Analysis

ANALYSIS: Former Greater Manchester ACC Ian Wiggett provides a considered response to an academic paper that, according to the Times today, has "caused fury by comparing bobbies to binmen"

ANALYSIS: Bernard Rix, CoPaCC Chief Executive, writes to recently elected Police and Crime Commissioners

ANALYSIS: Carina O'Reilly provides a powerful analysis of the lessons that policing really must learn following the Hillsborough Inquest verdict.

ANALYSIS: Sarah Ellson, Partner and head of Fieldfisher's Public and Regulatory Law Group, sets out some legal considerations for PCCs in their appointment of Deputy and Assistant PCCs.

ANALYSIS: Download and print our useful at-a-glance infographics mapping the 2016 PCC Elections results and comparing them with 2012.

ANALYSIS: Professor Michael Rowe reviews the 2016 PCC Elections and argues that despite a higher turnout and mandate, the PCC model of police accountability still has much to prove.

ANALYSIS: Jon Harvey analyses voting data from elections on Thursday, May 5th.

ANALYSIS: Adam Simmonds, stepping down as Northamptonshire's PCC this Wednesday, looks back on his time as Commissioner

ANALYSIS: Met Sergeant Ed Cudmore, an MSc student at Canterbury Christ Church University, introduces the first empirical study into humour in policing

PCC ELECTION RESULTS: Policing Insight's fully interactive map of the complete PCC election results 2016, with winner, runner-up, percentage vote shares and turnout.

PCC ELECTION RESULTS: Policing Insight's rolling coverage of the PCC Elections, spanning Polling Day and the results.

ANALYSIS: As we enter PCC Election Week 2016, 102 of the 187 candidates have so far signed the Committee on Standards in Public Life's 'ethical checklist'.

ANALYSIS: Lucy Jaffe, of "Why me?", introduces her organisation's review of PCCs' funding of restorative justice during their first term in office

ANALYSIS: Linda Bryant, Director of Criminal Justice Services at Together for Mental Wellbeing, examines how newly elected PCCs can tackle head on the issues of victimisation, offending, mental health and the lack of appropriate local care for people in distress

ANALYSIS: Former HMI Robin Field-Smith examines why there have been problems in attracting candidates for Chief Constable positions, and offers some pointers for newly elected PCCs

ANALYSIS: Alix Rejman, Director of Public Regulatory for leading law firm Fieldfisher, identifies the early legal pitfalls awaiting our new PCCs

ANALYSIS: Jon Collins, Chief Executive of the Restorative Justice Council, examines the role of PCCs in ensuring that victims of crime can access restorative justice

ANALYSIS: Iain Britton, from the Institute for Public Safety Crime and Justice, reflects on his attendance at the national Specials Conference, held in Chepstow on the 22nd-24th April.

ANALYSIS: Bernard Rix, CoPaCC Chief Executive, looks ahead to CoPaCC's next four years

ANALYSIS: Andy Higgins, the Police Foundation's Senior Analyst, examines difficulties the police have in deciding what they should believe and when they should believe it

ANALYSIS: Policing Insight has - with readers' help - compiled a list of timings of the PCC counts following PCC elections on Thursday, May 5th

ANALYSIS: Sandra Andrews examines the College of Policing's recent consultation on proposals to introduce academic recognition for both existing workforce and new joiners

ANALYSIS: Stephen Roberts of Vigilant Research examines the Metropolitan Police's invitation to tender for a new integrated case, custody, intelligence and investigation system

ANALYSIS: Carina O'Reilly, a Doctoral Researcher at Anglia Ruskin University, examines the list of confirmed PCC candidates, and speaks to some of the (very few) female candidates