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...
Getting to grips with the PCC and Chief Constable relationship
Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) locally elected officials in charge of local police forcesÛÓ...
Victims: at the heart of the criminal justice system?
This week I attended the Northamptonshire Victim’s Voice Conference, organised by Voice the ne...
Policing at a crossroads
The media talking points from the latest HMIC inspection of police force effectiveness have all been...
Making sense of “senseless” youth violence
Watching the final episode of Channel 4’s 3-part documentary Murder Detectives last week I was...
Variable geography: the implications of devolution for policing in England
England’s governance is changing radically as a result of the devolution deals being reached b...
What the CSR means for the police service – some early reflections
The outcome of this week’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) came as a welcome surprise to t...
The police have avoided the worst, but crime is changing and they cannot stand still
We will have to wait for the unofficial briefings and the ministerial memoirs to understand what rol...
What will the Spending Review mean for policing?
It seems that any hope the police had that events in Paris may have won them a last minute reprieve ...
Stop and search and knife crime in London: what we know and what we don”t
There have been increasing concerns in recent months about signs of a rise in knife crime in London,...