Police forces

OPINION: Colin Sutton, policing commentator and former senior police officer, criticises the planned recruitment process for a new Suffolk Chief Constable

OPINION: PCC Katy Bourne provides the Sussex perspective on the Chancellor's Comprehensive Spending Review.

NEWS: Details of the first twenty four OPCCs to receive CoPaCC's 2015 Transparency Quality Mark

OPINION: DCC Dave Thompson of West Midlands Police pays tribute to the security services and police in keeping us safe, and considers the future challenge in a time of austerity

EXCLUSIVE: Five PCCs and the Mayor of London are adversely impacting on the employment prospects of their residents by not addressing poor performance of their police force's Police Disclosure Units.

OPINION: Kent PCC Ann Barnes gives her views on the Home Office's police funding formula 'consultation'

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

OPINION: PC Rory Geoghegan, a frontline Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police, considers the positive effect of community policing

NEWS: Lord Bew, Chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, addresses an audience gathered to mark the launch of CoPaCC's "OPCC Transparency" Quality Mark

OPINION: Lee Simpson and Max Worth of Deloitte report on a five-force event to produce "mind-blowing apps"

OPINION: Dorset PCC Martyn Underhill provides his perspective on HMIC's Police Effectiveness, Efficiency and Legitimacy (PEEL) Report, published last week

NEWS: Policing Insight launches our directory of police force and governing body information

OPINION: Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt responds to the RCA's independent report, "Safer together: Policing a global city in 2020"

ANALYSIS: Roy Wilsher, Hertfordshire's Chief Fire Officer and Chief Exec of Hertfordshire OPCC, examines some of the challenges ahead of further fire and police collaboration

OPINION: ACC Ian Wiggett of Greater Manchester Police argues that policing needs to adopt a 'common voice' on its overall capacity and capability to manage risk

NEWS BRIEF: Five forces rated outstanding, 29 as good, 8 as requiring improvement and one - Humberside - as inadequate.

NEWS BRIEF: Temporary Chief Constable Gareth Morgan will continue to lead the Constabulary while a recruitment process takes place.

ANALYSIS: MayorWatch's Martin Hoscik examines views on the likely impact on the Met Police of the RSA's recent independent report

ANALYSIS: Anthony Painter, the RSA's Director of Policy and Strategy, provides an author's perspective on the RSA's independent review of the Metropolitan Police

ANALYSIS: Steve Finnigan writes an open letter to the people of Lancashire on the subject of police cuts

OPINION: Bedfordshire PCC Olly Martins calls for those concerned about dwindling police strength to lobby their Member of Parliament

OPINION: Lancashire Constabulary's project lead for innovation and collaboration, Rob Flanagan, argues in favour of "disruptive innovation" in policing

ANALYSIS: MayorWatch's Martin Hoscik casts his expert eye over the welcome awaiting London's new Mayor from the Metropolitan Police

OPINION: Kent PCC Ann Barnes takes a look at the Home Office's police funding consultation, which closed this week.