Trust in the police
Last Friday the pollsters Ipsos MORI published the results of the latest in their long-running serie...
Stalking figures: when ‘facts’ become ‘truth’
While in the process of updating our Briefing on stalking, we continually saw it reported that there...
Draft Police and Crime Plan: MOPAC may need to think again
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime’s draft Police and Crime Plan for 2013-2017 is...
Direct entry: a risky solution
The Home Office’s proposals for direct entry, initially set out in Tom Winsor’s review o...
Roads policing isn’t glamorous but it is important
When we step into our cars none of us views ourselves as a potential killer, yet there are seven dea...
PCCs getting down to business a month after the elections
It’s now a little over a month since the elections and Police and Crime Commissioners are begi...
Remodelling the IPCC
At the Labour party conference, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper made a case for replacing the IP...
Get out the vote: the PCC election advertising campaign
Over the weekend the Home Office launched its long-awaited Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) adver...
The hidden impact of organised crime
The shockingrevelations in The Times last week of child sexual exploitation in South Yorkshire, alon...
Utmost discretion: deploying stop and search
Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe’s declaration that he intends to overhaul stop and search ...
Can policing be bought and sold?
In the current climate of austerity and cuts to budgets, police forces are being asked to do more wi...
Policing and the Recession
Talk of cuts in public services has become endemic. Politicians, senior managers, civil servants, jo...