Nick Herbert, the Coalition's Conservative police minister, condemns Labour's wasteful legacy and insists forces will be able to catch more criminals with smaller budgets and fewer officers. He also announces new rules will be introduced to cut costs, by controlling the way forces spend money on vehicles, computers and other equipment.

"The fact that compensation would often not be forthcoming either because of inability to catch the offender or inability to pay if caught would motivate us to take out "crime insurance", which in turn would motivate the insurance company to catch such criminals as it profitably could. Criminals would have plenty to fear from these highly motivated companies, who of course would acquire from their...

Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne calls for urgent reform of police working practices to help catch more criminals.

The Metropolitan police commissioner of the 1980s, Sir Robert Mark, once said that the test of an efficient police force is whether it can catch more criminals than it employs. Corrupt police officers who move through the ranks to the most senior level are nothing new, they have been in place since Robert Peel created London's Metropolitan Police Force in 1829. The upper echelons of the Met h...

Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary has said.

Police officers would "rather stay in the warm police station" than snare criminals, the Justice Secretary claims.

Here is what London's Metropolitan Police say about stop and search: Being stopped does not mean you are under arrest or have done something wrong. In some cases, people are stopped as part of a wide-ranging effort to catch criminals in a targeted public place. A police officer, or a community support officer must have a good reason for stopping or searching you and they are required to tell ...

The image on the right is from Facebook (friend suggestion redacted) which shows an advert for the Policing PLedge which links here. The Policing Pledge can also be known as the statement of the bleeding obvious about what we expect the Police to do anyway. The question is why waste public funds on advertising on Facebook in order to tell us that the Police now pledge to catch criminals? What were...

Tens of thousands of foreign criminals could be slipping through the net because police only check the backgrounds of one in seven, an official review revealed yesterday.

Senior police officers have dismissed a report blaming officers' tactics for the summer riots saying it amounted to criminals making excuses for their actions.