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Showing Stories from 16th November 2020 to 26th May 2021

Cybercrime officers receive 'ground-breaking' training in neurodiversity

(26/05/21) Officers and staff who work in cybercrime have been given neurodiversity training to help them understand how best to work with suspects, witnesses and victims who are neurodivergent.

Link being developed so forces can ask "dynamic questions" of PND

(25/05/21) But Intelligence conference told that national legacy systems are not easily adapted for targeted data searches.

NPCC appoints first National Policing Chief Scientific Advisor

(11/05/21) Professor Paul Taylor has been appointed as the first National Policing Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA).

(06/05/21) Crime down while assaults on emergency workers up (27/04/21) "Significant number of FPNs incorrectly issued", says report (29/03/21) Mistrust from black communities hurts policing ability, warns NPCC (26/03/21) Facebook apps 'used in more than half of online child sex crimes' (25/02/21) NPCC say Covid rules are clear but 9 out of 10 officers disagree (25/02/21) Police Covenant 'not worth the paper it is written on' says Met Federation (23/02/21) Use VR to prepare recruits for trauma of police work says chief (28/01/21) COVID-19 fines go up and core crime drops, NPCC reveals (22/01/21) Joint training packages for RASSO investigators part of action plan (21/01/21) 'High threshold' for officers to be removed from barred list (21/01/21) Cryptocurrency storage contract to store seized digital assets

Officers get 'left-over' vaccine while others told to turn down offers

(19/01/21) Officers from some forces are taking up local NHS trusts on their offers for spare vaccines. The Metropolitan Police is however reportedly instructing officers to decline if offered externally.