Workforce

Projects

Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales – Call for Evidence

Themes: Governance, Police effectiveness, Police legitimacy, Police resources, Workforce
Published: 8th October 2019
The Police Foundation has launched a Call for Evidence. This is the first part of its major, independent Review of Policing in England and Wales. The overall aim of the...

The Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales

Themes: Governance, Police effectiveness, Police legitimacy, Police resources, Public policy, Workforce
Published: 6th September 2019

Police workforce wellbeing and organisational development

Themes: Governance, Mental health, Workforce
Published: 4th March 2019
Police wellbeing Evidence shows that the wellbeing and morale of police officers has declined since 2010. Austerity and cuts to the core police budget have played a role, but there...

A study on the future of neighbourhood policing

Themes: Neighbourhood policing, Police legitimacy, Workforce
Published: 21st May 2018

Publications

Perspectives on policing: Lessons learnt from the decline in volunteer policing in Massachusetts

Published: 10th April 2025
By The Police Foundation
Related themes: Volunteering, Workforce
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Perspectives on policing: A diversity uplift? Police workforce and ethnicity trends

Published: 28th January 2020
By Gavin Hales
Related themes: Governance, Police legitimacy, Workforce
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Perspectives on policing: Running on empty – reinvigorating policing through ‘what matters’

Published: 15th July 2019
Related themes: Governance, Neighbourhood policing, Police effectiveness, Police legitimacy, Workforce
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Police workforce wellbeing and organisational development

Published: 26th February 2019
By Kieran Lewis
Related themes: Governance, Police effectiveness, Workforce
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Prioritisation in a changing world

Published: 2nd September 2016
By Gavin Hales and Andy Higgins
Related themes: Police effectiveness, Police resources, Workforce
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Blog posts and news

Where have all the Special Constables gone, and what can we do about it? (long read)

Themes: Blogs, Workforce
Published: 15th January 2024
CJ Marshall – Special Assistant Chief Officer, Metropolitan Special Constabulary; Trustee, Association of Special Constabulary Officers and Police Foundation Practitioner Fellow   Dr Iain Britton – Visiting Fellow, Insitute for...

As a Pakistani Muslim senior police leader I should not be a rarity

Themes: Blogs, Police culture, Police leadership, Police legitimacy, Workforce
Published: 24th November 2023

Welfare or well unfair: are sickness absence policies in policing counterproductive to the welfare agenda?

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Police wellbeing, Workforce
Published: 29th January 2018

Reflecting on the MOPAC evaluation of Police Now’s first cohort

Themes: Blogs, Police leadership, Workforce
Published: 25th January 2018

Police pay: service fears and tin ears

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Police resources, Workforce
Published: 14th September 2017
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