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Academic insight

Is the police workplace safe?

As assault rates rise and officer safety training hours fall, the gap between what the law requires of police employers and what they are providing is narrowing. The courts have begun to notice.

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The system that lets drug drivers slip through

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Laboratory delays, stretched roads policing and dangerously low public awareness are allowing a worsening threat to outp...

Evidence brief

Flushed out

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Wastewater analysis is providing an unprecedented picture of illicit drug use in England. The latest findings suggest ke...

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Who governs the algorithm?

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Given the special nature of policing by consent in England and Wales, legitimacy in the machine age cannot be maintained...

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Why police leadership needs more than tough talk

Jun 11, 2026 @ 10:16

When policing frames its cultural failures as a problem of bad individuals, the solution becomes finding and removing ba...

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Why investigative tech needs a frontline focus

Jun 11, 2026 @ 09:02

Investigators face growing volumes of digital evidence, rising compliance demands and increasing administrative workload...

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The second voice

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In a companion piece to First lie wins, which looked at the impact of cognitive bias in the Henry Nowak case, G...

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