Avon and Somerset Constabulary has made a mandatory referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) following the death of a teenage girl on the M5 on Monday night (November 11). The ...

The officer, a constable aged in his 30s, was arrested on Tuesday (November 12) at a property in Gloucester on suspicion of providing support for a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 12 of ...

The Domestic Abuse Joint Justice Plan (DA JJP) commits the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to “work together more cohesively” to build strong cases from the ...

The Home Affairs Committee has launched an inquiry into the policing of incidents of violent disorder in the UK during the summer of 2024. Committee chair Dame Karen Bradley said: “Disorder like we ...

Prevention is preferable to detection; what community policing provides is a positive contribution at both ends of the ...

The October 7 attacks are an example of a trigger event that usually precedes a spike in hate crime. These events can ...

During the evening of November 5, officers in Edinburgh responded to various incidents of youth disorder in Niddrie, ...

ITV’s Tonight programme aired an investigative report on Thursday evening (November 7) exploring the scope and impact of spiking in the UK, supported by exclusive data from the charity Stamp Out ...

So called ‘honour-based’ abuse (HBA) offences in England and Wales have fallen for the first time in four years. However, the Home Office cautioned that the reduction could be a result of changes made ...

Almost 600 police officers in England and Wales were dismissed and placed on the barred list in the 12 months to March 2024, new figures show. According to the latest College of Policing barred list ...

Police Scotland welcomed 253 new officers as they took their oath of office at ceremonies across the country on Thursday (November 7). The new recruits mean officer numbers were 16,603 as of November ...

The Initial Foundation Programme (IFP) for recruits is an intensive 18-week residential course, covering a huge range of policing skills and essential firearms skills. Since the courses were ...