The Police Foundation
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The only independent think tank in the UK focused on improving policing. Hosted the Strategic Review of Policing https://www.police-foundation.org.uk/
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The head of the Metropolitan Police has called on the government to "change or clarify" the law following the arrest of comedian Graham Linehan over posts he made online.

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Met Police chief calls for law change after Graham Linehan arrest
Sir Mark Rowley says officers are in an
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Chief Constable Gavin Stephens, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, has said people in leadership positions in the UK needed to think about how to "reduce and diffuse tension and not sow division".

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Asylum protests putting police under chronic pressure, chief says
Chief Constable Gavin Stephens says police were notified about over 3,000 summer protests and warns against an
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Knife and Offensive Weapon Sentencing Statistics: January to March 2025
Numbers up 4.4% on last year and 26.2% over last decade
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Knife and Offensive Weapon Sentencing Statistics: January to March 2025
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Government launches AI crime prevention challenge to support safer streets

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'Police have been encouraged to consider disclosing the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases, after facing mounting pressure over the details they make public'

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Police given new guidance on releasing suspects' nationalities and ethnicities
Police forces will be encouraged to release a suspect's details in a move aimed at combating misinformation.
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NEW Are foreign nationals more likely to commit sex offences?

The Centre for Migration Control says 40-47% of those charged in London in 2024 were foreign nationals, who account for only 25% of London population.

Stats cited by Nigel Farage & Robert Jenrick
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But it's not the whole story.
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➡️NEW blog from our Senior Associate Fellow Suzanne Jacob OBE.

Our criminal justice system isn't listening but there are ways to close the gap between professionals and the public they serve...

🔗Read it here www.police-foundation.org.uk/2025/07/our-...
Our criminal justice system needs to listen
<p>Our criminal justice system isn’t listening to people, and it’s paying the price through an increasingly unreliable sense of legitimacy.</p>
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Is there a relationship between immigration and rape/sexual assault? Two charts and an old blog for your consideration.

First, immigration vs the prevalence of sexual assault recorded crime the Crime Survey.
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➡️NEW blog from our Senior Associate Fellow Suzanne Jacob OBE.

Our criminal justice system isn't listening but there are ways to close the gap between professionals and the public they serve...

🔗Read it here www.police-foundation.org.uk/2025/07/our-...
Our criminal justice system needs to listen
<p>Our criminal justice system isn’t listening to people, and it’s paying the price through an increasingly unreliable sense of legitimacy.</p>
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It's not our report but I'll feed that back to Sciencewise.
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New report | How might AI change policing? And what do the public want, fear and hope for a future where AI is part of policing?

From Sciencewise and the UK Home Office.

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