It’s time for a review of police pay
What motivates response officers to lace up their boots ahead of another arduous night shift, knowin...
Condemned to repeat it? How policing can learn from the mistakes of the past
Ruth Halkon, Research Officer, The Police Foundation and Constable Robert Mackay, Metropolitan Polic...
A happy anniversary: reflections on measuring police performance through the decades
Anniversaries are more than mere dates on a calendar. Whether the events they recall are happy, sa...
Good victim care isn’t dependent on spending more time with victims of crime
Victim care has long been an interest of mine. I’ve been doing research on it, as well as giving a...
New mobile phone law will only work if there are enough roads policing officers to enforce it
Last Friday it became illegal for motorists to touch their mobile phone for any reason while behind ...
LONG READ: Victims of crime need to tell their story
Last July I wrote a blog in which I said that police officers should see themselves as applied psych...
Jake Davison and Emad Al Swealmeen: Extremists without a cause?
The Terrorism Act (2000) has provided the foundation for counter-terrorism policy and tactics for th...
In defence of police league tables
In my last blog I suggested that performance targets may not be the unquestionable evil that some pe...
Open source intelligence – the Cinderella of the investigative family?
Sir Mark Rowley QPM OSINT (open source intelligence) can be a powerful intelligence and investigativ...
Police performance targets: the devil’s work?
The subject of performance targets continues to evoke strong negative reactions. In my last b...
Police targets: knowing the difference between apparent performance and actual performance
Whenever I present a course on police performance, I begin by posing the question ‘what IS p...