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Police cuts 'perfectly achievable'
The Centre's Director, Richard Garside, has appeared on Sunday Politics South West in a feature about cuts to Devon and Cornwall police.
He said:
'Against the
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Police 'not a civil debt recovery agency'
The Chief Constable of Surrey Police, Lynne Owens, yesterday told the House of Commons Home Affairs Commitee that the police were 'not a civil debt recovery agency'.
She made the remarks in exchanges over whether the police should routinely pursue motorists who drive off without paying...
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Police could become less visible on the streets
Police officers could become less visible on the streets because police forces aren't managing their budgets properly in the face of funding cuts, warns a report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, covered in ...
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Is stop and search really the answer to knife crime?
‘This is not an issue we will ever arrest or enforce our way out of.’ Commenting on young...
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Met police criticised for 'gang call-in' letter
The Met police attracted criticism after sending a letter to 24 young people in Brent - all believed to be black - demanding they attend a community meeting or be treated like law-breakers,...
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Slash police budgets
The case of the 14-year-old boy criminalised for sending a naked selfie...
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Policing in Scotland has become a political football
It’s all change at the top in Police Scotland, with Chief Constable Sir Stephen House...
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Do we really need the police?
The prospect of further big cuts to police budgets and officer numbers is beginning to force a discussion about what the role of the police should be and what services they should provide. This is...
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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...