Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103010 total results. Showing results 18341 to 18360 «914915916917918919920921922Next ›Last » One complaint a minute being made under shambolic Scots hate law as almost 8,000 complaints leave police swamped Police in Scotland have been swamped with almost 8,000 complaints since the introduction of Humza Yousaf's shambolic hate crime laws, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Control room officers are battling to keep on top of the backlog – equivalent to one grievance every minute. Mail Online 6/4/2024 News Ottawa police officer charged with impaired driving after crash CANADA: An Ottawa police officer has been charged with impaired and dangerous driving after getting into a crash while off-duty on St. Patrick's Day. CBC News (Canada) 6/4/2024 News Indigenous deaths in custody haunt Australia AUSTRALIA: "It's a pain you can't describe," Raylene Nixon says quietly. "It's something that you feel deeper than a broken heart - it's pain in your soul." In 2021, she sat in a sterile room and watched Australian police footage of her son's death in real time, as he gasped for air and pleaded for help. BBC 6/4/2024 News Advocates want more of a conversation on the mental health impact on frontline police AUSTRALIA: On January 8, a police officer took her own life at the Port Adelaide Police Station. Her suicide was the third by a serving officer in South Australia in the past six months, and is part of a growing toll within police ranks. This year, there have been three other deaths by suicide within the force across Australia – two in Victoria and one in Western Australia. Research by WA's police union has found the rate of suicide among serving officers has more than doubled in the past decade, and now surpasses the rate of the general population. ABC News (Australia) 6/4/2024 News Cheshire Police officer jailed after having sex during 999 call-out A police officer who had sex with a woman after responding to a 999 call has been jailed. Jordan Masterson will serve three and a half years behind bars after being convicted of misconduct in public office. Runcorn and Widnes World 6/4/2024 News Scotland’s hate crime law will force police to make cuts, warn senior officers Control room staff already on overtime as they struggle to handle volume of complaints under new legislation The Telegraph - Subscription at source 6/4/2024 News Auckland city business boss presses case for downtown police station NEW ZEALAND: Auckland's central city business association says a police station downtown is still necessary to crack down on crime. The calls for an increased police presence in the city surged last year, with the association Heart of the City expected to spend more than $1.3 million on safety in the year ending June. 1 News (New Zealand) 6/4/2024 News Death of mother set on fire by ex ‘could have been avoided with police info’ A sheriff has ruled that Police Scotland’s concerns about Kevin Marks’s mental health should have been shared with the NHS and Ann Drummond, who he killed The Times - Subscription at source 6/4/2024 News SA union unaware of Alice Springs police deployment AUSTRALIA: South Australia Police says there's nothing new in sending its officers out of state after union officials demanded answers and claimed they weren't consulted ahead of the Alice Springs deployment. The Canberra Times (Australia) 6/4/2024 News Handling hate claims ‘needs 40 cops a day on overtime’, says Police Federation as force is deluged by complaints following controversial new Scottish law Dozens of police officers are being paid overtime every day to deal with the deluge of complaints sparked by Scotland's new hate crime law. It is understood up to 40 police officers have been called in to do extra hours every day since Monday in a bid to wade through all the reports submitted. Each officer is being paid time and a third, sparking fears the overtime costs could end up taking hundreds of thousands of pounds out of an already overstretched Mail Online 6/4/2024 News Police Scotland criticised over mistake in new hate crime training Inconsistency in legislation wording involving ‘and’ and ‘or’ prompts doubt in law enforcement The Telegraph - Subscription at source 6/4/2024 News How facial recognition cameras are catching rape, robbery and drug suspects: Interactive map shows where Met Police are making arrests thanks to the ‘biggest breakthrough in crime-fighting since DNA’ Facial recognition technology has been hailed as the 'biggest breakthrough in crime-fighting since DNA', by the Metropolitan Police chief who introduced the cameras into London a year ago. An interactive map created by MailOnline shows how the high-tech cameras have helped catch rape, robbery and drug suspects in each London borough. Analysis of Met Police data shows the facial recognition cameras have led to the arrests of 152 alleged criminals - nearly one every two hours - since they were first deployed in April 2023. Mail Online 6/4/2024 Analysis, Feature Police Scotland ‘may be forced to make cuts’ due to hate crime burden Police Scotland may be forced to reduce services or make cuts due to the burden of dealing with controversial new hate crime legislation, it has been claimed. The Scotsman - Subscription at source 6/4/2024 News New police CCTV van in Plymouth aims to improve safety Police have acquired a new CCTV van in an effort to improve public safety in Plymouth. The van has two high-definition 360-degree cameras that can be set to a height of 8m (26ft) and can capture activity up to 6.2 miles (10km) away from the van, police said. BBC 6/4/2024 News Number of fleeing driver deaths, crashes rose after police abandoned non-pursuit policy NEW ZEALAND: Police are standing by their fleeing driver policy, despite a rise in crashes and deaths in the year since the guidelines changed. Commissioner Andrew Coster rung in the changes in May 2023 allowing officers to chase more offenders. The decision came three years after they effectively chose to stop pursuits, for public safety reasons in 2020. Newshub (New Zealand) 6/4/2024 News Significant seizure increases in Class A drugs and weapons Policing leads have praised the country’s specialist organised crime units for significantly increasing their seizures of class A drugs and dangerous weapons in the last three years. Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) 5/4/2024 News Complaint made against three detectives in controversial murder case NEW ZEALAND: The Independent Police Complaints Authority (IPCA) is investigating the actions of three detectives involved in a controversial murder inquiry. Palmiro MacDonald was murdered in 2016, and police subsequently charged three men with killing him. However, charges were eventually dismissed against all three, amid concerns police hadn’t disclosed crucial evidence and their use of unreliable prison informants. The murder remains unsolved. The fallout from the case saw the High Court, in November 2023, order police and high-profile Palmerston North Crown Solicitor Ben Vanderkolk each pay $20,000 costs for their conduct. The Post (New Zealand) 5/4/2024 News Police officer’s texts found to be gross misconduct A former police officer who texted a fellow detective to say two colleagues who were late to a briefing got away with it because they were black, committed gross misconduct, a tribunal has ruled. BBC 5/4/2024 News Gardai hit back after recruitment advert for South Australia Police parked outside Limerick station REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí attached to Limerick's Henry Street weren't “overly impressed” when a van appeared outside the station. Gardaí in Limerick were not “overly impressed” after a recruitment advert for South Australia Police was placed outside a garda station in the city centre. Irish Mirror (Republic of Ireland) 5/4/2024 News Serious Disruption Prevention Order powers come into force today The orders are designed to prevent individuals from repeatedly causing serious disruption at protests. 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