Foreign police chiefs will be able to run British forces for the first time under radical reforms set to be unveiled next week. Home Secretary Ther...
New Scotland Yard's headquarters are being sold off to save money, the Metropolitan Police has announced, as the force faces making cuts of more than ...
The other side of the police has been exposed by the shocking revelations about Hillsborough, both in failing to prevent a disaster waiting to happen and later dishonestly concealing the truth.
Police officers have gathered outside Andrew Mitchell's constituency office wearing T-shirts with the slogan "PC Pleb and Proud". Accusing the Pri...
Criminal damage, thefts from cars and burglaries were not investigated by police after cuts to a force's budget, it has been reported. Devon and Co...
The number of police officers in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level in nine years, figures showed on Thursday. There were 134,101 off...
Nearly 6,000 fewer police will be on the streets in the three years' time as the government's budget cuts take hold, it has been revealed. Nationwi...
The Home Secretary was heckled on Wednesday as she told rank-and-file officers that changes to their pay and conditions were reforms which hard-workin...
Labour has accused the coalition of overseeing a "shocking" 5,000 cut in police dealing with 999 emergencies. Figures released under freedom of inf...
The privatisation of the police service will have a detrimental effect on public safety and the level of service they expect and deserve from us. I don't say this lightly, I am genuinely outraged by what is happening to the greatest police service in the world.
Catastrophic cuts in police numbers mean that rank and file officiers are unable to do their jobs effectively, the Police Federation has said. The ...
Senior police chief Tony Melville, from Gloucestershire Police, has spoken out to warn that cuts to his force's budget will put them on a "metaphorica...
More than seven times as many police officers were made redundant in 2010-11 as cuts to police budgets started to impact on staff numbers, according t...
Bernard Hogan-Howe, the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has said he is "open minded" about transferring responsibility for counter-terror...
The Government is "playing fast and loose" with the public's safety by cutting police numbers, the chairman of the federation which rep...
A third of Britons believe the government's response to the riots has been too hasty, a new poll by YouGov has find. And the vast majority - 70% - ...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- London Mayor Boris Johnson says that he is "obsessed" with getting more police officers on the street in the wake of the riots t...
A week after the turmoil in London and other UK cities, attention is turning away from the immediate issues of dealing with criminal behaviour towards the action needed to address the wider causes.
The prime minister has signalled a major shift in emphasis on crime policy in the wake of the riots which have affected parts of England in the past w...
Negotiations over police cuts between officials and police staff ended in failure on Tuesday, with officers claiming that government reforms were bein...
The 34,000 police jobs that will be lost due to police budget cuts by 2015 will set policing "by up to a decade", says a senior former police constabl...
More than 34,000 police jobs will be lost due to police budget cuts, inspectors have said in a report. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary s...
PRESS ASSOCIATION --- Thousands of police officers are to call on the Government to come to the negotiating table as they join a day of action against...
On July 13 the Police Federation of England and Wales, the organisation which represents rank and file officers, will be holding a meeting at Westmins...
