At Leapwise, we work regularly with police forces, local government, and others to support transformation programmes that improve public services. You might have seen our recent blog talking about that kind of work with Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies, or our...
It’s nearly a year since Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party were elected with a huge majority, promising ‘mission-led government’ that would “move away from sticking-plaster politics”. In other words, there would be – its supporters argued – significant benefits...
More ‘bobbies on the beat’ is one of the most well-worn promises in British politics. The obvious way to deliver it: hire more coppers. In 2019, the government’s Police Uplift Programme (PUP) aimed to do exactly that. PUP set a target to increase officer...
Six Ways to Be a Great Police and Crime Commissioner We’re now one year on from the 4th round of elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) across England and Wales. It got us thinking about the blog we published around that time and which is just as...
As economic difficulties and strained public finances continue to dominate the headlines, demands for efficiency are ever more visible. In the US, Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been a disruptive and extraordinarily contentious example of this....
With another tight spending round for forces across England and Wales and a much more reform-minded Home Office, policing is undoubtedly facing a fresh wave of major change. We’ve written before about what this might mean for how policing is structured and...
