Artificial intelligence is already reshaping policing, and the recent row over the Metropolitan Police’s blocked deal with Palantir shows how far politics is lagging behind operational reality. If we are serious about protecting frontline officers and visible neighbourhood policing, we should embrace carefully regulated AI as a force multiplier that releases cops from analogue bureaucracy […]
It is easy to be cynical. When Tony Blair was Prime Minister, he once sent a memo to his team demanding ‘eye-catching initiatives’ and adding: ‘I should be personally associated with as much of this as possible.’ The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is on manoeuvres. The speculation that Keir Starmer will be replaced as Prime […]
Much to the surprise of foreigners, Britain has never had a national police force, relying instead on 40-odd local forces since the 1960s, mostly covering one or two counties, but some bigger. Mark Rowley, who runs the Met, is unhappy. Earlier this month, he called for all existing forces to be merged into about 12-15 […]
Some issues in public life should be very easy: safeguarding children as an absolute priority is one of them. Avoiding heaping shame on the innocent is another. The longstanding principles of justice in our country ought to make both ideas apparent. And yet, as the Telegraph sets out, in some parts of our country those charged […]
Here’s something of a paradox: to judge by the commentary, Keir Starmer’s response to the recent public disorder has been pretty effective. The riots seemed to have burned themselves out, the courts are making high-profile examples of those involved, and it appears to many that the Prime Minister has passed his first major test in […]
In response to the recent wave of riots, Keir Starmer has promised to deliver a ‘standing army’ of specially-trained public-order police officers. But at a time of stretched public budgets, how does the Prime Minister propose to do this? And if the Government anticipates that unrest will be an ongoing problem (which it seems to, […]
The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland is under increasing pressure to resign, after a High Court judge found that two junior officers were unlawfully disciplined to placate Sinn Fein. It is the latest controversy in a disastrous summer for Simon Byrne and the PSNI. Previously, it emerged that a high profile data […]
If you’ve spent any time browsing Twitter recently, you may have come across the account ‘London and UK Street News’. It’s an aggregator perfectly suited to the social media age, sharing breaking updates on gang warfare, stabbings and robberies well before the newspapers have a chance to report them. Videos such as this footage of some […]
Yesterday, Sara Thornton, the Capo dei Capi of Britain’s police leaders caused quite a stir by suggesting at their annual conference that rather than focus on deserving causes, such as misogyny, scarce resources should be directed towards tackling increasing levels of violence and burglary. The head of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, backed up that […]
One of the most affecting pieces of coverage of the Hillsborough verdict was the simplest. The BBC’s Today programme Radio 4 earlier this week simply ran lengthy clips of the live commentary by Peter Jones from the ground on the day – the 15th April 1989 – when 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives and […]
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