Inspectors found that custody staff and officers had limited contact with senior leaders and that communication on safety issues was not effective or consistent, meaning problems were not always ...

More than 200 people have been arrested after a national operation targeting organised vehicle crime, as police warned that the illicit trade in stolen vehicle parts is becoming an increasingly ...

The Police Federation of England and Wales described the review as a “watershed moment” for the service, urging the Government to fund reforms and warning policing cannot afford to lose any more ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 270 individuals have been linked to a single online forum and its successors as part of a new coordinated national response to organised drug-facilitated sexual assault (ODFSA), the National ...

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 ...

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 ...