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Sixty years after the last one, is now the time for a Royal Commission into policing in England and Wales?

SUBSCRIBE 13th April 2023Tom Andrews, Lecturer in Policing, University of Derby  2 Comments
With concerns over the ever-expanding police mission and political interference in policing, continuing doubts about the efficacy of the 43-force structure in England and Wales, anger over pay and conditions and a legitimacy crisis reminiscent of that of the late 1950s, a new Royal Commission into policing could be the best way to determine what we expect of the police service, and how it is going to achieve those aims, argues former officer and University of Derby Policing Lecturer Tom Andrews.

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