Latest News, Analysis and Opinion  (Page 219)

ANALYSIS: Kent PCC Ann Barnes describes the impact of Operation Stack on Kent residents and Police - and identifies a glimmer of hope from between the clouds

ANALYSIS: South Wales PCC Alun Michael reflects on a multi-agency campaign in Cardiff and Swansea to combat a culture of heavy drinking associated with sport

IN THE NEWS: Michelle Newell reviews the week’s key policing news, both national and local - including stories from Kent, West Midlands, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Avon & Somerset, Greater Manchester - and Magaluf.

ANALYSIS: Joyce Plotnikoff (pictured with Richard Woolfson) examines benefits to policing of the use of registered intermediaries in court

NEWS: Policing Insight launches a new policing "Media Monitor" to help you track the policing developments that really matter

OPINION: Kent PCC Ann Barnes responds to the Taxpayers' Alliance report on OPCC spending

OPINION: Dyfed-Powys PCC Christopher Salmon responds to the Taxpayers' Alliance report on OPCC spending

NEWSLINK: The Taxpayers' Alliance report suggests "potential PCC savings could put 1200 bobbies on the beat".

OPINION: Surrey Deputy PCC Jeff Harris responds to the Taxpayers' Alliance report on OPCC spending

OPINION: Police blogger "Nathan Constable" considers implications for the Peelian Principles of the public response to possible changes to burglary investigation

OPINION: Charlotte Pickles of the Reform think-tank responds to media coverage of the NPCC Chief's recent remarks on burglary investigation, and suggests a mature debate is needed about prioritising police activity

IN THE NEWS: Michelle Newell reviews the week’s key policing news, both national and local - including stories from City of London, Derbyshire, Lancashire, the Met, Norfolk, North Wales, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, West Midlands and Wiltshire.

ANALYSIS: Bernard Rix, CoPaCC CEO, finds that some political parties have already started the race to elect PCCs in May 2016

ANALYSIS: Bernard Rix, CoPaCC's CEO, examines the winning bids for a share of the College of Policing's £10 million Police Knowledge Fund

OPINION: Andy Higgins, the Police Foundation's Senior Analyst, identifies some challenges for the Advisory Group's vision of policing - including on governance

ANALYSIS: Gavin Hales, Deputy Director of the Police Foundation, introduces the Foundation's analysis of the Home Office's police funding consultation

REPORT: Download the latest report covering policing and police and crime commissioner activity during July.

OPINION: Serving police officer "Nathan Constable" looks at the impact of police budget cuts, focusing on officer and staff welfare

ANALYSIS: Marc Hole, Head of Commissioning and Partnerships in Avon & Somerset OPCC, reviews work putting in place local support services for victims of crime.

OPINION: Surrey PCC Kevin Hurley examines how the current situation at Eurotunnel's French terminus impacts on policing - and more - this side of the Channel Tunnel

OPINION: Sam Chapman, editor of PCC election website TopOfTheCops.com, gives his views on the IPCC investigation into the Lancashire PCC's expenses claims

IN THE NEWS: Michelle Newell reviews the week’s key policing news, both national and local

ANALYSIS: Police Foundation Director, Rick Muir, considers the implications of Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council Sara Thornton's "Re-imagining Policing" speech last week

ANALYSIS: The Centre for Public Scrutiny's Ed Hammond examines implications for Police and Crime Panels of the Committee for Standards in Public Life's recent policing report