Below are the website links to crime maps across all 43 police forces in England and Wales. Click on the link to find the statistics for your area.

Shadow Minister for Police Vernon Coaker has criticised planned cuts to police forces in England and Wales.

Police forces in England and Wales are inefficient, expensive and in need of dramatic change, think tank Reform says.

Cuts of more than 12% to police budgets could harm the ability of forces in England and Wales to combat crime, according to the police watchdog.

Almost every police force in England and Wales has shut its doors to new recruits, research published by Labour's Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls reveals today. A survey of police force recruitment websites and hotlines shows that 39 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales have frozen recruitment of officers completely. Two confirm that they are not currently accepting applications and on...

Police forces in England and Wales are to be told to cut their annual budgets by more than £500m over the next five years, bringing an abrupt end to a decade of heavy government spending on law enforcement

Back in 2006 Peter Troy and I ran a blog about local campaigns against government plans to merge police forces. We subtitled it "For greater democratic control of the police". The proposal's risen from its sleep, this time at the behest of ACPO. The leader of chief constables in England and Wales has called for the amalgamation of forces to save money. Sir Hugh Orde says amalgamation would re...

The Home Office today provoked a major row when it blamed inaccurate police record-keeping for an apparent 22% rise in the number of the most serious violent crimes in England and Wales. Senior Home Office officials said at least 13 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales - possibly as many as 17 - had been undercounting crimes that should have been classified as GBH with intent as a less ser...

Police forces in England and Wales face cuts in central funding in the next two years of 4% then 5%, the government announces.

Will the Metropolitan Police and other Police forces curtail their "Surveillance State" abuses of photographs and videos of innocent people, following this legal Judgment in the England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) ? Wood v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009] EWCA Civ 414 (21 May 2009) For an expert legal view, see the Panopticon blog Privacy and the Police - Important C...