Features

BOOK EXTRACT: Policing Insight is delighted to publish an extract from Tom Gash's book, "Criminal: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things".

ANALYSIS: Charlotte Pickles, Deputy Director and Head of Research at Reform, introduces the think tank's latest report on offender management, and examines its implications for PCCs

ANALYSIS: As the 'cutting season' begins, Avon & Somerset Constabulary's DCI Leanne Pook looks at how policing responds to Female Genital Mutilation

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

OPINION: Jonathan Clifton, IPPR's Associate Director for Public Services, looks forward to PCCs' playing a much broader role in the criminal justice system

OPINION: Cop and comic Alfie Moore takes a wry look at PCCs, last week's elections and what lies ahead for those voted in...

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

OPINION: Serving officer 'Nathan Constable' argues that following the failings of Hillsborough, the argument that officers shouldn't be punished for the decisions of a small few all that time ago is pointless and wrong.

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.

OPINION: Howard Jones takes a historical perspective in comparing the roles of PCCs and the police authorities they replaced

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.

OPINION: Barrie Sheldon, former Deputy PCC for West Mercia, reflects on being defeated as an Independent candidate in the PCC elections

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

OPINION: Christine Townsend, Founder and CEO of MusterPoint, offers some thoughts and encouragement for newly elected PCCs

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'.

OPINION: CoPaCC Chief Executive Bernard Rix reflects on PCC-related implications following the Hillsborough inquest verdict

OPINION: Jon Harvey revisits his "Secret Diary of a PCC" series - essential reading for any PCC candidate 'at risk' of being elected...

OPINION: Chief Superintendent John Sutherland continues his personal reflections on The Job