Government

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