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What’s happening to crime?
Blogs, Burglary, Cybercrime, Sexual assault, Violent crime
Crime’s still going down and criminologists are puzzled. The latest criminal statistics showed...
It’s the economy, stupid! Why crime isn’t at the top of people’s ‘worry list’
Blogs, Governance
During 2007, more people polled by Ipsos MORI identified crime as one of the most important issues f...
Measuring peace
Blogs, Uncategorised
Yesterday witnessed the launch of the UK Peace Index, which offers an analysis of the levels of peac...
Direct entry: don’t throw the baby out with the bath water
Blogs, Workforce
With the Home Office consultation having closed at the end of March, work is now presumably underway...
Policing and diversity
Blogs, Workforce
Diversity in the police was again in the news recently following comments by Irene Curtis, the new P...
Young people: over-policed and under-protected
Blogs, Children and young people
The current generation of young people is taking the brunt of the recession with all its devastating...
Police morale is a real issue
Blogs, Workforce
The results of a survey of officers in Avon and Somerset, reported in yesterday’s Daily Telegr...
Trust in the police
Blogs, Police legitimacy
Last Friday the pollsters Ipsos MORI published the results of the latest in their long-running serie...
Stalking figures: when ‘facts’ become ‘truth’
Blogs, Domestic abuse
While in the process of updating our Briefing on stalking, we continually saw it reported that there...
Draft Police and Crime Plan: MOPAC may need to think again
Blogs, Governance
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime’s draft Police and Crime Plan for 2013-2017 is...
Direct entry: a risky solution
Blogs, Workforce
The Home Office’s proposals for direct entry, initially set out in Tom Winsor’s review o...
Roads policing isn’t glamorous but it is important
Blogs, Roads policing
When we step into our cars none of us views ourselves as a potential killer, yet there are seven dea...
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