Posts Tagged Police
October 20, 2010 at 9:00 am · Filed under General, Law, Social Sciences ·Tagged Constabulary, Police
This report was published in October 2010.
“There are three sections to the report. In Chapter 1, there is an overview of the work of the Inspectorate and our developing inspection model. This is set within the context of the wider, shared scrutiny agenda and the introduction of new opportunities for discussion.
Chapter 2 is the main focus of the report. It covers my findings from our inspection activity throughout 2009/10 at both a national level and individually by constabulary area. It highlights the invaluable collaborative work that has taken place between the Inspectorate and other scrutiny bodies.
In Chapter 3, I look to the future and outline our plans for developing self-evaluation and our other inspection tools, in order to re-focus the work of the Inspectorate on the challenges that lie ahead.”
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April 5, 2010 at 10:09 am · Filed under General, Law, Social Sciences ·Tagged Government policy, Police, Terrorism
This report was published March 2010.
“CONTEST is our strategic response to the threat from international terrorism. The aim of the strategy is ‘to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from international terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence’.
The aim of this Annual Report is to make public the work that Departments and agencies have undertaken over the last 12 months. During this period there have been no attacks in the UK by international terrorist groups or individuals associated with or influenced by them. But we continue to face a significant terrorist threat and there have been many terrorist attacks in other countries in which thousands of people, including British citizens, have been killed or injured.”
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March 19, 2010 at 1:29 pm · Filed under Education ·Tagged Crime, Education, Police, Scottish schools, Young people
These research findings were published on 16th March 2010.
“Campus officers are one approach that education and police services are using to help young people engage in positive behaviour and steer vulnerable young people away from antisocial behaviour and crime.”
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December 9, 2008 at 9:43 am · Filed under Social Sciences ·Tagged Police
The Scottish Government issued this report yesterday, the second annual report of the Chief Inspector of Constabulary.
“The men and women who comprise Scotland’s police service have met with skill, selflessness and, not infrequently, great courage, operational challenges that could not have been envisaged at the inception of a recognisably modern police service some 200 years ago. Indeed some of the local, national and global problems with which the present day service now contends would not have been foreseeable even at the last major restructuring of the police service over 30 years ago. Despite new demands and risks arising from a rapidly changing world I am confident that, while the institutions and organisation of policing will necessarily evolve, the professionalism and vocation of police officers in every discipline – increasingly supported by committed police staff colleagues – will overcome any test to deliver the excellence in policing that communities all who live, work in or visit Scotland rightly expect and deserve.”
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November 12, 2008 at 10:45 am · Filed under Social Sciences ·Tagged EUROPOL, Police
The House of Lords European Union Committee issued this report today. It covers the imminent changes to EUROPOL, the European Police Office.
“Major criminals are no respecters of frontiers. They treat national borders as at worst an inconvenience, at best an opportunity to commit ever more sophisticated offences and to help in escaping detection, prosecution and conviction. For law enforcers matters are otherwise. Borders represent the operational limits of national units, and differences in operational methods. They throw up language barriers, and problems are caused by different legal systems, different laws and different prosecution processes. It is the task of Europol, the European Police Office, to ensure that, for law enforcers, the national borders of the Member States cause as little hindrance as possible to the fight against serious crime.”
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November 12, 2008 at 10:40 am · Filed under Social Sciences ·Tagged Police
The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee issued this document yesterday. It reports on their inquiry into how expectations of the police service in England and Wales in the 21st century have changed and the resources the police have to meet these expectations.
“The police service is facing the challenge of a gradual yet significant expansion of its responsibilities. Greater clarity is needed as to its core role in the 21st century. Pressure to meet quantitative Home Office targets has often caused officers to prioritise trivial offences. We welcome the Government’s undertaking to replace top-down targets with locally-set priorities, and encourage greater use of officer discretion, backed by more effective supervision.”
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October 16, 2008 at 9:21 am · Filed under Social Sciences ·Tagged HMICS, Police
HMICS issued this report today (I am on the ball this weather) which examines the provision of medical services to people in police custody in Scotland.
“This report is intended to stimulate improvement and contribute to continuing debate on the manner in which these services are provided. It makes a number of recommendations on the basis of identified good practice, and seeks to contribute to wider discussion about how and by whom such services should be provided.”
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September 30, 2008 at 4:03 pm · Filed under Social Sciences ·Tagged Crime, Police
This Scottish Government publication presents statistics on crimes and offences recorded and cleared up by the eight Scottish police forces, disaggregated by crime/offence group, police force area and council area.
“The total number of crimes recorded by the police in 2007/08 was 385,509, which was 8 per cent lower than in 2006/07. The total remains well below the 2004/05 figure of 438,121, and is the lowest number recorded since 1980.”
Lowest since 1980? Not bad at all. It is, of course, ‘recorded crime’ and not actual crimes committed, many of which go unrecorded. Still, why rain on their parade? Well done lads and lassies in blue!
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August 27, 2008 at 2:21 pm · Filed under Social Sciences ·Tagged Domestic abuse, HMICS, Police
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary for Scotland today produced this report into the police response to domestic violence in Scotland.
“The effects of domestic abuse are far-reaching in terms of the victim’s physical and mental well-being, the impact on children of victims, the links to child abuse and other violent crime and the costs to society as a whole both in terms of social cohesion and demand on services. The quality of police intervention is critical to preventing further violence and abuse.”
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July 31, 2008 at 8:52 am · Filed under Science, Social Sciences ·Tagged DNA, Police
The Citizens’ Inquiry, commissioned by the HGC, recommends that the police National DNA Database should be placed under the control of an independent statutory authority and there should be a vigorous nationwide information campaign to explain why DNA samples are taken, how they are used and why they are retained.
This BBC report gives an insight into the broohaha generated by the Inquiry.
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