Police use of force tops 800,000 reports for first time

Police forces in England and Wales recorded more t...

Jun 5, 2026 @ 09:18

Norfolk PCC resigns with immediate effect following family diagnosis

The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Norfol...

Jun 5, 2026 @ 13:32

Cumbria officers unaware of sex predator's child contact ban

Officers investigating an online sexual predator w...

Jun 5, 2026 @ 08:32

NPCC race guidance under review as Nowak crisis deepens

The National Police Chiefs' Council has announced ...

Jun 4, 2026 @ 15:38

Devon and Cornwall Police rated inadequate for investigations and safeguarding

Devon and Cornwall Police has been rated inadequat...

Jun 3, 2026 @ 21:44

Herts Chief is ninth to take mandatory pension break

Hertfordshire's Chief Constable Andy Prophet has s...

Jun 3, 2026 @ 12:47

Select Vacancies

Deputy Chief Constable

Dorset Police

Assistant Chief Constable

Wiltshire Police
Feature

First lie wins

The murder of Henry Nowak has exposed a cognitive failure that has nothing to do with bad policing and everything to do with the exploitation of one of the most powerful and most underestimated forces...

Jun 4, 2026 @ 12:32
Academic insight

When policy becomes the story

Jun 4, 2026 @ 07:16

The NPCC's anti-racism commitment was rooted in good faith. The evidence that race and diversity training delivers what ...

Feature

Your power, your say

Jun 4, 2026 @ 05:52

The College of Policing is rewriting the national standards on stop and search for the first time in more than a decade....

Contributed view

Watched, not led

May 28, 2026 @ 11:07

The Metropolitan Police Service’s use of Palantir to identify internal risk h...

Feature

Seeing the light

May 28, 2026 @ 06:50

For decades, every police force in England and Wales has designed its own blue light warning system for emergency vehicl...

Academic insight

Searching questions

May 28, 2026 @ 05:35

New research has found black detainees are significantly more likely than white detainees to be strip searched in police...

Feature

Punished twice

May 27, 2026 @ 14:39

A landmark report exposes the systemic failure that turns domestic abuse victims into criminal defendants and asks why p...

Copyright © 2026 Police Professional