Leadership & Culture
What is Police Reform and will it make a difference?
What is police reform? Explore England and Wales’s 2026 proposals, recent reports, reform leaders and lessons from Scotland and Andy Wooff’s research.
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Misconduct and standards
Professional standards, the handling of misconduct, and what the warning signs reveal.
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Evidence & Practice
Police complaints, the IOPC and local forces: who does what?
What is the IOPC? How do you complain about the police or check your local force? A plain-English guide to policing bodies and their latest verified reports.
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Evidence & Practice
Before Serious Misconduct: Can Police Data Identify Harmful Team Cultures Earlier?
Can complaints, use of force, driving standards and misconduct data identify harmful police team cultures earlier? Research on peer effects and Operation Hotton suggests forces should test the possibility.
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Evidence & Practice
Self-Selection Policing: What Minor Offences Can Reveal
What self-selection policing can reveal through minor offences, what the driving research establishes, and the limits on searches and misconduct prediction.
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Evidence & Practice
Procedural Justice: The Police Leader’s Guide to Fair Encounters
What procedural justice means for UK policing: four principles, evidence on trust and crime, and practical ways to improve stop and search and supervision.
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Technology & Innovation
Police confidence and media coverage: what 25 years of headlines can—and cannot—tell us
Compare Guardian police headlines with public confidence data, inspect the method and understand why the two trends cannot establish causation.
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Influential People
Jason Roach and the Case for Self-Selection Policing
Professor Jason Roach helped develop self-selection policing: using selected minor offences as behaviour-based opportunities to identify wider serious offending. His wider contribution is practical psychology built for police use.
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Leadership & Culture
Henry Nowak Murder: What the Court Found and What the IOPC Is Investigating
Henry Nowak’s murder: the sentencing findings, the IOPC investigation into two officers and the questions about urgent care, police decisions and accountability.
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Evidence & Practice
Neurodiversity in Policing: The Retention Problem Leaders Can Fix
UK police employees with autism and ADHD report both strengths and barriers at work, with workplace adjustments frequently requested but not made. The evidence supports better management and adjustments — not stereotypes about what neurodivergent officers can or cannot do.
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