Hundreds of soldiers from 3rd battalion The Parachute Regiment spent last week learning how to contain and arrest "rioters" in a series of exercises mirroring last summers violence. Defence sources have confirmed that if violence were to return to British cities, especially during the Olympic Games, the Paras would be "ideally placed" to provide "short-term" support to police forces around the UK....

As a former head of the US Secret Service, Ronald Noble knows only too well how terrorism, drug-smuggling and people-trafficking cross borders which individual police forces cannot. He is now Secretary General of Interpol, and a specialist team from the organisation he has spent 11 years rebuilding will next summer help the Metropolitan Police combat those crimes and others, during the huge securi...

A freedom of information request by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation in Britain revealed that there were at least 2,823 honor attacks in the UK in 2010. I say 'at least' because out of 52 police forces queried, only 39 responded. The rest, roughly 25% were unable or unwilling to provide the data. The BBC article linked here defines 'honour attacks' as &#...

A new royal college of policing is to be established as part of wide-ranging government plans to improve the performance and public reputation of police forces, it has emerged.

Police forces in the North East and Cumbria will shed more than 1,200 officers yet London Mayor Boris Johnson is promising to protect police numbers in the capital.

Yesterday, an Act of Parliament came into being that will completely overhaul the principles and practice of policing in England and Wales in just over a year’s time. November 2012 will see the election of 42 new Policing and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), directly elected by the residents of each police area outside London, who will hire and fire chief constables, decide the policing prioritie...

Local Authorities who lost money with the Icelandic banks include Kent county council with £50m; Nottingham city council, £42m; Norfolk county council, £32.5m; Dorset county council, and Hertfordshire county council, both £28m. Fifteen police forces and numerous charities also lost their investments in Iceland.

Police forces in England and Wales have wasted nearly £600m in the last four years because one in every 20 police officer jobs could be done by cheaper civilian staff, says new research

The Times August 27th 2011 Mark Atherton Police ‘help bailiffs to seize cars over unpaid parking fines’ (Rock music fans at the Reading Festival yesterday. Police forces earned almost £8 million in the past year providing security for events such as music festivals) The police have been accused of acting beyond their authority by helping bailiffs to collect disputed parking fines...

Applications to be the next commissioner of the Metropolitan Police closed at noon today. But thanks to the Home Office and the police, the best candidate for the job — Bill Bratton — hasn’t been allowed to even apply. The energy which was put into barring him shows just how determined the police and the Home Office are to prevent any outside talent from being brought into the po...