Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115261 total results. Showing results 13001 to 13020 «647648649650651652653654655Next ›Last » Public order policing: Gardaí show off new water cannon truck and riot gear REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí showed off one of their new water cannon trucks today alongside some new body armour for public order policing and a new, stronger kind of incapacitant spray. The Journal (Republic of Ireland) 9/6/2025 News Project NOLA facial recognition back on table for New Orleans police after prison break USA: A public safety disaster and an audacious jailbreak have police in New Orleans considering broader use of facial recognition technology. BiometricUpdate.com 9/6/2025 News Armed officer sues Police Scotland over suspension after TikTok Tallia Storm incident Steven Jones is taking Police Scotland to court after being suspended over an incident involving singer Tallia Storm. Daily Record 9/6/2025 News Ombudsman finds ACT Policing escalated some cases involving use of force AUSTRALIA: A review of cases involving the use of force by police in the ACT has found situations are being unnecessarily escalated by the "unprofessional behaviour" of officers. The ACT Ombudsman analysed more than 6,200 use-of-force reports recorded between January 2019 and December 2023. ABC News (Australia) 9/6/2025 News Britain’s police force isn’t fit for the 21st century In last Friday’s early evening rush hour, three police vehicles had parked by the side of the North Circular Road in west London to deal with an incident involving a car and a van. A woman was sitting on a foldaway camping chair, looking shocked. Beside her was a young, uniformed officer, diligently writing an account of what had happened in her notebook. As I drove past, I thought how, over the next few hours, those notes would have to be typed up onto a computer, along with any other crucial details she had jotted down by hand, while all the key information would also need to be transferred into multiple different databases. How much of the officer’s time would that take up back at the police station when she could be on the beat or responding to other emergencies? The Spectator 9/6/2025 Feature, Opinion Police blow £17 million on 300 diversity staff Good news for British bobbies: you are about to get a real-terms pay rise. Yes, that is right: Yvette Cooper has reportedly wrung the change out of Rachel Reeves, amid some eleventh-hour pay negotiations ahead of Wednesday’s spending review. But while few would begrudge those working hard some extra cash, Mr S is not alone in wondering whether the boys in blue really are spending all their sums effectively. The Spectator - Subscription at source 9/6/2025 Feature, Opinion Police officer who faked working from home by weighing down the letter Z on his laptop keyboard for more than 100 hours is banned from the force for life A police officer has been barred from the profession after he faked more than 100 hours of work by holding down the Z key on his keyboard. PC Liam Reakes was found to have committed gross misconduct in a tribunal at Avon and Somerset Police headquarters in Portishead today. He would have been dismissed without notice if he had not already resigned last month, Bristol Live reported. Mail Online 9/6/2025 News Forensic Science in England and Wales: Pulling Out of the Graveyard Spiral The Westminster Commission on Forensic Science was established by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice to investigate forensic science in England and Wales and its impact on miscarriages of justice. The commission’s findings are available now through a new report, Forensic Science in England and Wales: Pulling out of the Graveyard Spiral. The Westminster Commission on Miscarriages of Justice is co-chaired Professor Angela Gallop CBE and Lady Professor Sue Black. [PDF] All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice 9/6/2025 Report Yvette Cooper told to find savings elsewhere to protect spending on police Home secretary Yvette Cooper has been told by the Treasury to find savings from other parts of her budget in order to protect spending on the police, as haggling over the multiyear Whitehall spending review finally ended. Financial Times 9/6/2025 News Winnipeg police use of force reports, calls for service rose in 2024 CANADA: Winnipeg police officers reported more incidents involving use of force last year, along with an increase in calls for service compared to the five-year average. CTV News (Canada) 9/6/2025 News Westminster Commission co-chaired by the President publishes its findings on forensic science in England and Wales The Westminster Commission on Forensic Science, co-chaired by Professor Lady Sue Black, President of St John's College, and Professor Angela Gallop, has published its report highlighting the crisis in forensics which is at the heart of so many miscarriages of justice. St John's College Oxford 9/6/2025 News Garda numbers reach three-year high as HQ puts new tech on display REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Garda numbers now stand at 14,318 — the highest in three years, figures show. Official estimates suggest a further 360 student gardaí will graduate this year. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) - Subscription at source 9/6/2025 News Essex Police pioneers use of criminal behaviour orders to deter shoplifters A hundred shoplifters who have targeted stores across Essex are currently subject to special court orders known as criminal behaviour orders (CBOs) in a pioneering approach by the Essex Police specialist Business Crime Team. Police Professional 9/6/2025 News Predicting police contact: Exploring the impact of legal cynicism on residents’ willingness to contact the police Research on legal cynicism – the perception that the law and law enforcement officers are illegitimate, unresponsive, and ill-equipped – reveals a complex and heavily nuanced relationship between civilians’ perceptions of the police and their engagement with police services. While legal cynicism is said to reduce civilian crime reporting, it has not always been shown to dissuade civilians from contacting the police for help. Drawing upon data from the United States 2020 Police-Public Contact Survey, this study establishes legal cynicism as a facet of residents’ cultural repertories about the law and the legal system (i.e., a ‘toolkit’ residents draw on to guide their behaviour). Legal cynicism predisposes an unwillingness to contact the police for help in the future. This study grounds past scholarship by utilizing a specific measure for the three facets of legal cynicism, offers critical insight into the evolution of legal cynicism, and argues for practitioners to expand upon procedural justice strategies to improve police-community relations. The Police Journal: Theory Practice and Principles 9/6/2025 Research article ‘Justice at breaking point’ – it’s time to fund the whole system, not just policing, says PCCs. The Thames Valley and Hampshire and Isle of Wight police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are urging the Government to take “bold, system-wide action” in its spending review this Wednesday (June 11). Police Professional 9/6/2025 News Home Office may be forced to cut police numbers as result of Treasury deal Sources say cuts to force headcount remain ‘a possibility’ as Yvette Cooper last minister to reach spending agreement The Guardian 9/6/2025 News Police complaint cycles in Victoria: a case of smoke and mirrors? Since 1853, allegations of corruption, misconduct and misbehaviour have dogged police in Victoria, Australia. Using Smith’s ‘police complaint reform cycles’ (PCRC) this work identifies and traces what we term ‘discursive distortions’ in official inquiry, highlighting links between processes of official review and the cyclical nature of police malfeasance. We aim to show how the use of language in public reports issued by formal inquiries can work to hinder meaningful reform. Using a recent Victorian inquiry into police oversight, this work critically examines how various stakeholders’ submissions are rendered in the report. This paper argues that the report fails to be objective and gives an insufficient account of community submissions in reaching its conclusions. We demonstrate the mechanisms through which the views and experiences of subject matter experts and community lawyers are routinely ignored and obscured. We show how official inquiries into policing can reflect little or no meaningful engagement with independent stakeholder views and prioritise the status quo. We suggest that this is a reason why official inquiry into policing in Victoria has offered no impactful remedies to entrenched problems and might be best regrded as examples of ‘smoke and mirrors’ that have provided a mere veneer of possible meaningful responses. Current Issues in Criminal Justice 9/6/2025 Research article Police officer who faked working from home banned A police officer who held down keys on his laptop to make it look like he was working when he was not has been barred from policing. BBC 9/6/2025 News Officer dismissed over use of force on a football fan A West Midlands Police (WMP) officer has been dismissed after allegations of using excessive force during the arrest of a man at a Walsall football match were proven. Police Professional 9/6/2025 News ACT police can do more to ‘lessen harm’ when using force, watchdog finds AUSTRALIA: Territory police can do more to "lessen harm" when using force and interacting with the public, according to a major watchdog investigation. The Canberra Times (Australia) - Subscription at source 9/6/2025 News «647648649650651652653654655Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
