Latest News, Analysis and Opinion  (Page 172)

Insight: Criminals prey on the elderly. Coinciding with World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Katy Bourne, Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex looks at the scale of the problem in her force area and how Operation Signature is helping to protect the elderly from fraud.

News: The Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire, Mark-Burns-Williamson, has teamed up with police, academics and software developers across Europe to reduce the risks from cyber fraud. Andrew Staniforth, Andrew Staniforth, Head of West Yorkshire for Innovation, takes us through Project Aries.

Analysis: Policing Insight launches a unique ‘tracker’ and a series of special articles examining the progress of Police and Crime Commissioners as they assume joint governance over police and fire services in their areas. In the first of the series, Catherine Levin takes a look at the runners and riders and discovers that currently 'the east has it'.

Latest update: UPDATED 12TH AUGUST 2019: A regular series of articles and this useful tracker of the PCCs’ activity and progress. This update reflects the outcomes of the judicial reviews in Cambridgeshire and West Mercia. Gloucestershire were also informed that their business case would not be reviewed before the 2020 PCC elections.

ELECTION REACTION: Another in our series of exclusive articles following the result of the General Election. Eleven years ago, Leicestershire Police had one officer for every 430 citizens - it's one officer for every 599 citizens now. Simon Cole QPM, the force's Chief Constable, looks at the substantial financial challenge facing PCCs and Chiefs.

ELECTION REACTION: Continuing our series of exclusive articles following the result of the General Election, former Chief Constable Stuart Hyde suggests "now is the time to reach out, canvass and cajole, influence and inform, to seek some remedy to the lack of police funding"

Analysis: Recent events in London and Manchester have renewed the debate on extremism within the UK and how it should be dealt with. Dr Mark Roycroft, author of  Police Chiefs in the UK, Politicians, HR managers or Cops? (2017) examines the current approach to counter terrorism.

ELECTION REACTION: In the first of a series of exclusive articles following the result of the General Election, Dafydd Llywelyn, Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed Powys discusses the implications for the review of the police funding formula.

ANALYSIS: Jack Greig-Midlane of Cardiff University examines the likely impact of the General Election result on the Conservative "Police Reform" project, instigated by Theresa May during her time as Home Secretary.

ANALYSIS: Bernard Rix, Policing Insight's Publisher, provides a first look at what the Hung Parliament means for policing and security

Insight: Two years after the Modern Slavery Act 2015 was enacted, prosecutions for trafficking are rising, but remain in their hundreds. Given there were estimated to be between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of slavery in the UK in 2014, the conviction rate remains woefully low. So, what needs to change?

OPINION: In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks on the UK, Emma Williams of Canterbury Christ Church University says thank you to those officers who warned the public that police numbers were too low, and who are now working full stretch to protect us.

IN THE NEWS: This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts - plus a short guide outlining how serving police officers and staff can get access, free, to many of the articles listed through the National Police Library.

ANALYSIS: Once again horrific terrorist attacks have taken place in the UK - and once again, the public sector's communications staff have stepped up to the mark to keep the public calm and informed. Dan Slee of comms2point0 analyses the public sector comms response to the Manchester attack.

OPINION: Bernard Rix, Policing Insight's Publisher, with his thoughts on the key implications for policing following the three terrorist attacks, in Manchester and London, over the last three months.

Opinion: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is planned to become legislation in the United Kingdom on 25 May, 2018. The UK government has confirmed that the UK’s decision to leave the EU will have no impact on the enactment of the GDPR within the UK. Robert de Souza, Associate Partner at Chaucer Digital which works with the Home Office, the NPCC, Police ICT Company as well as police forces, explores the implications of this decision. 

ANALYSIS: Jon Collins, Chief Executive of the Restorative Justice Council, takes a look at the commitment the party manifestos are making so far to restorative justice.

OPINION: Do scripts - and other similar prescriptive frameworks - undermine police officers' ability to think for themselves? Emma Williams of Canterbury Christ Church University argues that officers need to be able to be human, and to make mistakes, and flags up CCCU's June conference on barriers to change.

IN THE NEWS: This summary curates the key policing-related research that's been published online in the last week, with links to the original journal articles, and selected abstracts - plus a short guide outlining how serving police officers and staff can get access, free, to many of the articles listed through the National Police Library.

Interview: Innovative work in Scotland has helped drastically drive down rates of violence, including knife crime. As England’s capital sees sharp increases in gun and knife crime, around 42 and 24 per cent,  according to recent figures released by the Metropolitan Police, can Scotland's experience shed light on how to tackle such a devastating crime? Will Linden, Acting Director at the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) which works with Police Scotland, speaks to Policing Insight.  

Interview: In our continuing series on Police and Crime Comissioners, Dyfed-Powys PCC Dafydd Llywelyn looks back on his first year in office.

OPINION: A serving police officer questioned the Prime Minister on the "devastating effects of police cuts" on last night's Channel 4 & Sky News "May v Corbyn" election programme. Alison Hernandez, Devon and Cornwall's PCC, responds exclusively for Policing Insight with her perspective on police spending.

ANALYSIS: The seventh of a monthly series in which CoPaCC's Sandra Andrews takes a look at some of the most interesting and topical issues that Police and Crime Panels across England and Wales are dealing with. This month, Sandra looks at the scrutiny arrangements for the new Metro Mayors as some of them take over the responsibilities of Police an Crime Commissioners.

OPINION: Some vulnerable individuals can contact the police disproportionately often. Supt. Andrea Barrow and Prof. Stuart Kirby of the University of Central Lancashire explain how Lancashire Constabulary has worked together with partners to set up Early Action Teams to deal with vulnerable callers.