People want police and crime commissioners in England and Wales to prioritise tackling antisocial behaviour, according to a Local Government Association survey.
The proposed single police and fire service bodies for Scotland should be trialled in shadow form before taking on their responsibilities, CIPFA has said.
Measures to reduce the amount of time and money the police spend on paperwork for prosecutions have been hampered by their 'flawed' introduction, according to the National Audit Office.
The coalition talk might be all about small government. But in the real world, the unprecedented shocks to the UK - banking crises, terrorist attacks, riots - show we rely on the state more than ever
Inefficiencies in Scotland’s criminal justice system cause delays for victims and witnesses and cost at least £40m, according to an Audit Scotland report published today.
A former government drugs czar is calling for a new focus on treating alcohol addiction in prisons after finding that as many as one in six prisoners in the UK may be alcoholics.
A Scottish policing ‘summit’ today heard a string of speakers accuse ministers of railroading Scotland towards a single national police force without having made a convincing case that it can deliver...
Councils in England fear that the government schemes to cover the cost of the damage caused by the riots might leave them out of pocket, leading to uncertainty over what support they can offer those...
MPs have called for the National Offender Management Service to be reviewed after finding that it had led an 'incoherent' tendering process for some probation services.
