Police Commissioners – the latest line-up
Michael Crick rounds up the runners and riders for the newly created posts of Police Commissioner.
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A lorry driver injured when his vehicle crashed into a stationary bus on the M5 near Birmingham on Saturday morning has died in hospital, police say.
Police have arrested the driver of a bus after a motorway crash that left one man dead and more than 20 people in hospital.
Michael Crick rounds up the runners and riders for the newly created posts of Police Commissioner.
“Our best guess now, as also pointed out by the independent House of Commons library in their recently updated report on police service strength, is that frontline officer numbers will fall by around 2,500 posts from 2010 to 2012.”
G4S and other private companies have been asked to bid for contracts worth £1.5bn for services currently carried out by the police, including crime investigation and neighbourhood patrols.
Over the past few months I’ve been keeping my eye on who might be interested in standing for election as police commissioners. Here are my very latest findings.
Private security contractor G4S could be on the verge of signing the first deal to build and run a police station in the UK.
More than 200,000 families will lose tax credits worth almost £4,000 a year unless they significantly increase their working hours, according to figures highlighted by Labour today.
A British idea, developed in the United States, uses computer modelling to predict where crime is going to take place. Now UK police are trialling the method in Manchester and Birmingham.
Detectives offer a reward for information on the whereabouts of an “extremely dangerous” murder suspect who escaped from a prison van in Worcestershire on Monday.
As the number of unemployed rises to 2.68 million in the three months to November, the highest level in 17 years, an expert tells Channel 4 News that young people and over 50s are “bearing the brunt”.
Both the Conservatives and Labour are hoping to contest all 41 posts for elected police commissioners, though with little enthusiasm, writes Michael Crick.
Police are still searching for the killers of a husband and wife who were found murdered at their home in Birmingham. The results of the post-mortems are expected later.
UK workers gave bosses nearly 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime last year – equivalent to 1 million full-time jobs and worth £29.2bn to the economy, according to a TUC survey.
As new figures reveal nearly 3,000 “honour” attacks were recorded by police in Britain last year, one campaigner tells Channel 4 News the reality is “much darker”.