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Surveillance and privacy

The expanding reach of policing technology and its civil-liberties costs.

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 →

Evidence & Practice

A Police Leader's Guide to AI

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.

15 June 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

PoliceAI: What is it, why do we need it, and who runs it?

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.

14 June 2026 Read article →

Influential People

Sir Robert Peel and the Invention of Policing by Consent

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.

7 June 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

Nitazenes - What This New drug Means For British Policing

Synthetic opioids have landed in the UK. What nitazenes are, why they are more dangerous than the heroin they are displacing, and the strategic, tactical and operational picture for policing.

5 June 2026 Read article →

Leadership & Culture

What Palantir's Advance Means for British Policing — and Should We Trust Them?

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.

5 June 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

When Police Stop Investigating Crime: The Fuel Theft Crisis hurting British Policing

Clear CCTV, a registration plate, precise timestamps — and still “case closed, no suspect identified”. How fuel theft became effectively decriminalised.

17 June 2025 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

Seeing Is No Longer Believing: How Synthetic Evidence Could Convict an Innocent Man

Every image and video in this article is fictional and AI-generated for illustration. John Smith, Margaret Doyle and Wessex Police do not exist, and no real person or event is depicted. A short case study in how cheaply CCTV can now be faked — and what an investigator has to do to keep a manipulated clip out of the file.

25 March 2025 Read article →