Introduction The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been at the centre of a storm in recent months and subject to huge turbulence. It has seen the departure of its serving Commissioner amid a series of scandals and errors of professional judgement and the appointment of a successor Commissioner committed to internal reform of the MPS. …
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The current malaise The resignation of Cressida Dick as London’s Police Commissioner following a meeting with the London Mayor Sadiq Khan in which he expressed his lack of confidence in her leadership of the MPS only provided evidence of a significant decline in public confidence in the force. Yet the resignation has in fact attested …
Time for internal management change? Policing in England and Wales has once again returned to the top of the political agenda. This has been propelled by a major review of policing from the Police Foundation which has recently presented a range of proposals to improve police effectiveness and service delivery [Police Foundation 2022]. Along with …
The introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in 2012, together with a new governance model designed to hold the police to account, brought politics firmly into policing. Hitherto, the acknowledged convention was that operational policing and politics should be kept apart. The doctrine of operational independence appears to have been firmly endorsed by the …
Introduction: the leadership debate: In this first in a series of blogs, we want to take the opportunity to positively critique The Police Foundation’s recent report – A New Mode of Protection, particularly through the lens of leadership. Our intent is to add value to the extensive work that has been carried out over the last …