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.

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.

POLICE forces have been handed around £1.5 million of cash taken from criminals despite a high-profile drive to use it for community causes.

Police Federation vicechairman Simon Reed has accused the Crown Prosecution Service of allowing serious criminals to avoid justice so that they can save money and meet government targets.

Louise Casey, the Anti-social Behaviour ‘Tsar’, has made a very important point this Boxing Day. Police, and the corrupt law and justice system, put criminals first. They don’t really care about the victims. What kind of society have we become when victims of crime are relegated because of an obsession with the criminals perceived rights. We would have

At least 20,000 people have been wrongly labelled as criminals or accused of more serious offences because of blunders by the police and the Criminal Records Bureau.

Up to one in four incidents ignored by police should have been recorded as a crime, the police watchdog warned today.

The murder of a police officer while on patrol in Northern Ireland has been condemned as the work of "evil criminals" intent on destroying the peace.