A National Police Service: Any Day Now?

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Donnelly ◽  
Kenneth B. Scott ◽  
Roy Wilkie
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Central Control ◽  
National Service ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Police Service ◽  
National Network ◽  
Regional System ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
National Police

Policing in the UK is moving towards more central control than ever before in its history, at the expense of a strong tripartite system, which seems to exist in name only. The evolving national network in England and Wales has a statutory foundation, while Scotland has adopted a mainly nonstatutory approach to central control, although this should change with new legislation in 2003. The potential for further centralisation in Scotland remains high because of the nation's size and new devolved constitutional position. The key question for all concerned in the UK, and particularly in Scotland, is what system of policing do we wish to have: a national service; a regional system; or the status quo? The answer can be found only after open public debate takes place.

Debates over Irish unification will gain traction

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk

Significance The differing perspectives of unionists and nationalists on the creation of Northern Ireland as a political entity within the United Kingdom, together with Brexit and tensions over the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP), have brought the contentious issue of Irish reunification onto the political agenda in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Impacts Scottish independence would likely increase momentum for a referendum on Irish unity. Successful implementation of the NIP, giving firms access to EU and UK markets, may support arguments for maintaining the status quo. If the UK government abandons the NIP, the adverse trade impact on Northern Irish firms could increase support for unification.

Ideologies of Gender on Television in India

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya C. Mcmillin
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Female Leadership ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
National Network ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The Status

Content analyses of Indian television programmes on the national network Doordarshan in the 1980s have shown that prime-time shows cast women as docile homemakers and as objects of male desire. This paper uses a critical postcolonial theoretical framework and narrative analysis method to detect ideologies of gender from programmes randomly selected from a month's menu of the transnational, national and regional television networks in the country. A broad conclusion is that Indian television in the late 1990s perpetuates, across channels, the 1980s' stereotypical images of women, images that have their roots in Vedic, colonial, and nationalist literature. The status quo is explained through a critical discussion of the framing of 'woman' in colonial and postcolonial nation-building efforts. The paper also points to the emerging genre of hybrid programming, where the greater incidence of female veejays and talk show hosts paves the way for the expression of female leadership and desire, and leads to more positive television portrayals of women in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Where's the Intelligence in the National Intelligence Model?

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Eline Kleiven
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Culture ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Police Service ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Community Intelligence ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

This article investigates the status of community intelligence within The National Intelligence Model (NIM) in the UK. The study included focused interviews with 23 intelligence practitioners across the UK police service, combined with open-ended interviews with academics and persons working to implement the NIM. The results indicate that police officers and informants are the most trusted and the most used sources of intelligence, and that the use of community intelligence is marginal. A combination of police culture, lack of knowledge within management and police officers, the absence of a general definition of ‘intelligence’, a lack of guidance around community intelligence and the secrecy surrounding intelligence, stand out as factors that may explain the low status and use of community intelligence.

scholarly journals DOUBLE INVOICING IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: THE FRAUD AND NULLITY EXCEPTIONS IN LETTERS OF CREDIT – ARE THE AMERICA ACCORD AND THE UCP 500 CROOKS’ CHARTERS!?

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-156
Author(s):  
Ademuni Odeke
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Bank Of Canada ◽  
The Status ◽  
Letters Of Credit ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Exchange Control ◽  
The Imf

This article: First, (a) re-examines the fraud exception rule in letters of credit transactions with specific reference to the United City Merchants v Royal Bank of Canada (the American Accord) and against the background of a recent commonwealth decision accepting nullity as a new exception; (b) evaluates its impact on over/under invoicing under the WTO Agreement on Pre-shipment Inspection of Goods in International Trade (PSI); and (c) assesses its implication on the IMF Agreement on Exchange Control implemented in the UK by the IMF Agreement Regulations 1946 made under the IMF Agreement Acts 1945 as amended. Secondly, it argues that the current UCP 500 is outmoded and inadequate to meet current needs and is therefore in need of urgent revision. Thirdly, it recommends, inter alia, that in accordance with the said commonwealth decision, fraud by third parties should be recognised by English law as an independent and separate nullity exception. Fourth, and finally, it concludes that the status-quo acts as an unwitting Crooks’ Charter for money launderers, documentary fraudsters and other white collar crimes.

scholarly journals The Future of Initial Police Training: A University Perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic A. Wood ◽  
Stephen Tong
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Training ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Initial Training ◽  
Police Recruits ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Police Service ◽  
The Status ◽  
University Department

A recurring issue in the initial training of police recruits in England and Wales concerns the status of student police officers. This position paper engages with debates concerning this aspect of initial police training from a university perspective by reflecting on the experiences gained over a three and a half year period of delivering a Student Officer Programme (SOP), a joint collaboration between a university department and a UK police service. As such it should be read as a comment piece that aims primarily to stimulate debate. Although not an empirical research piece, the paper nonetheless engages with the experiences that have been borne out of the collaborative running of the SOP. The paper presents a philosophical analysis of one particular aspect of that experience, namely the tension that arises from the contradictory status of student police officers.

scholarly journals An “Ethical Moment” in Data Sharing

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Heeney
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Empirical Ethics ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Ontological Uncertainty

This study draws on interviews with forty-nine members of a biomedical research community in the UK that is involved in negotiating data sharing and access. During an interview, an interviewee used the words “ethical moment” to describe a confrontation between collaborators in relation to data sharing. In this article, I use this as a lens for thinking about relations between “the conceptual and the empirical” in a way that allows both analyst and actor to challenge the status quo and consider other ethical possibilities. Drawing on actor network theory (ANT), I approach “the empirical” using the concepts of controversy and ontological uncertainty as methodological tools to tackle the problem of ethics. I suggest that these concepts also provide a bridge for understanding the ontological structure of the virtual and the actual, as described in Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. While other science and technology studies scholars have sought to draw on Deleuze, this article addresses the integration of ethics and empirical research. It arises as a critical reaction to existing treatments of this problem as found in empirical ethics, especially in the sociology of bioethics, and indirectly in ANT texts.

The status quo of gastroenterology training in the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 781
Author(s):  
Nabihah Malik ◽  
Jamal Ahmed ◽  
Badr Abdalla ◽  
Majid Protty ◽  
Hasan Haboubi
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Norms and Creativity: Tensions Between the Status Quo and Innovation in Quality Standards for Public Service Interpreting in the United Kingdom

Linguaculture ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Brooke Townsley
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Professional Registration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article will examine the validity of existing assessment procedures in the UK and compare and contrast these models with other possible assessment and accreditation models. It will also examine the possibilities for quality assessment (QA) procedures offered by the use of digital technologies. Implicit in this descriptive and analytical process will be an examination of the linkages between these models of assessment and the opportunity for professional registration. Issues addressed in this article will be: the status quo in the assessment and registration of interpreters and translators for the public sector in the UK; the impact of new social, political and economic realities on the existing assessment and registration regime; the opportunities and/or threats to quality norms represented by online digital technologies. The material will be of particular interest to: end users of interpreter and translator services in the public sector; interpreting and translation test developers and QA procedure designers; interpreting and translating practitioners, in-service and aspiring

scholarly journals Building back fairer in Greater Manchester and the country

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Marmot
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Inequalities In Mortality ◽  
Health And Well Being

A summary of our analyses in Greater Manchester (GM), and the northwest (NW) region, might be: the NW is like England as a whole only more so. The life expectancy drop in England in 2020 was 1.2 years in men and 0.9 years in women—shocking, but not as high as in the NW. COVID-19 mortality rates were high in England; 25% higher in the NW. Inequalities in mortality are high in England; bigger in the NW. The title, Build Back Fairer , is a deliberate echo of the Build Back Better mantra, showing that the levels of social, environmental and economic inequality in society are damaging health and well-being. As the UK emerges from the pandemic, it would be a tragic mistake to re-establish the status quo that existed pre-pandemic—a status quo marked in England, over the decade from 2010, by a stagnation of health improvement that was more marked than in any rich country other than Iceland and the USA; by widening health inequalities; and by a fall in life expectancy in the most deprived 10% of areas outside London. That stagnation, those social and regional inequalities, and deterioration in health for the most deprived people are markers of a society that is not meeting the needs of its members.

Distribution of Eurasian otter biliary parasites, Pseudamphistomum truncatum and Metorchis albidus (Family Opisthorchiidae), in England and Wales

Parasitology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 136 (9) ◽  
pp. 1015-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. SHERRARD-SMITH ◽  
J. CABLE ◽  
E. A. CHADWICK
Keyword(s):  
Gall Bladder ◽  
Biliary System ◽  
Lutra Lutra ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Eurasian Otter ◽  
The North ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk

SUMMARYGall bladders from 273 otter carcasses, collected throughout England and Wales, were screened to assess the status of gall bladder parasites in the Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra. The digenean Pseudamphistomum truncatum had previously been found in UK otters collected between 2000 and 2007. The parasite was established in Somerset and Dorset but its distribution elsewhere in the UK was largely unknown. In the current study, P. truncatum was also found to be abundant in south Wales, with occasional cases elsewhere, but appears to be absent from the north of England. Overall, 11·7% of otters were infected with 1–238 P. truncatum. A second digenean, Metorchis albidus, previously unreported in British otters, was found in the biliary system of 6·6% of otters. M. albidus appears well established in Suffolk, Norfolk and north Essex but was recorded elsewhere rarely. Both parasites are associated with pathological damage to the otter gall bladder. The recent discovery of these two non-native parasites provides a unique opportunity to assess their impact on native British fauna.

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