Governance

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Lancashire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Leicestershire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Lincolnshire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Merseyside, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Norfolk, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Northamptonshire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Northumbria, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: The election for the first York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Mayor will take place on Thursday 2 May 2024. The powers of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner to oversee the Police and Fire services in York and North Yorkshire will be transferred to the new Mayor once elected, along with the Commissioner’s role as the Fire Authority.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Nottinghamshire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: The election for the South Yorkshire Combined Authority Mayor will take place on Thursday 2 May 2024. The powers of the Police and Crime Commissioner to oversee the Police services in South Yorkshire will be transferred to the new Mayor once elected.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Staffordshire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Suffolk, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Surrey, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Sussex, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Thames Valley, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in Warwickshire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2021 in West Mercia, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2024 in West Midlands, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: The office of West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner was abolished on the date of the 2021 elections and the role was taken up by the office of the to be elected mayor of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

POLICE FORCE FOCUS: Candidate details for the PCC Elections 2021 in Wiltshire, along with details of previous PCC election outcomes.

OPINION: The UK’s complicated policing landscape of 45 territorial forces alongside specialist services and other national law enforcement agencies has often been regarded as one of the challenges to improving police efficiency and effectiveness; resilience expert Robert Hall, former Head of Analysis at the National Criminal Intelligence Service, argues that now is the time to revisit the potential of a centralised UK police force.

FEATURE: As we welcome in 2024, Policing Insight Editor Keith Potter looks back over what the past 12 months have meant for policing in the UK and internationally, how those issues have been covered by Policing Insight, and the continuing challenges and opportunities for the year ahead.

ANALYSIS: This year saw Cleveland Police emerge from the HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services ‘Engaged’ status with some impressive performance figures; Tom Gash, Managing Director of strategy and decision-making consultancy Leapwise Advisory – which worked with the force on its improvement journey – sets out some of the key steps forces need to take to achieve a successful turnaround.

FEATURE: A new report by a cross-party committee of UK MPs has described the need for policing to “repair its culture” in the face of increasingly complex demands and failures that have damaged confidence in the service as a “turning point for the police”, amid warnings that “marginal changes” will not be enough to improve services and rebuild public trust, as Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons reports.