A Labour MP calls for the Home Secretary to investigate the conduct of Richard Rhodes, police and crime commissioner of Cumbria, after a third alleged “whistleblower” is arrested.
Britain’s first youth crime commissioner, Paris Brown, says she is stepping down from the role after it emerged she posted offensive messages on Twitter.
The country’s first youth police and crime commissioner, Paris Brown, tells Fatima Manji she is not a racist and that she will not resign from her £15,000 a year post.
A teenager, who was appointed as Britain’s first youth police and crime commissioner, apologises after a series of offensive tweets which have led to calls for her resignation.
People with no experience of policing will be allowed to join forces at superintendent level under new reforms unveiled today.
Police downgrading offences to meet targets has exaggerated the fall in crime, say the ONS. But experts tell Channel 4 News that a rise in under-reported crime against retailers could be the reason.
A Transparency International report recommends that police chiefs set up independent ethics boards to monitor the risks of corruption in forces in England and Wales.
A chief constable who tried to block his replacement after a row with the new police commissioner loses an unprecedented legal battle in the high court.
Elections over the past 40 years have seen the growing willingness of voters to desert Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem – a trend which continued in yesterday’s polls.
Labour achieves a 12.7 per cent swing to retake Corby from the Tories following Louise Mensch’s resignation. But turnout in England and Wales is very low in the election for police commissioners.
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott, defeated in a run-off with his Conservative opponent in Humberside, was the highest-profile loser in the police commissioner polls.
The effect of all this is to artificially make it look like there has been a real increase in neighbourhood policing.
Who controls policing in the UK will be decided at the ballot boxes on Thursday. But who are the people in the running to be police and crime commissioners?
It is just two days until the first ever election for police and crime commissioners. Michael Crick finds out whether the contest is capturing the imagination of voters in the Thames Valley.
Two days before elections for the first wave of police and crime commissioners, Channel 4 News looks at the role they will play.