The roots are well known: one of eight children of Pakistani immigrants, he grew up in a cramped house on a South London housing estate, attended a tough local […]
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As Sadiq Khan approaches the halfway point in his first term, Demetrios Matheou snatched a few minutes in the whirlwind schedule of the London Mayor
“It all goes back to the Soham case,” she says. Ian Huntley, who brutally murdered two young school girls, was able to get a job at a school because the information police forces held on him […]
You call 999, you’re put through to someone, the police arrive… But of course, it’s never as simple as that
Since the Conservatives came to power, both in coalition and after, the police service has been devastated by cuts
Since the Conservatives came to power, both in coalition and after, the police service has been devastated by cuts
UNISON releases latest survey showing effect of policing cuts on community support officers and neighbourhood policing in England and Wales
Responding to official figures released today (Thursday) that show serious crime is still rising, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The reduction in resources for police forces was bound to have consequences for crime, as these new figures show. “Government cuts to budgets have meant almost a third fewer police community support officers and a […]
Around 60 to 70 of them will lose their job. “Prosecution caseworkers are the people who build files for court,” he says. “A policeman brings an offender in on an […]
Serious crime is on the rise again after years of steady falls in offending, and UNISON believes government cutbacks in policing are to blame. Keen to encourage people to vote in the police and crime commissioner elections on 5 May, UNISON is launching a campaign to provide the public with the facts about police cuts. […]
Experience after experience has shown that privatisation is a false economy
Essex police force unveils plan to axe PCSOs and close stations in the county