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The bodies and processes that hold policing to account.
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British policing has promised to electrify a fleet that is four-fifths diesel — but the pursuit, the armed response car and the 3am rural shift are governed by physics a procurement target cannot waive. A guide for the people signing the forms, with two interactive tools: match the car to the role, fund the charging first, and do not let a demonstration write fleet policy.
Artificial intelligence is reaching policing faster than most leaders were ever trained to understand it. A plain-English guide that builds from the basics — what the words mean, what AI can and can't do, how it uses your data, the risks to own, and where it genuinely helps.
In June 2026 the government launched PoliceAI, a national centre to develop and scale artificial intelligence across the 43 forces of England and Wales. This is a working guide for leaders — what the institution is, the platforms underneath it, and the questions worth asking before any of it reaches your force. Built to grow as the picture does.
In 1829 a Home Secretary persuaded a suspicious country to accept the first modern police force — unarmed, in plain blue, and answerable to the public rather than the Crown. A profile of Sir Robert Peel and the idea that still underwrites British policing: that the police are only ever the public in uniform.
On 1 June 2026, a judge sentenced Vickrum Digwa to life for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. Working from the judge's own sentencing remarks rather than the headlines, this is a careful, evidence-based account of what the court actually found — including what it found about the police response.
