Donald Rumsfeld and Schrodinger’s cat: how to make crime weighting useful
Blogs, Crime statistics, Public policy
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
Blogs, Organised crime
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?
Blogs, Cybercrime, Digital technology, Organised crime
The internet has liberated human beings to trade, cooperate and exchange ideas to a degree unparalle
Neighbourhood policing: a police force typology and an appeal for local insights
Blogs, Neighbourhood policing
The Neighbourhood Policing Programme (NPP), which ended eight years ago, provided English and Welsh
A hard Brexit for policing and justice?
Blogs, Governance, Public policy
This week the Prime Minister triggered the start of negotiations which will lead to Britain leaving
How efficient and effective are the police?
Blogs, Police effectiveness, Police resources
We have just finished an 18-month study of value for money in British policing, which the Police Fou
Police effectiveness 2016: Robbing Peter to pay Paul?
Blogs, Police effectiveness, Police resources
Waving a “large and deep-red warning flag”, HMIC’s 2016 PEEL Effectiveness report
Policing within a system
Blogs, Governance, Public policy
Policing is being pulled in two different directions. On the one hand the internet has enabled crime
Is a mental health dam in policing starting to crack?
Blogs, Mental health
This week, Flint House police treatment centre in Oxfordshire (temporarily) closed its doors to offi
Core functions: the real value of neighbourhood policing
Blogs, Neighbourhood policing
In the months preceding the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), the language used to describe
Promotion barriers to and at chief officer level – findings from my own research
Blogs
During 2013 and 2014 I worked with colleagues from Birkbeck College and University College London on
Police officers aren’t getting younger every year, and there’s a debate to be had about the implications
Blogs, Workforce
The Home Office recently published the latest Police Workforce Statistics for England and Wales (cov
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