The interim guidance has been developed by the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing and encourages forces to disclose a suspect’s ethnicity and nationality when there is ...

The College of Policing has launched new guidance designed to support first responders and investigators to better identify and respond to cases of ‘honour-based abuse’ (HBA). It says this will ...

The latest Annual Report and Threat Assessment for the Organised Crime Task Force (OCTF) shows 61 OCGs were being investigated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), with three-quarters of ...

Known as Operation Topaz, the partnership between the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the Department for Transport (DfT), supported by the Home Office, explores greater collaboration for ...

The interim chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police has agreed to stay on in the job for another 16 months. Chief ...

South Yorkshire Police has asked the National Crime Agency (NCA) to take on the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) directed investigation into former officers accused of non-recent sexual ...

Cheshire Constabulary is set to become the first police force in the UK to equip officers with DNA Tagging Spray at all ...

After seeing a stark rise in knife-enabled robbery in the year to June 2024, driven by a 14 per cent increase across seven police forces, the Home Secretary set up a dedicated police taskforce last ...

Warwickshire’s police and crime commissioner (PCC) Philip Seccombe has written to the Home Secretary to call for “urgent ...

Stuart Cundy has been appointed as the new deputy chief constable of the British Transport Police (BTP). He most recently served as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service ...

“The MPS has a clear governance structure for providing safe and respectful services. Custody personnel were always respectful towards detainees, and they showed compassion during their interactions ...