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Feb 28, 2022 · February 28, 2022. News, Society. Iceland’s Police Academy at the University of Akureyri will accept 50% more students this fall, a measure intended to solve a shortage of police officers in the country, RÚV reports. Minister of Justice Jón Gunnarsson has stated that the safety of civilians is ensured in Iceland, but it is nevertheless ...
Mar 1, 2021 · Social media has introduced new ways of both committing and solving crimes into our increasingly digitized world. Services like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram create opportunities for criminal activity. They also allow police services to scour publicly generated user information – posts, pictures, videos and personal information.
Sep 30, 2020 · Iceland has the lowest murder rate in the world and yet it seems to have the highest density of top crime authors. By our calculations, about one in every 50,000 Icelanders is producing better than average crime novels, which are being translated into English and a variety of other international languages.
Jan 1, 2017 · Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Quentin Bates (Translator) Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavík police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end job in a small town in eastern Iceland. His detective’s instincts are ...
Trapped: Created by Baltasar Kormákur. With Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Guðjón Pedersen. In a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.
A growing body of research evidence, however, suggests that “high-risk places, high-risk people” strategies can actually improve police legitimacy when they are coupled with a strong commitment to community partnership. Such strategies can simultaneously reduce crime and imprisonment by increasing potential offenders’ perceived risk of ...
Mar 5, 2017 · The Plain Dealer. CLEVELAND — Police agencies across the country would likely solve cold cases - murders and rapes - if they entered finger and palm prints from older crimes into an upgraded national database, a move the FBI encourages. In Cleveland, re-submitting prints has resulted in charges in at least two unsolved rape cases, so far.
