A Christmas present for policing?
Ministers have just announced the police finance settlement for 2018/19 and while there is some caus...
Becoming blue: the story of police culture
Researching with, for, or on the police is always a challenge – a satisfying challenge, but a ...
Creating geometry out of shadows – pop-up brothels and the role of organised crime
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for prostitution has launched an inquiry into the spread of pop-up...
What do we want the police to do? It’s time for an honest debate
The police might be forgiven for thinking that parts of the press have it in for them. First The Sun...
Time to redraw the cyber policing landscape
It’s becoming a cliché remarkably quickly within cyber policing circles that forces are tackling ...
What’s happening to crime? A guide for journalists and presidents
From looking at the headlines over the last 24 hours you would think the UK is in the middle of a cr...
Policing and public services on Blockchain
At this week’s Blockchain Live conference in London there was a lot of buzz and excitement aro...
Police pay: service fears and tin ears
As the dust starts to settle following yesterday’s police pay settlement, several things ...
Police governance: considering Crompton
While most of us were focused on the fallout from the tumultuous general election result, on 9th Jun...
Donald Rumsfeld and Schrodinger’s cat: how to make crime weighting useful
Donald Rumsfeld famously spoke about ‘known knowns…things that we know that we kn...
Reducing the impact of organised crime: local problems require a local response
The Police Foundation and Perpetuity Research have completed a large-scale study of organised c...
We can’t arrest our way out of cyber crime, so what can we do?
The internet has liberated human beings to trade, cooperate and exchange ideas to a degree unparalle...