year for assaulting his wife in her childhood home with their young children in the room. RTÉ (Republic of Ireland) 18/6/2025 News Forensic science cuts will mean ‘more miscarriages of justice’ An expert report cites lost and flawed evidence, a system that favours the prosecution and the urgent need for an impartial national institute The Times - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 News Rewiring the thin blue line: can technology help keep us safe? Police officers, academics and commissioners are at odds on live facial recognition’s potential to help tackle crime Holyrood Magazine 18/6/2025 Feature It’s wrong to say rank and file gardaí have treated Drew Harris unfairly REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The retired Detective Chief Superintendent says Harris was just the wrong man for the job of Garda Commissioner, at the wrong time. The Journal (Republic of Ireland) 18/6/2025 Feature, Opinion Police in England and Wales to get more money – but increasing funding won’t necessarily mean less crime Police spending will rise by a real-terms 2.3% per year between now and 2028-29, the government announced in its latest spending review, drawn from local council tax. The government says this will help its mission to put 13,000 neighbourhood police on the streets, and “keep communities safe”. The Conversation 18/6/2025 Analysis, Feature The Fight Against Crime and Disorder: Turning Round Greater Manchester Police Policy Exchange invites you to The Fight Against Crime and Disorder: Turning Round Greater Manchester Police with Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson QPM Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police in conversation with Lord Godson Director, Policy Exchange. Policy Exchange 18/6/2025 Feature, Video Reflecting on the past to transform the future: exploring the role of history in policing reform By its very nature, policing focuses on the present – dealing with immediate demand and responding to emergencies. However, this leaves little space for reflecting on or learning from the past. Changes in policing practice often occur as a reaction to an incident rather than through a planned programme of reform. This paper argues that this reactive change process has contributed to a cycle of scandals in policing, such as around misconduct, use of force and discrimination. It asserts that sustainable reform can best occur through empowering police officers to develop a historical perspective – thinking critically and strategically about where policing is and how it got there. This paper proposes a new framework through which the study of police history can be used, not only to inform current practice, but to improve the professionalism and legitimacy of the service and asks what can and should be done to embed the study of history into police education. At a time when new technological developments mean change is happening with increasing rapidity, it is more important than ever for policing to learn the lessons of the past to better avoid the mistakes of the future. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article Non-crime hate incidents should be scrapped, says ‘anti-woke’ police chie Sir Stephen Watson says the policy is now ‘past its sell-by date’ as he also hits out at the impact of human rights legislation on policing The Telegraph - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 News Windsor Police launch first phase of ‘next generation’ 911 network CANADA: The Windsor Police Service has made the move to the Next Generation 9-1-1 network in the first phase of an upgrade to the 9-1-1 system. The move from the legacy 9-1-1 network and systems marks a big leap forward in how the Windsor Police Emergency 9-1-1 Centre delivers life-saving services. While the way callers contact 9-1-1 remains unchanged, the new technology will provide faster, more secure, and accurate data for 911 communicators in an age of smartphones. AM800 (Canada) 18/6/2025 News Met officers using 16,000 hours to ‘sit with children waiting for children’s services’ That’s the verdict of Deputy Commissioner Matt Jukes, who was mapping out how the force will cope after police funding was announced earlier this month through the Government’s long-awaited Spending Review. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 News £250,000 drug report giving police ‘even more complexities and issues’ if cannabis legalised The London Drugs Commission (LDC) released a 320-page report, titled The cannabis conundrum: a way forward for London’, last month, which included removing the Class B substance from the Misuse of Drugs Act, and instead regulating it under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/6/2025 News Race and lack of accountability involved in Child Q strip search, tribunal hears A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, on December 2020 after being wrongly being accused of carrying cannabis. The Independent 18/6/2025 News Met Police tutor dismissed after biting student on neck and touching her thigh Pc Chris Lee was a Street Duties instructor/tutor on one of the force’s Borough Command Units. The Independent 18/6/2025 News ‘We believe our police are careful not to unduly harass you ladies and gentlemen’ – an examination of the relationship between the police of Cheshire and the motoring public, 1896–1939 In the year ending June 2023, magistrates’ courts in England and Wales dealt with a total of 711,000 summary motoring offences (Gov.UK, [2023a]. Criminal Justice Statistics Quarterly June 2023. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2023/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-june-2023-html.), whilst the total number of motoring-related fixed penalty notices issued in England and Wales for the year ending December 2022 exceeded 2.8 million (Gov.UK [2023b]. Police powers and procedures. Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/other-pace-powers-year-ending-march-2023/police-powers-and-procedures-other-pace-powers-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2023#fixed-penalty-notices-and-other-outcomes-for-motoring-offences.). Such offences are a major part of the workload of the police today, but relatively little has been written about the earliest such interactions between police and the motoring public. This article examines specifically the work of the police forces of Cheshire regarding their relationship with the ever-increasing motoring public in the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on the interactions between the police and that section of the burgeoning middle-class who readily embraced the use of privately-owned motor cars. This rapid growth brought with it a concomitant increase in friction between the motor-owning population and the police. Such interactions highlight the practical problems faced by the police officer at work together with their relationship with a sector of the population with whom they would have previously had little contact on a professional basis as offenders. The article will show that police officers frequently had to negotiate their way around such deferential attitudes in order to enforce the ever-increasing number of laws being passed regarding motor car use and the ways in which they behaved towards their perceived social superiors. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation This article demonstrates how historical and longitudinal inquiry – including a deep dive into archival sources – can add to our understanding of the processes of change and how they happen within the policing organisation. Using frameworks adapted from Feminist Institutionalism, it identifies variations in the type and pace of change across time, shows that trajectories were uneven and not one way, and explains how historical actors have operated within (and interacted with) institutional and contextual parameters in gendered ways and with gendering effects. Focusing on the debates surrounding the introduction, implementation and mobilisation of the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act (and equivalent legislation for Northern Ireland), it analyses the strategies and tools used by exogenous actors, relationships with internal actors, and capacity to produce internal change. Concentrating on the 1970s–1990s, it sets this within the broader trajectory of women’s appointment as police officers from 1915, the layering in of the separate structure of Policewomen’s Departments, and the work of senior female officers and members of the inspectorate in effecting slow, gradualist and pragmatic expansion of numbers and remit prior to the 1970s. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article The ‘Peelian Principles’: their historical and contemporary veracity Both popular and ‘official’ sources posit that a set of nine definitive principles were authored to shape the working practices of the new Metropolitan Police (and all subsequent British forces) on its foundation in 1829 by Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel. These are colloquially referred to as the ‘Peelian Principles’ or ‘Peel’s Principles’. Today they are taught to all new police officers on the Police Entry Qualifications Framework (PEQF); as well as venerated by senior officers and policing inspectorates. Revisionist history, however, demonstrates that these nine commandments are, in all likelihood, an invention of the mid-twentieth century, apparently based on a summary of ideas extrapolated from Peel’s (alongside joint Commissioners Charles Rowan and Richard Mayne’s) early writings regarding police functions. This article intends to build on this insight into their origins through an examination of their relevance and veracity of whether they could have existed as codified in the first century of British policing at all; alongside whether they could or do hold true today. It seeks to do this by examining the historical context of policing in the Victorian era in relation to the Principles; whilst concurrently examining contemporary policing in the same manner. It concludes that whilst some of the principles can be examined in both eras, there are significant questions around their validity during both timeframes, thus raising questions of whether they should be placed on the pedestal they currently are. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article A complete turnaround: police and gay men 1950–2010 The remarkable turnaround within policing in England and Wales between 1950 and 2010 in relation to gay and bisexual men reflects both the change within society as well as legislation requiring equality and diversity. Change came about largely because the police service had to respond to changes outside their organisation, but latterly some change has been driven from within the organisation. The changes have enabled some gay and bisexual men to flourish within the police force and secure the confidence of people who in the past had good reason to fear the police. It has also given lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people more confidence to report attacks on them. However, beneath the broad brush headlines, there is a complex history with many variations, particularly in the period 1950–1990. What may have happened in one police force, or even one police district, is not necessarily replicated in another force or area. Other than in North America, few detailed historical studies of police operating in this field have been published. Based on research into official archives, contemporary reports, first-hand accounts of retired police officers and examination of the reporting of cases, the author examines the changes over a sixty-year period in the way the police approached homosexuality both within society, as well as within the police service itself, thus providing a short history of this theme. Policing and Society 18/6/2025 Research article A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note This research note provides an exploratory analysis of a remarkable – and broadly available – set of documents from the early twentieth century. This preliminary study examined one month of police call logs and warrant books from Pensacola, Florida, in December 1912. Combining perspectives from history, geography, and police practice, the authors integrated these records with digitised spatial data using Geographic Information System (GIS). The analysis revealed significant racial disparities in arrest patterns, unexpected temporal trends in policing activity, and compelling spatial concentrations of law enforcement interactions. This project suggests the potential of applying modern analytical techniques to historical police datasets in order to yield meaningful insights into the evolution of policing practices and their societal impacts. It highlights the wealth of untapped historical arrest records available for similar studies across the United States, suggesting avenues for future comparative research that bridges historical analysis with contemporary policing concerns. 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