TVP assigning rape cases to unqualified investigators, inspection finds

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Staffordshire Police 999 response rated inadequate again

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Drivers caught at up to 114mph on 30mph roads, RAC data reveals

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Merseyside Police left cell door safety issue unresolved for six months

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Organised crime drives shift in UK vehicle theft, police warn

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Policing bodies respond to leadership commission findings

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Road to reform

New direction?

A landmark commission report finds police leadership training lagging the military by decades, chief officer misconduct cases mountin...

Jul 6, 2026 @ 10:07
Academic insight

Does traffic drive street crime?

2 hours ago

New research finds that rising traffic volumes are linked to higher reported vandalism, burglary and violence. For force...

Road to reform

Root and branch

Jul 6, 2026 @ 09:05

The Police Leadership Commission's 27 recommendations, from a professional digital passport to a shake-up of chief const...

Wellbeing

Waiting to break

Jul 3, 2026 @ 09:44

The PSNI knows which roles carry the greatest psychological risk. What it lacks, and can't currently fund, is any way of...

Feature

Nobody asked about the warrant

Jul 2, 2026 @ 13:18

A coroner has found that officers from the Metropolitan Police Service misunderstood their own powers to detain a man in...

Evidence brief

Out of sight: why patchy NHS data sharing is now a...

Jul 2, 2026 @ 10:57

When police and paramedics attended Edward Muwanga on the night he died, neither could see his full mental health histor...

Evidence brief

Falling grades, rising risk: what pupil records re...

Jul 2, 2026 @ 06:59

New research suggests a slump in exam performance may be one of the clearest and most scalable early warning signs of fu...

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