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Slash police budgets to reverse mission creep
Slashing police budgets provides us with the opportunity to rebalance public policy, writes our Director Richard Garside in an article appearing in The Guardian today...
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Police cuts an opportunity, our director writes
The ongoing decline in police numbers presents us with an opportunity to rebalance public policy, our director Richard Garside writes in a letter published in today's Guardian...
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More social workers, fewer police?
Sir Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has called for 'a new approach' in responding to vulnerable and missing teenagers. He emphasised the need to protect children, but questioned whether the police are best placed to do this, reports...
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Police Scotland reform was long overdue
The establishment of Police Scotland was a virtue born from necessity. The virtue was that at long last specialist services could be provided and similar standards delivered across the country. A...
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Sharp rise in police Taser use
Police use of Tasers in England and Wales has risen by half over the last five years according to Home Office figures released yesterday. In total...
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Police too often playing mental health worker role
A review of mental health crisis care in England and Wales by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that the police are regularly the first point of contact for those in mental distress....
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The police deter crime like nurses deter illness
Our director, Richard Garside, was on The One Show on BBC One yesterday talking about the challenges faced by cuts in police budgets.
'There is no more deterrent from the police just being around,' Richard said, 'than if you have more nurses and people will be deterred from being ill'....
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Police say more cuts will lead to paramilitary-style policing
The chair of the Police Federation, Steve White, has warned Theresa May that further cuts to police budgets will lead to a paramilitary style of policing, reports...
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Much 'allo 'allo 'allo about nothing
Our Director, Richard Garside, appeared on the BBC current affairs programme Victoria Derbyshire to discuss falling police numbers. This was in the wake of...
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Falling police numbers: The longer view
The claim by the Chair of the Police Federation, Steve White, that policing in England and Wales was 'on its knees' and could not face further cuts are overstated, I argued in...
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The non-crisis of policing in England and Wales
Last year the Home Secretary Theresa May went to the Police Federation annual conference and gave it a good kicking.
The Police Federation,...
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Our director co-signs letter on the strip-searching of children
Our Director Richard Garside is among the signatories to a letter published today in The Guardian calling for the strip-searching of children in police stations...