PCCs and Police Governance: One failed experiment after another?

Published: 14th November 2025

Abolishing PCCs leaves big questions about future police oversight. Will mayors and new Boards strengthen accountability—or repeat the failures of old systems?

The Met must reinvent itself – or die

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Learning and development, Performance management, Police legitimacy

Published: 21st March 2023

Better run organisations can improve police officers’ wellbeing

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Police culture, Police wellbeing

Published: 1st March 2019

Policing at an impasse: between a reform rock and a governance hard place

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Police resources

Published: 4th December 2018

Wanted: a national strategy for policing

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Police resources, Public policy

Published: 11th September 2018

Modernising neighbourhood policing guidelines: big cogs turning

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Neighbourhood policing

Published: 4th July 2018

PEEL Effectiveness and neighbourhood policing: Tugging at the bed-sheet?

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Neighbourhood policing

Published: 27th March 2018

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

Police pay: service fears and tin ears

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Police resources, Workforce

Published: 14th September 2017

Police governance: considering Crompton

Themes: Blogs, Governance, Police legitimacy

Published: 14th July 2017

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