The judgment follows an appeal by the MPS on an important point of law after losing a High Court judicial review in February 2025. The judicial review challenged Operation Assure , the MPS’s then ...

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced the largest reforms to policing since the service was founded two centuries ago. A White Paper titled ‘From local to national: a new model for policing’, ...

Ms Mahmood said the new National Police Service – dubbed “the British FBI” – will attract world-class talent and use state-of ...

Craig Naylor, His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, said: “Policing must constantly adapt to new forms of crime, ...

Police officers in England and Wales will be required to hold and renew a licence to work throughout their career or risk being removed from the profession. The Home Office says this is so officers ...

It means forces are on track to boost neighbourhood policing with 3,000 new officers this year. This growth in neighbourhood ...

Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long has announced the appointment of Acting Chief Superintendent Norman Haslett as a ...

The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is calling for the “silent crisis” of police suicide to end as new data ...

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has confirmed it will begin an investigation into the role West Midlands ...

Mr Ash-Edwards said: “Hertfordshire is not an administrative inconvenience on a Whitehall map. It is an ambitious county that is one of the safest places to live in the UK because it has a county ...

The chief constable of West Midlands Police has announced his retirement amid widespread criticism of his decision to ban ...

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has said that newly published performance figures from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) expose widespread and worsening failures ...