Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 116125 total results. Showing results 121 to 140 «34567891011Next ›Last » ‘Disappointed’ NPCC reflect on police pay award that is ‘above inflation’ On Wednesday, the Government announced that a 3.5 percent pay award was in place for officers of all ranks from September 2026. The pay award comes after recommendations from the Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB) and the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB). The PRRB had recommended an increase of 3.9 percent for all ranks up to and including chief superintendent, but Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood chose a lower figure. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 16/7/2026 News Derbyshire Constabulary rated as a Tier Two force by police watchdog Derbyshire Constabulary has been rated as a Tier Two force, as part of a new Policing Performance system, introduced by the watchdogs. The system replaces the previous monitoring process, with forces assigned a level, according to severity and impact of performance concerns. Derbyshire Times 16/7/2026 News Surrey Police will get support to improve on minor issues A new Policing Performance System was introduced in April 2026 to assess and improve police performance across England and Wales by providing transparent and consistent assessments and facilitating earlier support. Surrey Police has been assigned to Level Two in this system, which allows for enhanced support to address ongoing performance issues. Rayo 16/7/2026 News Force needs to ‘improve standard of investigations’ The Devon and Cornwall Police force has been told it will receive "enhanced support" following an assessment by the policing inspectorate. BBC 16/7/2026 News New Policing Performance System Under a new HMICFRS Policing Performance System, Lincolnshire Police has been placed in Level Three of a new tiered structure. The new performance system replaces ‘Scan’ and ‘Engage’, and it is the latter category of enhanced monitoring that the Force was placed in following the recording of several causes of concern as part of a routine inspection of the Force in late 2024. There are four levels escalating from Level One to Level Four (Special Measures). Level Three is defined by HMICRS as applying where a force has a single, critical and lasting issue, widespread or systemic performance concerns, or it fails to demonstrate meaningful improvements. Forces in Level Three will receive targeted support and intervention from the performance system and Chief Constables will develop improvement plans. Chief Constable Paul Gibson said:... Lincolnshire Police 16/7/2026 News Most Similar Forces RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: Updated Most Similar Forces tool groups police force areas using socio-economic data to benchmark crime rates and improve comparative analysis. This report updates the Most Similar Forces (MSF) method used to compare police force areas in England and Wales. It incorporates new data, refined statistical techniques and sector input to improve the accuracy and relevance of groupings for benchmarking crime and demand. Using socio-economic indicators, the model identifies groups of similar forces through feature selection, principal component analysis and distance-based measures. The findings show that these groupings provide a strong basis for comparing weighted crime rates, though their suitability varies by crime type and requires validation by users. Home Office 16/7/2026 Report The predictors of police demand: A rapid evidence review RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: Review enhances insight to inform decisions within crime and policing. Predictors are identified that explain changes in crime and non-crime demand. This rapid evidence review examines the main predictors of police demand across crime and non-crime activity, drawing on UK-based research. It highlights how socio-economic factors such as deprivation, unemployment and education, along with demographic and traffic environment characteristics, are linked to variation in demand. The findings show that demand is shaped by a combination of area factors (for example, population change and urban environment), individual risks (for example, substance use and mental health), and events (for example, political or sporting). While these relationships help explain patterns in crime and incidents, they are often correlational and vary by context. The review supports the development of more evidence-based models to predict and understand demand more effectively. Home Office 16/7/2026 Report Police Remuneration Review Body Report: 2026 England and Wales Recommendations from the Police Remuneration Review Body on police officers’ pay in England and Wales. This report sets out the PRRB’s analysis of evidence provided by relevant organisations and makes recommendations on the pay of police officers in England and Wales up to and including the chief superintendent rank. The Government responded to the report in Parliament. The PRRB provides independent advice to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary on the pay and allowances of police officers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to and including the rank of chief superintendent. Home Office 16/7/2026 Report Lincolnshire Police placed in Level Three of the Policing Performance System Every police force in England and Wales has been assigned a level under the new Policing Performance System for the first time, as part of a drive to support and sustain improvements across policing. There are four levels escalating from Level One to Level Four (Special Measures) – the highest level of performance concern. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has assigned Lincolnshire Police to Level Three, allowing the force to receive additional support so it can make progress against its outstanding causes of concern. Level Three applies where a force has a single, critical and lasting issue, widespread or systemic performance concerns, or it fails to demonstrate meaningful improvements. Forces in Level Three will receive targeted support and intervention from the performance system and chief constables will develop improvement plans. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 16/7/2026 News New Policing Performance System to support improvements Every police force in England and Wales has been assigned a performance level by the policing inspectorate for the first time, as part of a drive to support improvements across policing and increase public confidence and accountability. Forces will now be able to access support and intervention earlier, helping to make communities safer. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 16/7/2026 News Police Federation: Policing plunged in to further crisis as Government ignores recommendations of its own pay review body Government ignores independent pay recommendation and confirms 3.5% award. The Police Federation of England and Wales has accused the Government of “fatally undermining the credibility” of the police pay review process after rejecting the Police Remuneration Review Body's recommendation of a 3.9% pay award and instead imposing a lower 3.5% settlement. Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 16/7/2026 News When words paint the picture: accurate eyewitness IDs without visual imagery Police often ask a witness for a verbal description of a perpetrator’s face immediately after witnessing an event (e.g., Fahsing et al., 2004; Wells et al., 2021). A good description increases the likelihood that police will locate the suspect for later identification. However, this technique provides a conundrum for police as describing a face is shown to make identification from a lineup more difficult, a phenomenon called verbal overshadowing (Schooler & Engstler-Schooler, 1990). Verbal overshadowing occurs because either people are reluctant to make a lineup identification post description, or there is a disruption at retrieval where memory for the perpetrator’s face is impaired (Mickes & Wixted, 2015; Protzko et al., 2022). Concerns over the impact of this phenomenon in legal settings are well founded, however, whether verbal descriptions are detrimental to all witnesses is unknown. Some people have low or no visual imagery ability, (aphantasics; Zeman et al., 2015, 2020), and do not have pictures in their ‘minds’ eye’, thus, may not rely on visual mental representations. Without this reliance on mental pictures, aphantasics may rely upon verbal description to retrieve face recognition information. This project investigates whether mental imagery ability and/or verbal description of a perpetrator influence accurate lineup identifications. Psychology Crime and Law - Subscription at source 16/7/2026 Research article Police application of generative artificial intelligence: A scoping review Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has rapidly entered policing and law enforcement discourse, yet the evidence base concerning what has been tested and what outcomes have been reported remains absent. This study presents a scoping review of academic literature on the actual or theoretical application of GenAI in policing and law enforcement since the emergence of Transformer-based architectures in 2017. In total, 42 studies are examined and data was charted by function, policing context, GenAI model type, and methodological design. Results indicate a literature base dominated by benchmarking, simulation, and proxy evaluations, with only a small number of operational or practice-proximate comparative studies. The article analyses the studies thematically using ‘what works, what does not, and what appears promising’ framing, and finds that most evidence is best characterised as promising rather than conclusive. More consistent early capability signals appear in bounded, structured, and codifiable tasks such as information extraction, triage, and thematic coding, although these findings remain largely derived from benchmark, simulation, or proxy evaluations. In contrast, cognitively complex functions remain inconsistent and risk prone. The review highlights major gaps in independent evaluation, operational testing, geographic coverage, and governance assessment, and proposes a research agenda to strengthen the literature available. Journal of Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism 16/7/2026 Research article Police tech transformation is a ‘necessity’ that will need a ‘culture shift’, data focus and embedded human rights A new paper from the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, which draws on themes highlighted during a series of recent roundtables on police use of new and emerging technologies, warns that law enforcement needs to recognise digital transformation as a “necessity” that will also require a culture shift away from risk aversion, the safeguarding of human rights, and a focus on improving data if forces are to maximise the technology potential, reports Policing Insight’s Keith Potter. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 16/7/2026 Analysis, Feature The race to recruit the next officer: The York Regional Police recruitment process Inspector Lindsay Newlove and Karen Larkin explain how police recruitment has changed and why forces can no longer rely on candidates simply coming through the door. With competition rising across emergency services and younger generations engaging differently, the focus is now on outreach, mentoring and building interest much earlier. The video explores how York Regional Police is trying to create long-term pathways into policing, from youth information sessions and paid summer roles to student cadets, cadets, fitness support and female-focused recruitment through the 30 Forward campaign. The message throughout is that recruitment is no longer just about hiring today’s officers, but about building tomorrow’s workforce and helping candidates feel they belong before they even apply. PolicingTV 16/7/2026 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video The Role of Police in the Making of Forensic Science: The San José Police School, 1930–1959 In a wider discussion of "the CSI effect", it has become standard to say that deficiencies in forensic science have come about because the procedures and technologies developed as policing techniques outside of university-based scientific research. But this has not been examined as a historical question. Looking back at the teaching of forensic science within the Police School at San José State University, the first police school in the United States, it is possible to explore the role of police in the making of forensic science. Based on archival materials, including correspondence within the August Vollmer Papers and newspapers in San José and San Francisco, the analysis found that forensic science faculty at the Police School were PhD scientists who taught scientific methods, not police managers coaching recruits in techniques they invented; mistaken ideas, such as the lie detector, came from police techniques but also the scientists, who promoted the race science of anthropometric identification; and the Police School built a relationship with the local crime laboratory that brought the best forensic science had to offer. Police recruits learned the axiomatic understandings of forensic science—Locard's exchange principle and Kirk's concept of individualization—along with laboratory tests of crime scene evidence. The Police School improved forensic science from what it would have been without it, because in the San Francisco Bay area of the 1920s and 1930s the validity of forensic testimony in courts varied widely. Criminal Justice Review - Subscription at source 15/7/2026 Research article How effective is His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs at preventing and investigating internal corruption? His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is one of the largest employers in the UK. The organisation manages significant amounts of money, and its officers have access to taxpayers’ personal data. So HMRC must make sure it isn’t vulnerable to internal fraud and computer misuse. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services is responsible for inspecting some aspects of HMRC’s functions. We carry out our inspections of HMRC under the Revenue and Customs (Inspections) Regulations 2005. In 2023, HMRC commissioned us to inspect the effectiveness of HMRC’s counter‑corruption arrangements. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) 15/7/2026 Report Government confirms police pay award NPCC responds to the Government's announcement on police officer pay. The Government has today (15 July) announced a 3.5% pay award for officers of all ranks from September 2026 following recommendations from the Police Remuneration Review Body (PRRB) and the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB). Commenting on the announcement, NPCC Chair Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, said: National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 15/7/2026 News PSA responds to police pay announcement PSA National Secretary Warren Franklin has responded to today's government announcement confirming a 3.5% pay award for police officers:... Police Superintendents' Association (PSA) 15/7/2026 News APCC Chair welcomes fully funded police officer pay award The government has announced that police officers across all ranks are to receive a pay award of 3.5% from September 2026. 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