Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100664 total results. Showing results 19321 to 19340 «963964965966967968969970971Next ›Last » Police to host mini conference on race and identity-based data collection CANADA: The Waterloo Regional Police Service is hosting a mini-conference on its Race and Identity Based Data Collection Strategy. Cambridge Today (Canada) 18/1/2024 News Waterloo Regional Police welcome 15 new officers CANADA: Waterloo Region, Ontario – The Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) proudly welcomes Recruit Class #113 to its ranks at a badging ceremony at The Family Centre in Kitchener on January 19, 2024. Waterloo Regional Police (Canada) 18/1/2024 News Online gambling sites being used by money launderers: financial intelligence agency CANADA: Canada’s financial intelligence agency warns that illicit cash is being laundered through online gambling sites that provide a variety of ways to disguise shady funds. Blue Line (Canada) 18/1/2024 News Building trust: The critical role of public confidence in policing The fall in public trust and confidence has become an issue for policing in many jurisdictions, and recent research in Canada suggests the country’s law enforcement agencies have work to do; Vernon White, former Chief of Ottawa Police Service, and Joe Carlebach, former Hammersmith and Fulham councillor, explore the findings from the most recent surveys, and the efforts being made by a number of forces to rebuild public trust. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 18/1/2024 Feature, Opinion Minister for Justice secures approval to draft legislation to enhance Criminal Assets Bureau’s powers REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee TD, has announced plans for legislation to further strengthen the State’s ability to seize criminal assets. Government of Ireland 18/1/2024 News Policing Authority assessment of policing performance 2023 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: This Assessment of Policing Performance is the latest in a series of bi-annual reports produced by the Policing Authority assessing Garda SÃochána performance. [pdf] Policing Authority (Republic of Ireland) 18/1/2024 Report Policing Authority publishes review of 2023 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: The Policing Authority has today published its Review of 2023 which provides an overview of the breadth and depth of the work it has undertaken this past year. It highlights key areas of focus for the Authority’s oversight, as well as providing data relating to senior Garda appointments, research initiatives, and engagement. Policing Authority (Republic of Ireland) 18/1/2024 News Resilience Training Programs with Police Forces: A Systematic Review Through the course of their career, it is expected that police officers are exposed to stressful and emotionally challenging environments, which, combined with well-known organizational and occupational stressors, makes this professional class vulnerable to several psychological and medical conditions. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in developing intervention programs that seek to minimize the impact of the changing nature of police work within a changing society and promote skills that enable police officers to deal more effectively with the current and future challenges. Therefore, the aim of this review is to systematize resilience training intervention programs and characterize their format, content, and efficacy. For that purpose, we searched four databases for resilience programs delivered to the police. We reached a final sample of 32 articles from a total of 550 published studies. The articles considered were divided into three main groups: mindfulness-based resilience interventions (n = 13), neurobiological-based resilience interventions (n = 13), and other resilience training interventions that did not fit in the previous categories (n = 6). There was much inter-intervention variability, mainly concerning their structure and approach. However, the intervention programs were relatively uniform in the topics covered, such as psychoeducation, police scenario simulation, and debriefing. Nonetheless, most studies found positive outcomes on the variables of interest, predominantly clinical and performance indicators (e.g., stress, anxiety, decision-making). Subsequent research endeavors could aim to determine the most reliable measure outcome measures for resilience variables and intervention efficacy, as alongside identifying pivotal occupational factors crucial to a robust and impactful resilience intervention. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 18/1/2024 Research article Securitisation and spaces of terrorism in Kenya’s National Police Service counterterrorism discourse The northeastern and coastal counties of Kenya are characterised by a high prevalence of terrorism and counterterrorism conducted by the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab terror group and the country’s National Police Service, respectively. The National Police Service (NPS) is Kenya’s principal counterterrorism state agency. This article examines how the National Police Service online counterterrorism discourse constructs these two regions as spaces of terrorism. The article adopts the securitisation theory and a critical discourse analysis perspective to analyse the National Police Service discourse as speech acts hence securitising moves, The speech acts discursively construct the two regions as spaces of terrorism hence threats to physical and human security. The construction enables to the National Police Service to legitimise and implement urgent repressive counterterrorism measures. The conditions that facilitate the discursive construction of threats and acceptance of the speech acts are the marginalisation of the inhabitants and terrorism in the regions. The conclusion offers ways of mitigating the adverse effects of the NPS counterterrorism discourse. Critical Studies on Terrorism 18/1/2024 Research article Exploring the Association between Levels of Police Presence, Contact, and Perceptions of Police Legitimacy Our goal was to investigate how increased police presence and contact are related to police-community relations, and whether this relationship may be different for those who are more likely to be subject to targeted policing practices, especially those with preexisting lower procedural justice assessments, living in disadvantaged communities, and having prior experience with the criminal justice system. Increased police presence was related to higher police legitimacy assessments, while low quality contact was negatively associated with police legitimacy. Increased presence and positive contact with the police were related to improved attitudes towards the police for those living in disadvantaged neighborhoods and who had preexisting lower procedural justice assessments. The opposite relationship was found for those living in advantaged neighborhoods with more positive preexisting attitudes towards the police. Implementation of tactics that increase police presence and positive contact with the police could improve police-community relations in neighborhoods that are disadvantaged and have residents that see the police as procedurally unjust. Crime and Delinquency - Subscription at source 18/1/2024 Research article Delay to justice? Blame the closed doors of the courtroom The public would have greater confidence in our legal system if proceedings were more visible, writes Nazir Afzal The Times - Subscription at source 18/1/2024 Feature, Opinion Procedurally just policing and persons in behavioral crises: investigating public perceptions, stigma and emotion Purpose: The police often respond to persons who are not in direct violation of the law, but are rather undergoing behavioral crises due to mental illness or substance abuse disorders. The purpose of this study is to examine how police behavior influences civilian bystanders' emotional responses and perceptions of procedural justice (PPJ) when officers interact with these populations, which traditionally have been stigmatized in American culture. Design/methodology/approach: Using a factorial vignette approach, the authors investigate whether perceived public stigma moderates the relationship between police behaviors (i.e. CIT tactics, use of force) and PPJ. The authors also investigate whether emotional reactions mediate the relationship between police behaviors and PPJ. Findings: Regardless of suspect population (mental illness, substance use), use of force decreased participants' PPJ, and use of CIT tactics increased PPJ. These effects were consistently mediated by anger, but not by fear. Interactive effects of police behavior and perceived public stigma on PPJ were mixed. Originality/value: Fear and anger may operate differently as antecedents to PPJ. Officers should note using force on persons in behavioral crisis, even if legally justifiable, seems to decrease PPJ. They should weigh this cost pragmatically, alongside other circumstances, when making discretionary decisions about physically engaging with a person in crisis. Policing: An International Journal - Subscription at source 18/1/2024 Research article Number of shootings in Edmonton rose 34% in 2023: police CANADA: Edmonton police say the city saw a 34 per cent increase in the number of shootings in 2023. The Edmonton Police Service said in a media release Wednesday it recorded 221 shootings last year compared to 165 in 2022. CTV News (Canada) 18/1/2024 News Government closes a loophole that prevented police checks being run on JPs AUSTRALIA: Legislative amendments will give overseers of Queensland’s Justices of the Peace access to a police database to check for criminal histories and charges as the government moves to tighten notification processes. In Queensland (Australia) 18/1/2024 News Melbourne police officer facing three sexual assault charges AUSTRALIA: A Melbourne police officer has been charged with sexual assault following a string of alleged incidents in Melbourne's northern fringe. Police say the charges relate to four separate occurrences between 2020 and 2023. ABC News (Australia) 18/1/2024 News Spy agency keeps terror threat level at ‘low’ NEW ZEALAND: The NZSIS spy agency has kept the National Terrorism Threat Level at low, meaning a terrorist attack remains a realistic possibility but they don't know of any specific credible plots. In a statement, Director-General of Security Andrew Hampton said it was important to remember a low threat level did not mean an absence of threat. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 18/1/2024 News Inconsistent understanding of VAWG among NTE workers and officers research finds Academic research conducted by the Canterbury Centre for Policing Research, with involvement from Kent Police, has identified an inconsistent understanding of VAWG among NTE workers. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 18/1/2024 News CPS data summary Quarter 2 2023-2024 This Q2 data release covers the 3-month period July – September 2023, with the previous three quarters provided to illustrate trends. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) 18/1/2024 Report Suffolk Police plans £5.2m savings despite planned council tax rise A police force is planning £5.2m in savings over the next four years. BBC 18/1/2024 News Can police track your location from a phone call? Phone tracking and tracing in Australia AUSTRALIA: We’ve all seen in movies that classic scene where the criminal on-the-run makes a phone call to police, taunting them, only for officers to spring into gear and try to ‘trace the call’. Sydney Criminal Lawyers 18/1/2024 Feature «963964965966967968969970971Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
