Policing needs more money to ease the pressure on struggling officers, who are increasingly working alone at increased risk, a police association has warned.
Organisers of the Government Counter Fraud Awards are sending their congratulations to the counter fraud teams who have been shortlisted for this year’s awards, with the full list now live.
The government has drafted what it is calling a landmark bill to support victims of domestic abuse, which is costing £66bn every year in England and Wales.
The chair of the home affairs select committee has criticised the police for not significantly increasing the number of convictions for modern slavery offences.
The number of public bodies in England failing to provide value for money is “unacceptably high” and increasing, the public spending watchdog has warned.
A married couple have been sentenced after attempting to defraud companies by selling false advertising space that they claimed supported emergency services.
Between cuts and process inefficiencies, there is a strong case for bringing criminal justice into the digital age. But with the system already at breaking point the jury is out on the odds of...
CIPFA has issued a new statement of professional practice but local action is equally important in the fight against corruption, says the institutes’s Don Peebles.
The police are often the first line of response, but as real-terms cuts continue, how can already ‘badly overstretched’ services possibly offer a response that meets public expectations? Emily Twinch...
Police are picking up the pieces of a “broken” mental health system as well as increasingly being the first public service on the scene when people need help, inspectors warned.