Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104893 total results. Showing results 1901 to 1920 «9293949596979899100Next ›Last » Child Q’s school strip-search was gross misconduct Two Metropolitan Police officers who conducted the "humiliating" strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl committed gross misconduct, a panel has found. BBC 26/6/2025 News Misconduct hearing into search of Child Q delivers findings Gross misconduct and misconduct has been proven for three officers involved in the search of Child Q. Metropolitan Police Service 26/6/2025 News Gross misconduct proven for two Met officers in strip search of Child Q at Hackney School Two Met officers involved in the search involving the exposure of intimate parts of a 15-year-old Black girl at a school in Hackney, east London in 2020, have been found to have committed gross misconduct, following an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) 26/6/2025 News London police use force against Black, Arab, Indigenous men disproportionately, data shows CANADA: Data comes from stats gathered by the province from local police services. CBC News (Canada) 26/6/2025 News Police guarding Parliament think new security fence is ‘dangerous’ A new security fence, installed to protect the parliamentary estate, is "dangerous", police believe, according to a Tory grandee. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News Four charged after B.C. police uncover arsenal of guns, 20,000 rounds of ammunition CANADA: Police in Victoria say two men and two women have been charged after the seizure of an arsenal of assault-style weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition and 4.5 kilograms of cocaine. Blue Line (Canada) 26/6/2025 News Man gets six year sentence for stabbing neighbourhood officer The Cambridgeshire neighbourhood officer was taken to hospital where he was treated for a deep laceration to his left forearm. He has since returned to work. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News B.C. Public Safety Minister says program funding targets repeat violent offenders CANADA: Public Safety Minister Garry Begg says the provincial government is boosting funding for a policing program launched in 2023, claiming the initiative led to more than 2,600 criminal charges with a focus on repeat violent offenders. Blue Line (Canada) 26/6/2025 News Young garda stabbed in hand after confronting armed suspect in Dublin burglary REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A man has been arrested after a garda responding to a report of a burglary in Co Dublin was stabbed. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 26/6/2025 News Garda (20s) injured after responding to robbery in Blanchardstown REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A garda has been injured after responding to a robbery at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre in Dublin. Breaking News (Republic of Ireland) 26/6/2025 News Police Scotland issues interim transgender search guidance Interim guidance around searching of transgender persons and searching by transgender officers and staff has been issued by Police Scotland. Police Professional 26/6/2025 News Garda stabbed after responding to attempted pub burglary in Blanchardstown REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A crazed man stabbed a garda in the hand after officers responded to a break-in at a pub in Blanchardstown last night. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 26/6/2025 News Met officers’ strip-search of black girl at school was gross misconduct, panel finds Disciplinary hearing finds two police officers’ search of Child Q, 15, was disproportionate and humiliating The Guardian 26/6/2025 News Police disposal of miner strike files ‘worrying’ A police force's disposal of documents relating to the miners' strike is "deeply worrying", the leader of the House of Commons has said. BBC 26/6/2025 News The proposed Strong Borders Act gives police new invasive search powers that may breach Charter rights The proposed Strong Borders Act, a bill currently before the Canadian Parliament, includes measures that will enable police to obtain information about an individual’s online activity by obtaining a warrant on a lower standard of reasonable suspicion of a crime, instead of probable cause; Thompson Rivers University Professor of Law Robert Diab argues that the new powers will turn tech companies such as Google, Apple, Shaw and Telus into agents of the state. Policing Insight 26/6/2025 Analysis, Feature, Opinion A tale of two statements: Top cop’s departure-news wrangle revealed AUSTRALIA: Amid the news hurricane, the relatively recent debacle surrounding the search for Victoria’s new top cop feels a bit like a distant memory. But CBD most certainly remembers the game of hot potato in the months leading up to the hiring of New Zealander Mike Bush. The Age (Australia) - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News The man’s head injury could be seen on CCTV. Police refused to call an ambulance AUSTRALIA: A senior police officer's “unconscious racism” led him to ignore the man's injuries, amounting to serious misconduct, the police watchdog has found. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News Doing discretion – authority, ambiguity and control in German traffic stops This article explores how police discretion is enacted, constrained, and withheld during routine traffic stops in Germany. While traffic stops appear mundane, they are key sites of police intervention where authority is negotiated, suspicion constructed, and legal procedures strategically mobilised. Rather than treating discretion as a static legal margin, this study conceptualises it as a situational and procedural practice embedded in institutional routines, cultural typifications, and interactional dynamics. The analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork with urban patrol units and uses trans-sequential analysis to examine how police actions unfold in situ. This method allows for a detailed reconstruction of how officers identify enforcement and reference problems, initiate diagnostic sequences, and manage uncertainty through case work. Particular attention is paid to how discretion is exercised within the step-by-step construction of a ‘proper police case’. Three key patterns emerge: (1) discretion as a tool for negotiated order, where officers pragmatically align with compliant behaviour; (2) discretion under resource constraints, where fallback routines are used to resolve ambiguity; (3) the non-use of discretion, where rigid authority is enacted in response to defiance or typified deviance. The findings show that discretion is not a space of freedom, but a methodical intervention that enables officers to construct coherence under institutional and situational constraints. Discretion contributes to the reproduction of order – but also to the reproduction of inequality – when it is guided by typifications, vague legal categories, and unequal access to interpretive agency. The study highlights the need for greater transparency and reflexivity in routine policing. Policing and Society 26/6/2025 Research article Searches will be based on person’s biological sex but requests for ‘lived gender’ searches considered Police Scotland searches of transgender people will be undertaken on the basis of biological sex, while attempts to accomodate requests for an officer of their 'lived gender' to carry out the search will also be made, interim guidance by the force has said. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News CoP announces national rollout of Neighbourhood Policing Programme The College of Policing (CoP) has today announced the rollout of its Neighbourhood Policing Programme, which will see officers specially trained to fight crime in their local communities across England and Wales. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 26/6/2025 News «9293949596979899100Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
