In the last few months, I’ve found myself in various rooms with professionals of all kinds, including police officers, finding myself saying the same thing over and over again that I was saying in 2004 when I first started working on this. Last week, I actually found that I was quite deeply boring myself witless […]

Here are two ways of saying exactly the same thing — “Most people who are violent need a policeman, not a doctor!” “Some people who are violent need a doctor, not a policeman!” I raise this because the first quote comes from a medical handbook I once picked up in a book shop – probably […]

The creation of a professional college for policing – part of the professionalisation agenda – is an opportunity to work towards becoming evidence based. This is something that has been made clear to me over the last two months and something I’ve been arguing for years, incidentally! We can look around and see that the […]