Hiring 20,000 more police officers does not translate to having 20,000 more coppers serving on our streets. This was the lesson in the first blog in this series, which showed that an increasing proportion of warranted officers have been going into support services...
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....
