Public trust in the police has remained stable for a long time. Of those who responded to the latest Police Barometer survey, 92 per cent trust the police a lot or a fair amount. Respectful treatment of people by the police and fair police activities affect people’s trust. Around 85 per cent of the respondents…
Category: Trust in the police
Virtual Reality Police Training: 4 Benefits and Use Cases for Leveraging VR Training Tools
In order for law enforcement professionals to best protect and serve their communities, they need continuous training. Evolving social and cultural norms, advancements in technology and ever-changing state and federal guidelines all require officers to be up-to-date and ready to respond to almost any situation. However, traditional training methods can be time-consuming and costly, eating…
All-Ukrainian Conference on the Search for Persons Was Held in Dnipro
An All-Ukrainian conference on the search for persons missing under special circumstances was held in Dnipro. The aim of the conference was to summarise the annual work of the Interregional Centres for the Search for Persons Missing under Special Circumstances, as well as to discuss the practical results of cooperation between law enforcement, government and…
Vasyl Bohdan, Head of the Juvenile Police of Ukraine: the Police Have Received Nearly 70 reports from Children Regarding Attempts to Recruit Them by Russians
The full-scale war has had a significant impact on everyone in Ukrainian society, including children. Russians are committing many crimes against them – children are being injured by Russian shelling, they are being taken to Russian territory, etc. In addition, Russia is also involving Ukrainian children in acts of sabotage and terrorist attacks against their…
Throughout This Time, While the War Continues, the Police Are Looking for Ways to Be as Helpful as Possible to the Security and Defence Forces
The fourth year of full-scale war. Ukraine is changing — and with it, the work of the law enforcement system is transforming. New challenges, new crimes, new forms of threats. How is the criminal police responding to this? Can the law withstand the pressure of war? And what lies ahead? We discuss this in an…
Wartime Crisis Mode: The Impact of Russia’s Aggression on the System of Social Control in Ukraine (Crime, Institutes, and Trust in Criminal Justice)
The 21st century is the time of polycrisis, characterised by its temporal and spatial boundaries and cascading effects (Covid-19 pandemics, climate change, the war in Ukraine, mass migration caused by the war in Ukraine and other armed conflicts). Moreover, European societies are almost universally in crisis mode, which is linked to an accelerating process of…
Dmytro Yagunov: How to Return Trust to the Police in Postwar Ukraine
During the war, the Government had the priority to combat against Russian occupiers, where a traditional peace-time issue of human rights approach has been replaced with humanitarian law. There are grounds to believe that Ukraine will have a generation of police officers grown up on the long distance from procedural justice and human rights. We can also presume…
Lawmakers in the Brazilian State of Rio De Janeiro Approved Bonuses for Police Officers Who Kill “Criminals”
Lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have approved a bonus for police officers who kill “criminals,” a move that sparked outrage among rights defenders who fear a “massacre”. A similar measure, nicknamed the “Wild West Bonus”, was in effect from 1995 to 1998 when it was scrapped due to a sharp rise…
Khatia Dekanoidze: Police Reform in Ukraine: Achievements and Failures
The Soviet Union established a deeply corrupt and flawed criminal justice system designed to protect itself. Infiltrated by organised crime, it essentially functioned as a criminal body. Following the Soviet collapse, except for the Baltic states, corruption, clan-based structures, nepotism, and human rights violations persisted in the newly independent republics, mirroring the Soviet framework. It…