Police Forces
27 Oct 2023High firearm ownership among U.S. law enforcement officers linked to increased risk of suicidal thoughts, Rutgers study reveals
Rutgers University researchers have identified concerning links between high firearm ownership and storage practices among U.S. law enforcement officers and increased risk of suicidal thoughts,
26 Sep 2023Opinion: having the army on standby as police firearm officers only risks exacerbating systemic issues
Met Police firearms officers have handed in their weapons over concern that one of their own has been charged with the murder of 24-year-old Chris Kaba
20 Feb 2023Inquest analysis finds black people in the UK are seven times more likely to die following police restraint than white people
Inquest reveals black people are seven times more likely to die following restraint by police, with the report alleging racism is ignored as a factor in British policing. The report highlights that the British system of investigating deaths after contact with the police fails black families, and no officer has ever been found to have acted in a discriminatory way following a black person's death after contact with the police.
16 Feb 2023Should you routinely arm police forces?
The article challenges the assumption that routinely arming police officers increases community or police safety, citing insufficient evidence to support the notion and finding a higher risk to civilians and officers from the excessive use of force in jurisdictions where police officers are routinely armed.
14 Sep 2022The Chris Kaba shooting and the reality of armed policing in modern Britain
The Metropolitan Police has refused to reveal the ethnicity of the armed police officers who were present in the controversial killing of Chris Kaba. This article explains why this matters.
22 Aug 2022Rwanda’s refusal to let AOAV report on its treatment of refugees should be a warning call to the UK
Twelve refugees were killed by Rwandan police in 2018 and the country is attempting to shield itself from scrutiny – this should concern us all, writes Iain Overton
3 Sep 2021UK government cannot say if it has trained Indonesian police forces implicated in human rights abuse
A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence found that the Government does not hold information about who it trains in Indonesia
19 Aug 2021Myanmar Police Force were trained by British officers, UK Government admits
Under the European Union scheme Mypol, two UK police officers visited politically turbulent Myanmar in 2017 to provide equipment and training to modernise the police force, as revealed by a Freedom of Information request to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; the scheme was later suspended in February 2021 by the EU following Myanmar's military coup and violent response to protests.
11 Feb 2021Police Lethal Force and Accountability: a review
A new report that assesses four western European countries to see how often someone is killed by Police Forces, and the availability and reliability of the information on such killings, is reviewed by AOAV
23 Oct 2020One in four shot by UK police are black, yet tiny fraction of armed officers are black – AOAV study finds
A quarter of people shot by armed police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in the last five years were black, whilst only 0.2% of armed officers identify as black.
28 Sep 2020Fatal shootings of police officers in the UK – a tragic history
Despite the tragedy of last week's death of a police officer, the frequency of British police fatally shot has declined - fewer officers were killed in the past three decades (90s, 00s, 10s) combined than in the 1980s.
1 Jun 2020What is Missing in the Debate about Police Violence in the US
As many as three times the number of people are shot and wounded by US police as are shot and killed.