Yates jumps after he was pushed as May orders police corruption probe
John Yates, who dismissed calls two years ago to reopen the police investigation into phone hacking, resigned as Met Assistant Commissioner today – after being suspended.
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May’s police cuts: A gamble becomes a shamble
Labour have accused the Tory-led coalition of putting the public at risk due to their cuts – as a senior counter-terrorist officer becomes their latest victim.
Lucas: Drug addiction should be a health issue not a criminal one
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas sets out her calls for a new approach to dealing with drugs, and says drug addiction should be a health issue not a criminal one.
Woolly terminology undermines new ‘Prevent’ strategy
For the Home Office, its recently relaunched Prevent strategy was its third attempt at creating an effective counter-extremism strategy.
Extremism at university: What is to be done?
Counter-terrorism expert George Readings looks at the problem of Islamist extremism in university and examines what can be done to tackle radicalism.
Theresa May cannot ignore legitimate questions over police tactics
Labour’s Katy Clark writes on police abuses of power in recent years and why the HMIC may be limited in what they will and can do, and in the people’s trust.
Police Fed chief: May’s policies have police “careering towards” possible “meltdown”
Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation, made a devastating attack on Theresa May the Home secretary, and her policies today calling them “revenge”.
Will Clegg let civil liberties go the same way as electoral reform?
Bradley Day, co-founder of the No Police Spies campaign group, urges the Liberal Democrats to re-connect with and stand up for their civil liberties principles.
Police pay reform should promote performance, not penny-pinching
Responding to today’s publication of the Windsor Review, Tom Gash, a Fellow of the Institute for Government, says police pay reform should promote performance – not penny-pinching.
May’s talk of reform “a euphemism for cuts”
The Police Federation has warned that Theresa May’s speech on reform of the police service today was “a euphemism for cuts”, and that the home secretary “does not value us as much as she says she does”.