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.
Eight prisons could be taken over by private companies in the next year as part of the government's public service reforms, the Ministry of Justice announced yesterday.
Inspectors have called for a national strategy on the use of police cautions and penalty notices after finding up to a third might be used inappropriately.
A prominent think-tank called today for a substantial increase in the number of police forces in Scotland, despite a growing consensus that the present eight forces should be cut to as few as one
The mood music has changed and, since the May 5 elections, the relationship will never be the same again. So, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats locked into a loveless coalition, what does...
The Welsh Local Government Association has urged the new Assembly government to find its ‘own solution’ to Westminster’s proposals to establish police and crime commissioners.
The scheme for paying self-employed prosecuting barristers is too complex and could provide significantly better value for money, inspectors have said.