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Government dragging its feet on stop and search
Blogs, Police legitimacy, Stop and search
Last week Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper threw the Labour Party’s weight behind reform of...
CCTV: money well spent?
Blogs, Digital technology, Police resources
Last week the Guardian revealed that the number of police ANPR (automated number-plate recognition) ...
The Stevens report: A curate’s egg?
Blogs, Governance, Police reform, Police resources
The report of the Labour-backed Stevens Commission on policing was finally published this week. Two ...
The National Crime Agency goes live
Blogs, Governance, Organised crime
Earlier this month a new era began in the fight against serious and organised crime. As well as the ...
Police body worn cameras – let’s tread carefully
Blogs, Digital technology
David Davis’ article in yesterday’s Times has kicked off a debate about the potential to...
Domestic Violence Inspection: Blinkered but not quite blind?
Blogs, Domestic abuse
On 6th September the Home Secretary, Theresa May, asked Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabu...
PCCs’ election spending
Blogs, Governance
Earlier this week the Electoral Commission released information on the money spent by Police and Cri...
Cyber-bullying: getting our priorities right
Blogs, Cybercrime
“It was like she’d hit someone, but in a different way”. (Girl aged 15 on witnessi...
E-crime: the new ‘genie’ on the block
Blogs, Cybercrime
The biggest genie of them all has finally been let out of the bottle. The House of Commons Home Affa...
Is crime really going down?
Blogs, Burglary, Cybercrime, Sexual assault, Violent crime
The latest crime statistics show that crime, as measured by the Crime Survey for England and Wales (...
Section 136 and the use of police cells
Blogs, Mental health
In an interview with the Today Programme last week, a young woman described her experience of being ...
To stop or not to stop
Blogs, Police legitimacy, Stop and search
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has just published its report, Stop and Think Again, on its...
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