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Showing Stories from 19th December 2022 to 17th February 2023

(17/02/23) Full Taser roll-out vital as officer assaults reach 'epidemic levels' (16/02/23) Justice system still struggling (16/02/23) Force given 10 areas of learning to improve response to child abuse (16/02/23) Solving more crimes key to restoring public trust and confidence (15/02/23) Met officers did not assault teenager during 'heavy-handed' exchange (14/02/23) Herts using the courts to protect potential slavery and trafficking victims (10/02/23) PC who harassed female colleague given 12-month community order (09/02/23) Child sex abuse cases take 'an average of 614 days' to conclude (09/02/23) Chief superintendent too ill to attend trial for assault (07/02/23) David Carrick 'showed an astonishing degree of moral corruption'

SVROs: a new weapon in the fight against knife crime

(06/02/23) Merseyside is one of a few forces who will pilot new orders designed to put persistent knife crime offenders on the back foot.

(03/02/23) Stalker jailed after Met uses analytical software for VAWG case (31/01/23) NPCC and College publish police response to 2017 Hillsborough report (31/01/23) Delivering the female offender strategy

More than 1,700 drug-driving prosecutions thrown into doubt

(30/01/23) It comes as more lab test results completed by Synlab have been rescinded.

(30/01/23) Man sentenced for using 'utterly shocking' language to call handlers (26/01/23) Stalking super-complaint "eligible to be investigated" (25/01/23) Seized exhibits staffer filleted £15,000 from uncounted cash bags

Judges uphold unlawful killing verdict on man shot dead by AFO

(23/01/23) Man carrying an axe failed to stop when challenged and was tasered four times.

Detective's Casebook: Learning points from the David Fuller case

(23/01/23) In December 2021, David Fuller received two whole life sentences for the murders of two women in 1987. He received concurrent sentences of 12 and four years for 68 further charges - many of which related to sexual offences against 101 deceased victims in a mortuary.