5 articles
• via Sky News
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood centralises 43 underperforming police forces into a National Police Service, repeating structural fixes that ignore frontline failures and historical inertia. Outcomes point to uniform decline, not reform.
• via BBC News
Police propose axing non-crime hate incidents after 133,000 entries diverted resources from real threats. The 2005 policy, warped by online disputes, exemplifies cross-party inertia in UK policing.
• via thetimes.com
West Midlands Police banned Israeli fans citing fabricated intelligence from unrecorded calls and AI errors. IOPC demands explanations amid parliamentary lies, exposing neutrality's collapse and trust erosion.
• via The Guardian
Activist groups demand police halt ethnicity disclosures in high-profile crimes, claiming prejudice despite policy's roots in curbing Southport riots. This obscures crime patterns and erodes trust across institutions.
• via LBC
A police leader equates national flag surges with division, overlooking migration policy failures that fuel public tensions. This stance highlights institutional disconnects in addressing social fractures across governments.