Government

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

NEWS BRIEF: The Policing Minister announces that police funding for 2016/17 will be under the current formula

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

ANALYSIS: Policing Insight provides an exclusive analysis of how the Home Office's mistakes in applying its own new formula will impact on police force funding

EXCLUSIVE: Our exclusive insight into Chief Constables' views on compulsory redundancy, drawing on the NPCC submission to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2015

NEWS BRIEF: Policing Minister introduces revisions to this year's Police Innovation Fund, with submissions due by Friday 18th December 2015.

OPINION: Police blogger "Nathan Constable" makes a start on the Case File...

ANALYSIS: Simon Bullock analyses the latest letter from the Home Office on proposed revisions to the police funding formula. Which force fares best - and which worst?

NEWS: Policing Insight exclusively reveals details from individual forces from yesterday's Home Office's letter to PCCs and Chief Constables on reform on police funding arrangements

NEWS: Policing Insight exclusively reveals extracts from yesterday's Home Office's letter to PCCs and Chief Constables on reform on police funding arrangements

OPINION: By Rt Hon Mike Penning MP, Minister of State for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice and Victims, Home Office and Ministry of Justice

ANALYSIS: Stuart Hyde QPM examines crime recording rules and identifies changes that could make the investigation of cybercrime and fraud much more effective

NEWS BRIEF: The Home Affairs Committee is to conduct an inquiry into ‘Reform of the Police Funding Formula’. This inquiry comes shortly after the Public Accounts Committee published a report into the "Financial sustainability of police forces in England and Wales"

OPINION: Jim Mallen, Chair of Bedfordshire Police Federation, sets out why police volunteers "will not provide better policing; this will provide cheaper policing".

OPINION: Niven Rennie, President of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents, reflects on last week's Police Superintendents' conference south of the border

OPINION: Dr Rick Muir, Director of the Police Foundation, considers whether the designation of police powers to civilians can help the police adapt to changing demand