Which crimes no longer deserve prison?
More people are being jailed than the justice system can manage. There are only 557 places left across 120 prisons…
Why Met firearms officers want to hand in their guns
The decision by up to 300 Metropolitan police firearms officers to withdraw from armed duties is a serious and worrying…
The Met police is caught in a dangerous spiral
Twelve months after Sir Mark Rowley embarked on a mission to re-boot the Metropolitan Police following a wave of scandals,…
Do we need a nationwide DNA database for crime?
When a man has spent 17 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit, there are many urgent…
The police are struggling to operate in a smartphone world
These are busy times for the police watchdog. It’s just started an investigation into serious allegations of misconduct against Devon…
The BBC has serious questions to answer over Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards is in hospital. That shocking news, in a statement from his wife, Vicky Flind, delivered an icy blast…
The police will be pleased with their coronation performance
‘I am immensely proud of the exceptional work of our officers who prevented criminal disruption, damage and danger destroying such…
We can’t rely on the police to clean up mobile phone theft
A call from my younger son’s secondary school was not what I was expecting at 11.30 a.m., but as soon…
Charles Bronson and the problem with parole hearings
The letter delivered last week to Mr Charles Salvador, of HMP Woodhill, from the parole board did not bring him…
How did theft become effectively decriminalised in Britain?
Haven’t we all had that panicky, sinking feeling at one time or another? A realisation that we’ve been the victim…
‘They call him the tunneller’: meet the new head of the Met police
Dressed in full uniform and clutching a clipboard, Mark Rowley walked out of the Royal Courts of Justice in London,…
