StopWatch UK newsletter

May 2025: Dismissing gross misconduct

New rules see gross misconduct treated as grounds for straight dismissal, 'unless there are exceptional circumstances'. What does that mean?

May 31

April 2025

March 2025

March 2025: Doing violence to data

Police chiefs and politicians fall for new research that suits their claims about stop and search's effectiveness, while a hospital's knife bin amnesty…

Mar 31

February 2025

February 2025: Eradicating knives vs changing lives

The national debate on knife crime ignites government policy, while the Met publishes its own charter of (in)action

Feb 28

January 2025

January 2025: Too much of not enough

Police complaints over pay undermined by inadequate performances of forces

Jan 31

December 2024

December 2024: All we want for Xmas is for the police to stop harassing children

Doesn't matter if the police have been good or not this year, 'cos they'll get a present in the form of a 3% real terms increase in funding

Dec 23, 2024 • 

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November 2024

November 2024: Postcode policing and the jackpot for justice

The Home Office's response to police failings across the country

Nov 30, 2024 • 

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October 2024

October 2024: Impunity for officers

The outcomes of high profile cases add to a growing corpus of documented struggles for justice in this Black History Month

Oct 31, 2024 • 

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September 2024

September 2024: Roasted on a spit by the police and crime committee

How the London assembly police and crime committee is (trying) to hold the Met accountable

Sep 30, 2024 • 

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August 2024

August 2024: Is this what you call progress? A nightmare on Met street

Between an embarrassing inspection by HMICFRS and front-and-centre coverage in the children’s commissioner’s report on child strip searches, the Met is…

Aug 30, 2024 • 

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July 2024

July 2024: From the airport to the custody suite, 'unlawfulness is endemic' in GMP

Out of special measures, in the mud... the force finds itself at the centre of several scandals at once

Jul 31, 2024 • 

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June 2024

June 2024: Revolutionising cop culture from within – a brilliant strategy that’s never worked before

The National Black Police Association has suspended support for the National Race Action Plan after water found to still be wet

Jun 29, 2024 • 

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