A healthy lead? Chief officer appointments need questioning
In recent weeks the Deputy Chief Constables of Thames Valley, Northumbria, Staffordshire and Wiltshi...
A dialogue of the deaf: The debate about police cuts
Yesterday’s National Audit Office report on the “financial sustainability of police forc...
Five years on…key themes in policing
It is nearly five years since I started my blog and sadly this one will be my last. I will be standi...
Cuts have consequences
Last week the Police Federation held its annual conference entitled ‘The Policing Challenge: C...
2015 election: what the parties have to say about policing
The political parties have now (finally)published their manifestosand the final phase of electioneer...
A property crime epidemic?
At the beginning of this month, Policy Exchange, a right-of-centre think tank, published a report ca...
The shifting sands of recorded crime
Last month the Evening Standard newspaper reported “Violent crime in London soars by 22 per ce...
Transforming policing
In my last blog I referred to the challenges that the changing world, especially the ubiquity of the...
Policing in a changing world
It has become commonplace to refer to a rapidly changing world when discussing some of the challenge...
Stop and search: Tactical bias is affecting police legitimacy
In her speech at the recent Conservative Party Annual Conference, the Home Secretary made the reform...
What works in policing domestic abuse?
Last week the Police Foundation held its annual conference on Innovations inpolicingdomestic abuse. ...
A cautionary word on evidence-based policing
As recently reported on PoliceOracle.com, ACPO vice presidents Sir Peter Fahy and Sara Thornton have...