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The Protect and Prevent ends of policing terrorism — including Martyn's Law and what it asks of venues, forces and leaders.
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Surveys tell us whether public confidence in the police rose or fell. This dataset shows the language that ran alongside it — a quarter-century of UK news headlines about the police, reduced to words, tone and themes. The two curves turn out not to be the same shape.
Alex Murray spent a career investigating murders and running counter-terrorism operations, then built the institution that asked British policing a harder question: does any of this actually work? A profile of the founder of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing.
A mother's six-year campaign turned the Manchester Arena attack into the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 — Martyn's Law. A plain-English guide to what the law says, where it is on the road to enforcement, what it means for businesses, police officers and police leaders — and a practical, provisional checklist for getting a venue ready.
A former Home Office crime analyst who became one of British policing's most practically useful academics: Professor Jason Roach gave the service self-selection policing, a psychologist's eye for offender decision-making, and a career-long insistence that research should help the officer on shift. A profile.
A CIA-seeded American data firm has moved from the edge of UK public-sector IT to a structural position inside defence, health and, increasingly, policing. What has actually been bought, what the software does, and why it is contested.
