13th June 2016
NEWS: A share of the £1 billion available through the Home Office's policing transformation funds will in due course be awarded to the best bids. CoPaCC's CEO, Bernard Rix suggests how, OPCCs, forces and their partners can increase their chances of submitting successful proposals.
ANALYSIS: The police service is the latest sector to launch an innovative initiative to tempt the best and brightest graduates into its ranks. But what can graduate fast-trackers bring to public services? Caoimhe Udom analyses the outcome of a recent panel discussion held by the Institute for Government.
OPINION: In the last of our blog posts celebrating Volunteers' Week, Tina Shelton outlines how Employer-Supported Policing can bring massive benefits to businesses and other employers as well as to the police.
ANALYSIS: What can be achieved and delivered by volunteers in policing? In the sixth of our blogs celebrating volunteers' week, Dr Matt Callender of the University of Northampton outlines two exciting new research projects aimed at understanding the activities and skills of Special Constables.
OPINION: Colin Pipe was the first (and so far the only) Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner to hold office as a volunteer. In the fifth of our blogs celebrating Volunteers' Week, he argues that service - and therefore volunteering - should be at the heart of everything that PCCs do.
ANALYSIS: Who are the people that volunteer to support their police service? What is their contribution to policing? And what about their relationships with the police officers and staff who work alongside them? In the fourth of our blogs celebrating Volunteers' Week, Melissa Pepper explores the evidence.
OPINION: In the wake of a recent @wecops discussion on the role of sergeants, Emma Williams of Canterbury Christ Church University examines the nature of leadership at sergeant level in the changing social landscape of policing.
ANALYSIS: What is the role of local authorities in the fight against organised crime? Ahead of a Public Policy Exchange event on 7th June, Dr Anna Sergi of the University of Essex warns that none of our communities are immune from the threat.
OPINION: As National Volunteers' Week commences across the UK today, Iain Britton, of the Institute for Public Safety, Crime and Justice, talks about the huge contribution volunteers make across policing and the potential for police volunteering in the future.
ANALYSIS: New media guidelines proposed by the College of Policing could impose strict new rules on contacts between police officers and journalists. Carina O'Reilly asks if they will protect the police, or smother vital relationships built on mutual understanding.
OPINION: Protecting vulnerable people is the new 'volume demand' in policing. Chief Superintendent Gavin Thomas, Vice President of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, outlines the need for a consistent approach to vulnerability.
ANALYSIS: Ahead of the imminent, potentially massive, changes to Fire and Rescue Service organisation and structure, former Editor of Policing Today Philip Mason asks if the government has learnt from mistakes made during its parallel reform of the Police Service
