Great expectations: what do the public want from the police?
What do the public expect of the police? At a time of limited resources and shifting demand police f...
Spit hoods – a question of transparency
I must admit I’d not heard of spit hoods until earlier this year when I read reports that the ...
Falling police morale: “dry your eyes” is no answer
‘Dry your eyes’. Three simple words as part of a late night Twitter chat that landed PSN...
So a large portion of fraud is linked to organised crime – what are the implications for the police?
To many practitioners, it cannot come as too much of a surprise that lots of fraud has its roots in ...
The changing world, not funding cuts is the greatest test the police face
Yesterday the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released statistics confirming that crime has chan...
Policing after Brexit
The decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union is likely to be the biggest political...
Should officers being investigated for misconduct be allowed to apply for promotion?
Amidst the fallout following the verdicts in the Hillsborough inquests, one story that garnered medi...
A window of opportunity for sensible debate? The fall in crime as a national concern for the public
Every month Ipsos MORI asks a representative sample of around 1,000 adults across Great Britain what...
We need to talk about Kevin
We need to talk about Kevin With the Police and Crime Commissioner elections upon us and the candida...
Shoring up the foundations: Victim belief revisited
Last October, at the height of the controversy surrounding Operation Midland the Metropolitan Police...
A call for greater transparency in the Police Innovation Fund
Last month the Home Office published a list of successful bids to the 2016/17 Police Innovation...
Communicating ambiguity – a challenge for police leaders
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe recently gave a speech at the BBC in which h...