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Election Year - Countdown

Over the next few months all sorts of promises and counter promises will be made to entice people to vote for a particular political party. For those of you who remember, the last time there was such a tight race and such a potential for change in government was in 1997. Over the prvious years, Tony Blair and his shadow cabinet colleagues had worked hard to demonstrate that they were a safe pair of hands to manage the economy and that they were

This election may well prove to be similar in terms of the top topics but undoubtedly, the work that has been done by the Conservative opposition  to develop their  crime reduction and policing agenda has been as significant as that done by Jack Straw and Alan Michael in the run up to the Blair victory. But we shall see whether the choices that Chris Grayling - the shadow Home Secretary - makes prove to be as popular as the Labour vision of '97 as the party of law and order.  In November 2008, the government confirmed its intention to proceed with police authority inspections in its response to the policing green paper consultation. The powers to inspect already exist through the Local Government Act 1999 and the Police Act 1996.



This document has been produced jointly by HMIC and the Prisons Inspectorate and sets out criteria for assessing the treatment and conditions for detainees in police custody to encourage best practice

Police Authority Inspections

The Policing and Crime Act will change the way police authorities are expected to carry out their duties and so invites HMIC to inspect police authorities with a special emphasis on the consideration of the views of the public. For the first time, police authorities will be jointly inspected across the full range of their activities by the Audit Commission and HMIC.

The Auditor General for Wales is responsible for the inspection of the Welsh police authorities jointly with HMIC. The reports on these inspections can be found on the Audit Commission website at the Police Authority Inspection reports web page.

Crime and Security Bill 2009

The Crime and Security Bill  - destined to go down in history as the - may well be one of the casualties. To quote from the Guardian  "The bulk of the bill as it stands at present is made up of measures relating to the national DNA database. It will include powers to hold the DNA profiles of innocent people for up to six years, which the Tories will oppose by arguing that the Scottish model of up to five years for serious violent and sexual offences would be sufficient. The bill also includes the power to retrospectively add profiles of those convicted of serious offences before 2004 to the database to enable the police to tackle "cold cases

There will have to be more in it than that if it is to inspire the electorate that Labour is the party of law and order and that they have answers for the the current problems of recession, rising crime, offender rehabilitation and prison overcrowding as well as policies to counter the well worked out Opposition policies on policing and punishment.

 Recent Publications 


Police Productivity Framework
This new framework has been designed by the Home Office, Association of Police Authorities and Association of Chief Officers of Police to support the overall strategy for the police service workforce. 'It should be used by forces and authorities to consider and improve the way their workforce is led, organised and developed to be productive in working for the public'.

Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System

The Home Affairs Select Committee published on 15 June 2007 the report of its inquiry 'Young Black People and the Criminal Justice System', which considered how to tackle the over-representation of young black people in the criminal justice system. This is the second annual report of the Ministry of Justice on progress made in taking forward 60 of the 67recommendations contained in the inquiry. The introduction to the report states "Overall, this report demonstrates good progress. Action is in hand to address, and in some cases go beyond, the Committee’s recommendations".

Knife Crime Sentencing Quarterly Brief - July-September 2009

The latest statistical briefing  information suggests that more people convicted of carrying a knife are going to prison – and for longer. The figures show the proportion of offences receiving immediate custodial sentences rose, and where immediate custody was given, more of these sentences were longer. There is no information within the briefing or related materials found on the Ministry of Justice site to suggest that there has been an increase in either probation or youth justice intervention in the lives of these offenders.

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Crime in England and Wales: latest Statistial Bulletin

Police Force Area Tables January 2010

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