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Executive

Pathway to local policing

The second reading of the Crime and Policing Bill has been delivered to Parliament. Steve Dodd looks at the challenges ahead for community intelligence policing through its contribution to the Safer S...

Mar 13, 2025 @ 15:38
Executive

Balancing act

Feb 27, 2025 @ 16:11

Steve Dodd says the Government’s flagship Crime and Policing Bill will have a monumental effect on UK policing. The le...

Executive

Power of prevention

Feb 27, 2025 @ 07:33

Seth Cooke, a former Senior Intelligence Analyst and Business Intelligence Developer for Avon an...

Executive

Small things matter

Feb 25, 2025 @ 16:08

According to the public, police are failing to deliver a ‘minimum standard of service’, says Professor Adam Crawford...

Executive

Intelligence and trust in neighbourhoods

Feb 24, 2025 @ 15:44

In this the second of an occasional series of articles, Steve Dodd examines community intelligence-led policing methodol...

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Innovation winner announced

Feb 6, 2025 @ 13:46

Police Professional is proud to announce its 2024 Innovation in Policing winner: an approach to make communitie...

Executive

Optimising local intelligence

Feb 4, 2025 @ 12:58

Steve Dodd explains how intelligence-led neighbourhood policing can help tackle the levels of criminality that communiti...

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