Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced a raft of new legislation designed to curb the rise of life-like child sexual ...

A Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Special Constable has been dismissed without notice following an allegation of sexual assault. Gross misconduct was proven for SC Carlos Correia, of the West Area ...

Offenders convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour, and sentenced to 12 months or longer, will now be automatically managed under multi-agency public protection (MAPPA) arrangements.

The creation of a dedicated policing hub will support forces with specialist knowledge and training for investigators and officers, and lead on a national approach to preventing these crimes from ...

An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) found that a man who died after being taken into custody was dealt with in “an appropriate manner” by West Midlands Police officers ...

The report highlights that the Home Office has made little progress in developing measures to prevent VAWG and deliver long-term societal change. This was a key commitment in the VAWG Strategy and ...

The Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Angela Constance MSP, has led tributes to Martyn Evans, chair of the Scottish Police ...

Victims need a champion – someone who understands their experiences and fights for them. I’m proud to see these legal ...

The additional investment follows a “provisional £100 million commitment” made in December The Home Office says this will “kickstart the delivery of 13,000 more neighbourhood police officers” across ...

More than many crime and vulnerability thematics, ASB benefits from analytical rigour. The scale and complexity of ASB, ...

As the Home Office unveils new counter-terror-style powers to disrupt people smuggling gangs, the National Crime Agency (NCA) says its referrals to social media companies led to a 40 per cent increase ...

This includes stronger powers to seize and search mobile phones to investigate organised immigration crime and introducing new offences against gangs conspiring to plan crossings, selling or handling ...