Labour's plan to give the public a greater say in how police forces are run would see local control of policing handed to the Tories in vast swaths of the country, the Electoral Reform Society (ERS) has claimed. The assertion is likely to alarm Home Office ministers as they attempt to push forward their proposal to make the majority of members of police authorities directly electable. An ERS ...

POLICE have urged politicians to vote down any Scottish budget that leads to a cut in front-line officers and a rise in crime.

Even though he has one of the best front pages to a political website I’ve seen in ages, Eric Pickles cannot escape a little scrutiny from the “Tories plan purge of town hall ‘fat cats’” story by Sam Coates in today’s times. According to the story, the Tories will clamp down on the pay of

Throughout Labour conference, the Tories will be trying to promote the message that the conference shows Labour is on the way out. Expect the Tories to pump out lots of statistics about how the number of delegates attending is down, how there are fewer commercial stands, lobbyists and the like. The other thing the Tories plan to do is constantly contrast it to John Major’s last conference, a...

Only one in eight police recruits has a front line role, according to figures that show most vacancies are filled by civilian workers.

Public safety is at risk because more than four in five police authorities are not good enough to best protect front line policing, a watchdog warned today.

THE Tories attempted to play up their role in boosting the number of police officers in Scotland yesterday as shadow minister Francis Maude promoted his party's law and or

As the Tories prepare to head to the seaside, Tim Montgomerie has published a ten point plan to get the Tory campaign back on track. The plan is already causing much discussion in Tory circles. His main points are that the Tories need to sharpen their economic message, use William Hague more, sort out the structure of the campaign, warn of the dangers of a hung parliament and ram home to voters ju...

Video footage has emerged of a police line obstructing the ambulance as it rushed to the scene. Protesters are clearly heard shouting "Let them through" as the police line blockading the street remains motionless even as the ambulance sits right in front of it with its sirens blaring. It looks like the police reluctantly move in the end (although that's not entirely clear from the video, but I'm h...

The Mail on Sunday's front page story concerns a "Harrod's Executive" who is being questioned about an alleged sexual assault on a 15 year old schoolgirl. A complaint has been made to Surrey Police, but as the alleged offence was committed in West London, the Met have taken over the inquiry.I ask myself why this is a front page story.Is it...a) The obvious: Paul Dacre's desire to keep bad stories ...