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Safeguarding and missing persons

Protecting people at risk, including the missing.

Why Medium Risk Is the Safe Option — and How Do We Learn to Accurately Grade Risk With Confidence?

On a domestic abuse call, medium is the grade we reach for when we are not sure — it feels safer than standard, which triggers nothing, and less exposed than high. But a grade chosen to protect the officer protects no victim. Understanding what standard, medium and high actually mean is how we learn to grade with confidence, and act on the medium-risk victims we are currently missing.

17 June 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

ASB Civil powers: A Frontline Guide to Warnings, Notices and Orders

Community protection warnings and notices, civil injunctions, criminal behaviour orders and closure orders are some of the most powerful — and most under-used — tools an officer has. With the Sentencing Act 2026 raising the bar for remand, they matter more than ever. A working guide to what each one does, the legal test, the case law on getting the terms right, real examples, and templates you can adapt.

17 June 2026 Read article →

Technology & Innovation

Does Domestic Abuse Spike When England Play? Reading the Evidence Honestly

You have seen the headline: domestic abuse rises 38% when England lose. It comes from a real study — but the real story is more careful, more troubling, and more useful than the number that travels. A More or Less Policing look at what the evidence actually supports.

13 June 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

“Do you understand?” - Does this question serve a purpose?

"Do you understand?" — asked after the caution, at booking-in, before a plea — sounds like fairness but often works as a ritual rather than a test: it invites a yes that keeps the system moving while quietly failing the people who most need clarity. Why we should stop asking and start explaining.

7 January 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

The Officers We’re Losing: Why British Policing Must Rethink Cognitive Diversity

British policing invests heavily in recruitment and training, then systematically loses officers whose cognitive profiles — ADHD, autism, dyslexia — do not fit institutional assumptions about what "good" looks like. Why cognitive diversity is a strategic capability senior leaders cannot afford to manage out.

6 May 2025 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

Boosting Public Confidence Through Neighbourhood Policing

Delivered well, neighbourhood policing produces “quick, large and sustained” gains in public confidence. The evidence behind that claim, weighed.

18 February 2025 Read article →