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What are the police for (now)?
Blogs, Governance, Police resources
What are the police for and how can they best achieve their goals in an age of austerity and social ...
A healthy lead? Chief officer appointments need questioning
Blogs, Governance, Workforce
In recent weeks the Deputy Chief Constables of Thames Valley, Northumbria, Staffordshire and Wiltshi...
A dialogue of the deaf: The debate about police cuts
Blogs, Police resources
Yesterday’s National Audit Office report on the “financial sustainability of police forc...
Five years on…key themes in policing
Blogs, Police reform, Public policy
It is nearly five years since I started my blog and sadly this one will be my last. I will be standi...
Cuts have consequences
Blogs, Police resources
Last week the Police Federation held its annual conference entitled ‘The Policing Challenge: C...
2015 election: what the parties have to say about policing
Blogs, Governance
The political parties have now (finally)published their manifestosand the final phase of electioneer...
A property crime epidemic?
Blogs, Burglary
At the beginning of this month, Policy Exchange, a right-of-centre think tank, published a report ca...
The shifting sands of recorded crime
Blogs, Burglary, Sexual assault, Violent crime
Last month the Evening Standard newspaper reported “Violent crime in London soars by 22 per ce...
Transforming policing
Blogs, Police effectiveness, Police reform
In my last blog I referred to the challenges that the changing world, especially the ubiquity of the...
Policing in a changing world
Blogs, Police effectiveness
It has become commonplace to refer to a rapidly changing world when discussing some of the challenge...
Stop and search: Tactical bias is affecting police legitimacy
Blogs, Police legitimacy, Stop and search
In her speech at the recent Conservative Party Annual Conference, the Home Secretary made the reform...
What works in policing domestic abuse?
Blogs, Domestic abuse
Last week the Police Foundation held its annual conference on Innovations inpolicingdomestic abuse. ...