The special Home Office grant of £275,000 to Lincolnshire Police to buy 300 Taser stun guns is great news for the county. As a member of the local Police Authority, I gave evidence to the Home Office when Lincolnshire Police was one of five police forces to pilot Tasers five years ago. I'm a big supporter of Tasers, despite the controvery that surrounds them. Our police officers put the...

The row over a police raid on the House of Commons threatened to escalate last night when it emerged that police entered the parliamentary offices of a second Tory MP. Daniel Kawczynski said he was "appalled" that a police officer had visited his office as part of an investigation into a series of letters containing white powder sent to the Commons. The Metropolitan police confirmed that an office...

Home Office data published today shows police numbers are falling sharply in London. According to the Home Office there were 31,657 Metropolitan police officers in September 2011, a fall of 1,243 from September 2010. This represents a fall 3.8% over the year. The decline in police numbers under Boris Johnson is accelerating, with 784 fewer police in the latest 6 months alone. And, in separate, sli...

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...

A senior police officer has been appointed by Acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson to review the handling of the police inquiry into Home Office leaks, Scotland Yard announced today.

Footage released by the Conservative party showing police officers in the office of the shadow immigration minister

A Tory MP has alleged police entered his office in Westminster without a warrant to search for a letter from a constituent.

Which would be the worst outcome of a police investigation: prosecution for misconduct in a public office or being shopped to Mrs Blanko?

On Thursday the Speaker accused Daniel Kawczynski MP of "rushing" to judgment on the appearance of police officers at his Commons office. Mr Kawczynski is persisting in his concern that the police behaviour was inappropriate and has written to the...

Since my last posting on this, I have read up on some further details. Namely that police raided Damien Green's Commons office. Now I am not so concerned on this point as to whether Green is guilty or not, but I am concerned that an MP's office has been searched. Members of Parliament have a no of rights and priviliges and one of them is that their job protects them from the law in some ...