Features

OPINION: Policing blogger and serving police officer "Nathan Constable" scrutinises the College of Policing proposals on degrees for police officers

OPINION: Retired police officer Alan Wright provides a "thirty year experience" perspective on the College of Policing's plans for policing degrees

OPINION: Roy Swales, UKIP's PCC candidate for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, argues that "life experience is more valuable than a degree when it comes to policing"

OPINION: Independent policing commentator Cate Moore argues for more support from the College of Policing for a "dedicated, talented, exceptional workforce"

OPINION: Dr John Hayward of tensABILITY examines Government proposals to change the way police complaints are handled

OPINION: Jon Collins, of the Restorative Justice Council, provides the background to research into barriers to women's participation in restorative justice

ANALYSIS: Bernard Rix identifies the key extracts from the Home Secretary's speech earlier this week to a Reform think tank audience

OPINION: Kent PCC Ann Barnes gives her views on the Home Office's police funding formula 'consultation'

OPINION: Peter Neyroud, of the University of Cambridge, considers the implications of today's Home Office retreat

ANALYSIS: Key extracts from the NPCC's paper on police funding and police demand, submitted to the Home Affairs Select Committee

ANALYSIS: An article co-authored by John Tizard for The Consultation Institute examines "the English devolution project" - with direct relevance for policing and PCCs

EXCLUSIVE: Policing Insight provides an exclusive analysis of the nine questions put to the Home Office about their flawed revisions to the Police Funding Formula, and the answers they provided

OPINION: CI Simon Nelson, Chairman of the Sussex Police Disability and Carers Association, argues that the disabled must not be overlooked as police numbers fall

OPINION: PC Rory Geoghegan, a frontline Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police, considers the positive effect of community policing

ANALYSIS: Peter Neyroud of the University of Cambridge examines the use of Randomised Control Trials in evidence-based policing research

ANALYSIS: Barry Loveday, Reader in Criminal Justice Administration at the University of Portsmouth, examines changes in the balance of power in police governance

ANALYSIS: Greater Manchester Police ACC Ian Wiggett examines why forces find themselves affected in very different ways by police funding pressures

OPINION: Independent policing commentator Cate Moore assesses the assessor...

OPINION: Dr James Hanley, Associate Professor of Political Science at Adrian College, Michigan, USA, examines limits to private policing

OPINION: Lee Simpson and Max Worth of Deloitte report on a five-force event to produce "mind-blowing apps"

OPINION: Dorset PCC Martyn Underhill provides his perspective on HMIC's Police Effectiveness, Efficiency and Legitimacy (PEEL) Report, published last week

OPINION: Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt responds to the RCA's independent report, "Safer together: Policing a global city in 2020"

ANALYSIS: Roy Wilsher, Hertfordshire's Chief Fire Officer and Chief Exec of Hertfordshire OPCC, examines some of the challenges ahead of further fire and police collaboration

ANALYSIS: Andy Higgins of the Police Foundation looks at the challenge police face in being empathetic to victims whilst reserving judgement during the investigation