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Stop and search – getting it right
Blogs, Police legitimacy, Stop and search
Asking individuals to account for their presence or behaviour is an integral part of everyday polici...
Multi-Agency case management: evidence and orthodoxy
Blogs, Police effectiveness, Violent crime
Policing is undergoing substantial mission change. Where acquisitive crime rates and safety on the s...
Robocops: are the police robots coming?
Blogs, Digital technology, Police resources
In Paul Verhoeven’s dystopian 1987 film Robocop a Detroit police officer is gunned down and tr...
Organised crime on the doorstep – crime groups operating in the adult sex market
Blogs, Organised crime, Sexual assault
A Police Foundation and Perpetuity Research study has revealed that organised crime plays a major ro...
Great expectations: what do the public want from the police?
Blogs, Police legitimacy
What do the public expect of the police? At a time of limited resources and shifting demand police f...
Spit hoods – a question of transparency
Blogs, Police legitimacy
I must admit I’d not heard of spit hoods until earlier this year when I read reports that the ...
Falling police morale: “dry your eyes” is no answer
Blogs, Workforce
‘Dry your eyes’. Three simple words as part of a late night Twitter chat that landed PSN...
So a large portion of fraud is linked to organised crime – what are the implications for the police?
Blogs, Cybercrime, Fraud, Organised crime
To many practitioners, it cannot come as too much of a surprise that lots of fraud has its roots in ...
The changing world, not funding cuts is the greatest test the police face
Blogs, Cybercrime, Police resources
Yesterday the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released statistics confirming that crime has chan...
Policing after Brexit
Blogs, Governance, Public policy
The decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union is likely to be the biggest political...
Should officers being investigated for misconduct be allowed to apply for promotion?
Blogs, Workforce
Amidst the fallout following the verdicts in the Hillsborough inquests, one story that garnered medi...
A window of opportunity for sensible debate? The fall in crime as a national concern for the public
Blogs, Police legitimacy
Every month Ipsos MORI asks a representative sample of around 1,000 adults across Great Britain what...