Announcement: Given the global pandemic, the World Class Policing Awards team regret to announce that the hugely successful World Class Policing Awards will now be postponed until 2022.

Australia Day Honours: We are pleased to publish and recognise the policing and criminal justice recipients of the 2021 Australia Day Honours. The team at Policing Insight offer our congratulations and thank all the recipients for their service and contribution to their communities, particularly in these challenging times.

New Year Honours: We are pleased to publish and recognise the policing recipients of the UK and overseas New Year Honours as well as the New Zealand Order of Merit. The team at Policing Insight offer our congratulations and thank all the recipients for their service in a particularly challenging year.

FREE SUBSCRIBER ACCESS: Policing Insight welcomes officers and staff from Warwickshire Police, who now have FREE access with the start of a new organisation wide subscription. They join a community of officers and staff from many other UK and international police forces with an interest in progressive policing. Read on to find out how to use your FREE subscriber access.

INTERVIEW: Incorporating new technology, collaborating with partners and maintaining social legitimacy are just some of the challenges facing Chile’s PDI in the future, explains Director General Héctor Espinosa, in the second half of his two-part interview with Policing Insight.

FREE SUBSCRIBER ACCESS: Policing Insight welcomes officers and staff from Victoria Police in Australia, who now have FREE access with the start of a new organisation wide subscription. They join a community of officers and staff from many other UK and international police forces with an interest in progressive policing. Read on to find out how to use your FREE subscriber access.

INTERVIEW: Chilean policing and society in general have undergone significant changes since the 1990s, and the country’s PDI police force is now regarded by citizens as one of the country’s must trusted and reliable institutions; in this two-part interview, Policing Insight spoke to PDI Director General Héctor Espinosa about the work of the force, the challenges it faces – nationally and internationally – and what the future may hold.

FREE SUBSCRIBER ACCESS: Students, academics and researchers – did you know that you may have FREE subscriber access to all articles and reports on Policing Insight? Not to mention access to Media Monitor, a daily news brief and searchable database of over 38,000 articles and reports from media, police and criminal justice organisations? Find out how to take advantage of this great service.

INTERVIEW: Peter Prater, Chair of the International Critical Control Rooms Alliance (ICCRA), chaired the inaugural global Control Room Summit in Amsterdam earlier this year. In this interview for Policing Insight, he discusses the changes he has seen in 35 years in control rooms, the potential to learn from other sectors, and the technologies he thinks will shape the future.

Announcement: Given the global pandemic, the World Class Policing Awards team regret to announce that the hugely successful World Class Policing Awards will now be postponed until 2021.

FREE SUBSCRIBER ACCESS: Policing Insight welcomes officers and staff from the National Crime Agency, who now have FREE access to Policing Insight with the start of a new organisation wide subscription. Policing Insight is now available FREE to officers and staff in many UK and international police forces and other police and criminal justice organisations. In addition many students and staff members have access via subscriptions at their academic institutions. Read on to find out how to use your FREE subscriber access.

INTERVIEW: Kenya has a long history of policing with excessive force, often resulting in unnecessary deaths. Recently, at least six people died from police violence during the first 10 days of a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Douglas Kivoi, an expert on police reform and policy, to shed light on the situation.

FREE SUBSCRIBER ACCESS: Policing Insight welcomes officers and staff from Bedfordshire Police, who now have FREE access to Policing Insight with the start of a new organisation wide subscription. Policing Insight is now available FREE to officers and staff in many UK forces and in other police and criminal justice organisations as well as to students and staff members in many academic institutions. Read on to find out how to use your FREE subscriber access.

INNOVATION: Victims of stalking are regularly asked to write down incidents of harassment, but keeping handwritten records can traumatic, deterring victims from coming forward. Driven by the desire to help law enforcement deliver a better service to stalking victims, CEO Christine Townsend developed Preserved, an app that allows easy capture of photos, video, emails, text messages and audio transcriptions.

NEW REPORT: Emergency calls to the police have continued to rise whilst 101 calls have fallen, according to CoPaCC's latest thematic - CoPaCC Police Contact Management: Demand Analysis Report - which examines trends and performance in UK call handling and online crime reporting over the last three years.

FREE SUBSCRIBER ACCESS: Policing Insight is now available FREE to police officers and staff in many forces as well as to students and staff members in many academic institutions. Read on to find out how to use your FREE subscriber access.

NEWS: The New Year Honours lists for 2020 recognise the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Many congratulations to those in and associated with policing who have been recognised this year...

NEW REPORT: CoPaCC publishes in-depth individual analyses of the police ICT provision in 10 police forces providing the largest response to the CoPaCC National Police ICT Survey in 2018. The 'Police ICT: Forces in Focus' reports are the latest in the CoPaCC Police ICT: User Perspectives series based on the Survey results. These reports are critical reading for anyone with an interest in improving police ICT provision.

Opinion: Last month, Sir George Hamilton, recently retired Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, delivered a keynote address at the annual Police Foundation conference. Published here in full, Sir George explores what the Peelian principle - 'the police are the public and public are the police' - means for 21st century policing.

NEWS: PHOTO GALLERY: We are delighted to share pictures from a fantastic awards evening recognising and celebrating truly World Class Policing from the UK and around the world.

NEWS: Many congratulations to Devon and Cornwall Police's brilliant Operation Encompass which was chosen from a truly outstanding field of 54 finalists from police departments and forces from across the globe to be crowned overall winner at the inaugural World Class Policing Awards.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The World Class Policing Awards are pleased to announce that Accenture have enhanced their support for the awards by becoming the lead sponsor of the inaugural 2019 event.

FREE ACCESS: Policing Insight welcomes officers and staff from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and from Suffolk Constabulary, who now have FREE access to Policing Insight with the start of new organisation wide subscriptions. Policing Insight is now available FREE to officers and staff in many UK forces and in other police and criminal justice organisations - read on to find out how to use your FREE subscriber access.

Announcement: Following rigorous judging of over 100 UK and overseas entries to the inaugural World Class Policing Awards, the shortlist of nominations has now been finalised! See if your force has made the final cut.