Police ethics committees in England and Wales: Exploratory online and web surveys

Snelling, Paul; MacVean, Allyson; Lewis, Richard A.

doi:10.1093/police/paac059

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“…In the meantime, in the absence of training and advice other than the broader guidance offered by the CoP's vulnerability guidelines and the Code of Ethics, and having presented some of the considerations at play, we recommend that LEOs faced with a disclosure dilemma utilise the views of their force's ethics committee where this is available (recent research has found that 22 police force areas in England and Wales operate an ethics committee) (Snelling et al, 2022).…”

Section: An Ethically Appropriate Approach To the Disclosure Decisionmentioning

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Disclosure to unknowing victims in criminal justice investigations: Questions of vulnerability, ethics and practice

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Gillespie

2023

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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This article explores the situation in which a victim who has been identified during a criminal justice investigation is unaware of the crime committed against them. We argue that unknowing victims possess a unique vulnerability because discovering their victim status is highly likely to have harmful effects. Where law enforcement officers (LEOs) remain unaware of the victim's knowledge of the crime, this should be perceived as a clue to potential vulnerability. Any subsequent disclosure of the crime to an unknowing victim is an external intervention that exposes them to the risk of harm, thereby raising significant ethical questions. Yet the ethical ramifications of disclosure are not considered in the policing literature and there is no specific professional guidance in England and Wales (and beyond) on this situation. Focusing on two of the primary crime contexts in which a victim can be unknowing (sexual offences and fraud), we scrutinise the ethical issues surrounding LEOs disclosing to an unknowing victim, aligning our analysis with the College of Policing's Code of Ethics and vulnerability-related risks guidelines, and a therapeutic jurisprudence approach to policing.

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Section: An Ethically Appropriate Approach To the Disclosure Decisionmentioning

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Disclosure to unknowing victims in criminal justice investigations: Questions of vulnerability, ethics and practice

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Gillespie

2023

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…There is some evidence that ethical scrutiny of Big Data has been applied systematically in LEAs, after the interviewees first raised concerns, as evident from the above-mentioned Ethics Committee (WMPCC, 2019). It should be noted that this case is perhaps an outlier, as the author did not encounter similar cases at other LEAs in the UK, even though ethics committees have become standard practice at UK LEAs since 2012 (Snelling et al, 2022).…”

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Policing the future?

Bunnik

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Secondly, I want to thank my supervisors, Andrej and Michael, and colleagues who have been very supportive over the years and operated as critical friends to help me on this road to completion. I started this study in the UK, under supervision of Michael Mulqueen and David Lundie, then moved back to the Netherlands where Andrej offered to take me under his kind wings -and where I joined the Data Research Centre (DRC) as a part-time researcher. This meant that the study did not follow a continuous, linear path, and was in need of various sprints along the way to complete it. Thank you for being patient and understanding. This is also a shout out to Oskar, Anne, and the colleagues at DRC. Your multi-and interdisciplinary work is exciting, fun, and the future of academia.Thirdly, I want to thank my academic and professional colleagues at the H2020 consortium Cutting Crime Impact (CCI). It was truly a pleasure to engage with law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and other partners from Estonia, Germany, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, and the UK and witness the innovations that were being designed. I hope the contributions of Andrej, Oskar, and myself on the ethical, legal, and social aspects were not too academic and helped you design solutions that not merely work in a technical way, but are also sustainable and supported by society.In addition, a shout out to my kind and supportive colleagues at the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) who are doing amazing work at the forefront of new developments. Rock on.Finally, I would like to thank the twenty interviewees at the law enforcement agencies for your time and for being open and frank with an external researcher. Ian, thank you for connecting me with these gatekeepers and for your informal comments. Thank you, David, for your kind tips on ethics and values.

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AI-related data ethics oversight in UK policing

Sorell

2024

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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This paper considers the question of how police-related AI projects and data projects in general are normatively assessed in the UK. After locating data ethics in relation to policing ethics, I shall consider the workings of perhaps the leading regional data ethics committee in the UK. I go on to consider the approach of another committee that might in the future provide national data ethics advice for the police. Finally, I summarize the normative ethics frameworks in use in the two committees and their heavy reliance on the concepts of necessity and proportionality. I suggest that these concepts may have to be supplemented by systematic thinking about varieties of harm and the way in which severe harm may generate obligations to prevent it, where prevention may be assisted by AI models.

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Police ethics committees in England and Wales: Exploratory online and web surveys

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Disclosure to unknowing victims in criminal justice investigations: Questions of vulnerability, ethics and practice

Disclosure to unknowing victims in criminal justice investigations: Questions of vulnerability, ethics and practice

Policing the future?

AI-related data ethics oversight in UK policing

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