At the conclusion of a four-week misconduct hearing, a police disciplinary panel found that the decision to perform a strip search of the child – known as Child Q – was “disproportionate, ...

Interim guidance around searching of transgender persons and searching by transgender officers and staff has been issued by Police Scotland. The guidance has been developed in response to the UK ...

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary and Thames Valley Police joint Operations Unit has integrated drone as first responder (DFR) technology to a police control room in the first trial of its ...

Recorded crime in Scotland has more than halved since 1991, with serious assault and attempted murder falling to record lows, ...

A Hampshire officer who suffered trauma in her policing role and came close to suicide has bravely spoken about why she supports the STEP – Suicide Trauma Education Prevention – campaign.

More than 117,000 people – predominantly women and children – experience domestic abuse in Merseyside each year, according to ...

More than half of women do not feel safe on the streets of London, while nearly a half have been followed and more than a quarter have been physically or sexually assaulted, according to an exclusive ...

The majority of police interventions in the lives of citizens is predominantly post-incident: from the violence of assault, ...

Leading policy adviser and consultant Blair Gibbs has been appointed as the new director of The Police Foundation. He will ...

The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has announced that Chris Brown will take over as its next chief executive in October. The ...

An investigation West Mercia Police’s contact with a nine-year-old boy before his death has found no indication that any officers had breached professional standards. However, it concluded that the ...

A new way for Londoners to receive updates directly from local officers is being rolled out as part of the Metropolitan Police Service’s (MPS) focus on neighbourhood policing.