Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115411 total results. Showing results 16941 to 16960 «844845846847848849850851852Next ›Last » Julia Jaeger: ‘Without enlightened chief officers, we won’t have true diversity’ Ahead of International Women’s Day, International Association of Women Police (IAWP) President Julia Jaeger spoke to Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons about the continuing problems of misogyny and discrimination in the workplace, the need to revisit the gender agenda, and the work that will be going on at the IAWP annual conference later this year to advance gender equality. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 7/3/2025 Feature, Interview A Primer on the Design, Delivery, and Evaluation of De-escalation Training: Explaining the Impactful Findings from the Tempe Smart Policing Initiative Though de-escalation training is popular in policing, the evidence base is quite limited and mixed. The inconsistency in findings highlights the need for a more targeted investigation of the key issues that may increase the likelihood of delivering “effective” de-escalation training. In the current study, we seek to address this gap by exploring in detail the design, delivery, and evaluation of de-escalation training in Tempe, Arizona, and critical features of each stage that contributed to positive training effects. With design, we highlight the importance of identifying internal champions; seeking input from all relevant internal units; drawing selectively from other trainings; grounding the training in officer safety and wellness; and working with curriculum developers. With delivery, we feature the value of body-worn camera footage as a training tool; careful selection of trainers; and use of refresher training. For evaluation, we point to a rigorous randomized controlled trial design and reliance on a diverse set of data sources and outcomes that capture the nuanced impact of training. We also note how our approach here aligns well with Implementation Science, a paradigm that emphasizes the study of program process and methods for promoting the development of evidence-based practice. To that end, we use the Tempe SPI experience as a foundation for a De-escalation Training Checklist that details the key issues law enforcement agencies should consider when designing, delivering, and evaluating de-escalation training. Justice Evaluation Journal - Subscription at source 7/3/2025 Research article The Smart Policing Initiative: 15 Years of Evidence-Based Innovation in Policing Practice Police agencies continuously develop new and innovative strategies, such as integrating gunshot detection technologies into dispatch systems, strengthening crime analysis and data system integration, adapting problem-oriented policing practices to local contingencies, and collaborating with local health and social service organizations to address substance abuse. Over the past 15 years, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), in partnership with CNA’s Center for Justice Research and Innovation, has supported law enforcement agencies and their research partners across the country in implementing and evaluating innovative, evidence-based policing approaches through the Smart Policing Initiative (SPI). SPI supports the development and implementation of innovative policing strategies as well as research partnerships that result in rigorous evaluations of strategies to advance effective and efficient policing practices. This article examines SPI’s history, challenges, and accomplishments since its inception in 2009, and it explores some major themes in policing and policing research across SPI initiatives, including: the integration of data-driven practices into police agencies, reductions in violent crime, technology advancements, improved crime analysis capabilities in police agencies, and the evolution of research partnerships. We also note challenges faced, addressed, and resolved, by SPI sites through collaboration between funded law enforcement agencies, research partners, and CNA technical assistance providers. Justice Evaluation Journal - Subscription at source 7/3/2025 Research article EU Drug Markets: In-depth analysis Illicit drugs are big business. They are one of the main profit-generating activities of organised crime and are estimated to represent around one-fifth of global crime proceeds. 'EU Drug Markets: In-depth analysis' is the fourth comprehensive overview of illicit drug markets in the EU by the EMCDDA and Europol and takes a broad view of these markets from production and trafficking, to distribution and use. Designed as a series of modules, each focuses on the market for a particular drug. European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) 7/3/2025 Report Police ‘acted reasonably’ by launching hate crime investigation into journalist Allison Pearson, review finds Police 'acted reasonably' when they launched a hate crime investigation into a social media post by journalist Allison Pearson, a review has concluded. The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) launched a probe into Essex Police's actions after the Daily Telegraph columnist complained she felt 'bullied and threatened' when officers visited her home on Remembrance Sunday in November 2024. Mail Online 7/3/2025 News Youth crime drops as nation-leading knife laws pass Parliament AUSTRALIA: South Australia’s Parliament has passed the nation’s toughest knife laws, with new national statistics confirming South Australia has the lowest youth crime rate of any state in the nation. Government of South Australia 7/3/2025 News NT Police Association calls for commissioner Michael Murphy to resign following ICAC findings AUSTRALIA: The Northern Territory Police Association says commissioner Michael Murphy should resign, after he revealed himself as the subject of an investigation by the territory's corruption watchdog. The NT Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) found an unnamed public officer acted improperly by helping a long-term friend apply for a high-level job, for which they were on the recruitment panel. ABC News (Australia) 7/3/2025 News Magistrate criticises ACT police over delayed investigation into sexual offence by Uber driver AUSTRALIA: Uber driver Muhammad Cheema, 28, is found guilty of touching the breast of a woman he was driving to an end-of-year formal with a group of friends. Magistrate Jane Campbell criticised police, saying although the victim reported the incident within days, police did not investigate further until after a review into why so few reports were leading to charges. ABC News (Australia) 7/3/2025 News Information analysis in criminal investigations: methods, challenges, and computational opportunities processing unstructured text In criminal investigations, information is often overlooked due to the manual analysis of vast amounts of text, and the lack of a framework for information analysis. In this paper, we aim to present such a framework by unveiling an experience-based approach derived from the National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) in Norway. This framework comprises categorization, thematization and exploration. Through analysis of 742,135 investigative tasks, we find that the major information sources are Interviews and Digital Evidence. From this, the main contribution of this work is a foundation for bridging our framework to computational methods focusing on unstructured text arising from these sources. We map state-of-the-art computational methods within Artificial Intelligence to facilitate the workflow of the proposed framework. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 7/3/2025 Research article ‘They all had their feet up on the desks… quite Gene Hunt’ To mark International Women's Day, and shine a light on how policing has moved with the times, Police Oracle caught up with Tam Whipp to reflect on her journey as an Essex Police WPC to an Inspector in Wiltshire. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 7/3/2025 Feature, Interview, Opinion Deliberate police vehicle ramming: a growing and alarming mode of assault More than 240 officers have been injured after their vehicle was deliberately rammed by an offender Police Oracle figures have shown. Claire Sweeting and Minia Bennie report. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 7/3/2025 News Global Economic Crime Survey highlights UK companies’ use of data analytics to tackle fraud and corruption The latest findings of the PwC Global Economic Crime Survey reveal that UK companies are in many instances ahead of their international counterparts in using data analytics to tackle crimes such as procurement fraud, supply chain fraud and corruption – but the consultants warn that there is still significant room for improvement, particularly at a time when perception of public sector corruption in the UK is at an all-time high, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 7/3/2025 Analysis, Feature Home Secretary honours police staff heroes Police staff from across the country were honoured at a special ceremony yesterday held at the Senior Police Staff Network conference. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 7/3/2025 News Over £48 million worth of drugs seized in cannabis crackdown More nationwide police action has removed cannabis with the street value of £48,328,000, disrupting organised criminal gangs. National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) 7/3/2025 News NSW Police body-worn camera system riddled with deficiencies, report reveals AUSTRALIA: A report by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) has exposed significant failures in the NSW Police Force's use of body-worn video (BWV) cameras. Law Society Journal (Australia) 7/3/2025 News Police stop referring people to Destiny Church’s Man Up and Legacy programmes NEW ZEALAND: The police have stopped referring people to Destiny Church's Man Up and Legacy programmes after members had disrupted a number of events at the Auckland Pride Festival last month. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 7/3/2025 News Police are failing to deliver a minimum standard of service, according to the UK public The UK government has doubled the additional funding for neighbourhood policing in England and Wales to £200m. This is to support its commitment to putting 13,000 new police officers on the streets. Emergency Services Times 7/3/2025 News Cache of blank firing guns handed in to police More than 40 guns which fire blanks were handed into Surrey Police and Sussex Police following a four-week firearms amnesty. BBC 7/3/2025 News How one force plans to meet the 2030 EV deadline South Wales Police is taking a “slow but steady approach” to reaching the 2030 deadline when no more petrol or diesel cars will be sold. Emergency Services Times 7/3/2025 News Police Digital Service plans procurement framework for case management system The Police Digital Service (PDS) has signed investigative technology company Black Rainbow as the single supplier on a procurement framework for a dynamic decision and case management system. UKAuthority.com 7/3/2025 News «844845846847848849850851852Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
