Aiming for safety: the goal for football policing.
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POLICE PROFESSIONAL.
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Police Professional (No. 493, 18 February 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at the first HMIC PEEL report on Police legitimacy including stop and search and how forces deal with race, how Operation Hydrant is improving the investigation of historical child sex abuse cases, the argument for reducing the drink-driving alcohol limits below that set in Scotland, how sport can reduce the rate of re-offending amongst young people, how Susan Sumner's efforts in collating evidence in a murder case won her the top award for analysts in the UK, recent evidence on the benefits of using body worn video cameras and the launch of a website in County Durham and Darlington providing a source of help and information to children and parents to help combat child sexual exploitation. The main feature covers the policing of football matches and the strategies being deployed to counter a rise in the number of incidents of violence and maintain public order.
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Binary integration: when technology enables transformation
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Police Professional (No. 484, 03 December 2015.)
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This week's edition looks at the Comprehensive Spending Review and what the commitment to protect overall police spending until 2019/20 means for policing, how the Forecourt Eye online system is helping the police and community to tackle petrol station forecourt crimes, whether agencies or the private sector should take on some police functions so as to free officers for more necessary duties, a charity mission by Greater Manchester Police and Fire services working with the street children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and how Lincolnshire police and the University of Lincoln have formed a partnership offering students a volunteering pathway that may lead to a career in policing. The main feature covers an Excellence in Policing panel discussion on how the need to develop the technology to share information is a major barrier to the integration of agencies.
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Changing landscape: armed policing post-Paris.
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Police Professional (No. 486, 17 December 2015.)
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This week's edition looks at Edith Smith, the first warranted police woman in 1916 and Carole Phillips who started work in 1966, how Leicestershire police has introduced a rail safety briefing for its officers, Cheshire Constabularies new computer system for its control room, the new contracts awarded to EE and Motorola Solutions as part of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme, the police duty of care when Taser is deployed and two recent employment tribunal decisions regarding minimum standards of physical fitness. Criminal Law Week asks whether a prosecution can be started before the Attorney-General gives the necessary consent and when does a police officer sitting on a jury make the trial unfair. The main feature covers the changes in armed policing that may be required after the Paris terrorist attack and why armed police may become more visible.
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Cocktail of hotspots: mixing data on drink-related crime.
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Police Professional (No. 497, 17 March 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at how the "Policing the Night -Time Economy" report reveals that the Metropolitan Police Service needs to review the demand that bars and restaurants place on its resources in order to tackle crimes at night times amenities more effectively, how technology is enabling officers in Wiltshire to work from coffee shops, public buildings or home, the current role of police and crime commissioners and the proposals to increase their responsibilities, how improvements to DNA profiling over the course of 8 years led to the conviction of the murderer of Georgina Edmonds, the award of further contracts to CSC by the Metropolitan Police for application management services and the management of two of its critical data centres and the new telephone service in Lancashire enabling victims to report Islamophobic hate crime. Criminal Law Week asks whether a drug dealer and his customer are guilty of money laundering. The main feature covers how the targeted response developed to tackle crime in the night-time economy of Romford is now changing the way that major centre across London are being policed.
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Police Professional (No. 496, 10 March 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at the reform of the IPCC that will result in an expanded role as well as a new name and structure, the need for a better system to record police use of force, research into fear of crime in Mexico and how the perception of insecurity is not always matched by the prevalence of crime, a charity that hopes to provide training to officers regarding interactions with people with autism, the contract between CSC and the Metropolitan Police to provide them with next generation digital policing workspace and the "Say no to Sexting" campaign in Staffordshire. Criminal Law Week asks if foresight of the possibility of the commission of an offence by a co-offender sufficient to make a person guilty on the basis of joint enterprise and whether market practice is relevant to the question of whether conduct is objectively dishonest. The main feature covers two projects bringing footwear analysis into the digital age at crime scenes and in custody and reducing the cost to the service.
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Directing decisions: helping the vulnerable to THRIVE.
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Police Professional (No. 488, 14 January 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at the history of the mounted police section in Liverpool, how "participant action research" is helping to develop a new form of public order policing and a new tracking system for police cars in Staffordshire that should result in faster response times. Criminal Law Week asks if a police officer must identify at court a driver stopped for a traffic offence, whether a case can be founded purely on DNA evidence and if section 60 search powers are incompatible with human rights. The main feature covers the TRIVE (threat, harm, risk, investigation, vulnerability engagement) decision model that has been promoted by IPCC as benefiting the protection of vulnerable people and how the model could be improved to deal with wider aspects of policing.
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Endangered species? Police bands face the music.
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Police Professional (No. 494, 25 February 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at the publication of the final part of the 2015 HMIC PEEL Report which is an assessment of forces effectiveness, how Gwent Police has improved this year after finishing bottom of the 2014 PEEL performance tables, the College of Policing pilot course to help sergeants and inspectors recognise their own subconscious racial bias in stop and search encounters, the threat, risk and harm matrix that has been developed to help Cambridgeshire Constabulary deploy its resources to their best effect, Sapura's IMAGE app that allows the rapid transfer of images from the control room to the field and the High Court decision in Rathband v chief constable of Northumbria dismissing the claim of negligence. The main feature covers the history of police bands and in particular the Liverpool police band.
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Feel the quality: index puts focus on harm.
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Police Professional (No. 489, 21 January 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at how new evidence is suggesting that the nature of gang activity is changing and has led to a new strategy focusing on the gang related exploitation of vulnerable young people and adults, the development of the PredPol predictive policing tool and how it is enabling forces to accurately predict patterns of crime hotspots, new crime linkage software developed in the US that can help police identify related crimes, how the new EU General Data Protection Regulations will improve the transferring and processing of data in the EU and result in improved police cooperation, the new Crown Court Digital Case System to enable digital evidence to be safely and securely shared by judge, clerk, defence, prosecution and probation, whether the intended arrest of former soldiers as part of the Bloody Sunday investigation was lawful and the impact on workplace privacy of the European Court of Human Rights case (Barbulescu v Romania) on access to employees' internet usage. The main feature covers why a "crime harm index" and "offender harm index" (offender triage) provides better evidence for evidence based policing than "rime counts" and "charge and bail".
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High street slavery: identifying hidden exploitation.
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Police Professional (No. 502, 21 April 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at how stress and reduced staff levels are putting police officers at risk of suicide, why police officers need more training to improve their response to stalking, the National Crime Agency review indicating that operations may have been compromised by a failure to follow correct procedure in warrant, the development of shared services courses to create accredited practitioners in this area, a report from the national heritage crime conference on development to address this form of criminality, whether police and crime commissioners need political or policing experience to succeed in their role, contributions to the 2016 Senior Women in Policing conference addressing developing self-confidence and leadership, the roll out of body worn video (BWV) cameras in Avon and Somerset and Dorset and videos from Sussex that show why BWV is becoming so important to policing. The main feature covers modern slavery in the UK, examining a number of cases that show how it is operating.
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Levels of recognition: accreditation for a complex world.
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Police Professional (No. 491, 04 February 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at an interview with College of Policing chief executive officer Alex Marshall regarding the Police Education and Qualifications Framework, an argument that limiting police selection by academic qualification will worsen police relations with the community by excluding applicants from the most marginalised communities, the Police Knowledge Funded project on developing restorative policing, how the new Centre for Policing Studies at Liverpool John Moores University is aiming to become the UK's foremost centre for policing studies and how the Metropolitan Police Service is upgrading its communication and control system in preparation for the transition to the Emergency Services Network. Criminal Law Week asks how initial disclose should be conducted in a complex fraud case and if the restrictions imposed on protests in Parliament Square Gardens are lawful. The main feature covers the College of Policing consultation on the Police Education and Qualifications Framework which is proposing to introduce graduate recruitment and apprentice constables. This will involve academic recognition for existing staff, a practical policing degree for future entrants and higher level apprenticeships for those officers who wish to earn whilst learning.
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Marking a milestone: 12 years of guidance and practice.
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POLICE PROFESSIONAL.
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Police Professional (No. 500, 7 April 2016.)
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Aylesbury Verdant Media 2016 34p., illus.
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This week's edition looks at a College of Policing consultation on new guidance that changes the way that intimate searches are carried out under stop and search powers, the use of the Project Servator programme at railway stations involving plain clothes behavioural detection officers scanning crowds for suspicious behaviour, how police need to improve their response to cybercrime, how Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire have used Niche to merge their core operational ICT systems, the potential benefits of embracing digital technology and how emergency services are developing shared control centres. Criminal Law Week asks whether the CPS policy on prosecutions for assisting suicide lawful? and how a judge should approach an allegation of jury tampering. The main feature looks back at some of the issues covered in the last 12 years by the previous 500 issues of Police Professional.
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Positive difference: team Durham defeating organised crime.
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POLICE PROFESSIONAL.
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Police Professional (No. 498, March 24 2016)
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This week's edition looks at the bomb attacks in Brussels, how inconsistent risk assessment and poor data management are putting missing children in danger, the importance of PCSO's to neighbourhood policing and the impact that austerity is having on them, how Durham Constabulary used multi agency collaboration and the civil courts to disrupt the activities of an organised crime group and force it out of business, the work that is required to gain agreement on the use as evidence of some forms of forensics and how being tasered can temporarily reduce a person's ability to process and remember information for up to an hour. The main feature covers how Durham Constabulary achieved the highest grades in the annual HMIC assessments.
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Reality becomes art: Manchester's "Mona Lisa" moment.
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POLICE PROFESSIONAL.
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Police Professional (No. 487, 07 January 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at the appointment of Phil Gormley as chief constable of Police Scotland, the use of lethal force by police officers in America, the Police Executive Research Forum recommendations on improving the way police officers use force in the US, Police Service of Northern Ireland experience as a fully armed police service that very rarely has to resort to the use of lethal force, the trial of a algorithm that has improved police decision making as to whether a crime is solvable and how child advocates have joined South Wales Police officers to help tackle child sexual exploitation. Criminal Law Week asks whether a football banning order can prohibit attendance only at matches involving specific teams and whether conditions placed on public assemblies are incompatible with human rights. The main feature covers a photograph of the police restraining a man in Manchester on New Year's Eve that has become an internet sensation.
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Rebalancing priorities: weighing the real impact of crime.
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POLICE PROFESSIONAL.
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Police Professional (No. 501, 14 April 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at how the multiple IT systems used by the police are hampering the digitisation of the criminal justice system, the new structure that has been adopted by Cheshire Constabulary investing in local policing and how police and local government are collaborating against organised crime groups. Criminal Law week asks whether a court was right to exclude a confession by a third party, when a reprimand should be issued for a sexual offence committed by a child, whether the new criminal records certificate scheme is still incompatible with the human rights laws and when can a domestic violence trial proceed without the complainant. The main feature covers the adoption of the Cambridge Crime Harm Index by Leicestershire police and its use to streamline resource allocation, protect the vulnerable and improve offender management.
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Setting up shop: banishing the ghosts of ICT past.
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POLICE PROFESSIONAL.
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Police Professional (No. 492, 11 February 2016.)
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This week's edition looks at the extension of the police disciplinary system to officers who have resigned or retired and the new powers to be granted to the IPCC and PCCs, the Interception of Communications Commissioner's Office (IOCCO) investigation into leaks within the Police Scotland investigation of the murder of Emma Caldwell, the new methodologies covered by the 2016 Evidence Based Policing conference and the Administrative Court judgement in the case of Susan Flower v HM Coroner for the County of Devon defining when an inquest is completed. Criminal Law Week look at whether someone selling a police uniform needs to check whether their customers have an illicit purpose, if the rules governing warrants of further detention of terrorist suspects are compatible with their human rights, whether search warrants in terrorist cases can be broader than normal and what if the effect of the new rules on self-defence by householders. The main feature covers the second annual suppliers summit organised by the Police ICT Company (PICTCo). It warns that forces are continuing to implement different ICT solutions that will result in huge information challenges in the future.
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