The report’s central structural proposal is a National Academy of Police Leadership, to sit within the new National Police Service as what the Commission calls a “system owner” for leadership — ...

A clear, shared national definition and set of principles of police leadership, to be developed further by the proposed National Academy of Police Leadership. Workforce, data and evaluation Work ...

Sir Andy Marsh, the College’s chief executive, described the report as the most comprehensive examination of police leadership in a generation. He said: “Policing is one of the most dangerous jobs you ...

Commissioned by the College of Policing in the context of declining public confidence in the police, the review, which Lord Blunkett co-authored with the former Conservative policing minister Lord ...

Figures published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency show PSNI officers carried out 18,096 stop and searches in the year to 31 March 2025, a fall of 28 per cen ...

The service introduced an automated system that notifies officers after they have used force on a member of the public, prompting them to either complete a use-of-force form or formally close the ...

Out of sight: why patchy NHS data sharing is now a policing problem. When police and paramedics attended Edward Muwanga on ...

The study’s authors are careful not to claim that falling grades cause offending. Attainment, they argue, functions as a signal rather than a driver — a visible marker of underlying difficulties that ...

A Wiltshire Police officer has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting assaulting a 13-year-old boy outside a police station, following an investigation by the Independent Office for ...

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched an independent investigation into the police response to the death of a man who became seriously unwell in Stoke-on-Trent last month. Jul ...

What they didn’t know, and didn’t ask, was that a warrant already existed to take Edward Muwanga into hospital by force. It had been granted four days earlier. The information was sitting in the ...

That is down from over a year in previous inspections, pointing to genuine, hard-won progress, but it is still four months for someone whose job has already started to break something in them. Recent ...