Tag: Police

Home Office partners with Channel 4 to tackle perceptions of the police in bold new recruitment drive

Stuart Mitchell

A powerful campaign exploring the public’s perceptions of the police and the experiences of black, female and LGBTQ police officers has launched across Channel 4’s TV, digital and social media channels as part of a unique partnership with the Home Office. Untold: The Police features members of the public from groups that are less likely to consider a career in policing interview serving police officers from those same communities The open and honest conversations are unscripted and the potential new recruits raise issues that are closest to them, including reaction…

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IVECO Is Helping One of the Largest UK Police Forces Get to Grips With Sustainable Transport

Stuart Mitchell

IVECO UK, the commercial vehicles brand of CNH Industrial N.V., welcomed members of Essex Police’s Commercial Vehicle Unit to its Basildon head office for an in-depth training day on the latest generation of commercial vehicles running on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Essex Police is one of the the largest non-metropolitan police forces in the United Kingdom. The Commercial Vehicle Unit is a designated section of the Essex Roads Policing team, responsible for a 4,500-mile network including major roads, which serve both the county and key arterial routes into the UK’s…

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FCB Amsterdam join forces with the police to tackle teenage cybercrime

Stuart Mitchell

Holland’s national police force engaged FCB Amsterdam to help raise awareness about cybercrime and alert adolescents to the potential dangers of cyber-experimentation. The campaign, which reached more than 13 million Dutch nationals online, raised awareness around the multitude of risks that can lead teens to engage unwittingly in criminal activity, and last week was awarded two prestigious Lovie awards, celebrating the best digital work of Europe. Cyberspace offers an unregulated online network of sources that can provide teenagers with simple instructions for code breaking, piracy, phishing and DDoS attacks, and…

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Campaign encourages witnesses to report hate crime

Stuart Mitchell

On 26th September victims of hate crime joined Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government, Aileen Campbell, the Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Humza Yousaf, Chief Inspector Shaheen Baber and Inspector John Graham from Police Scotland at the Writer’s Museum in Edinburgh, to launch a new campaign spelling out the importance of reporting hate crime. In Scotland, the law recognises hate crimes as motivated by prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and disability. New research reveals that over 80% of people in Scotland would report a mugging of…

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