Foundation for leadership
The coalition government has articulated a radical shift in policing
which logically requires a radical shift in the way the service
approaches the development of its leaders and people. Peter Neyroud
explains how his review will look to build on solid foundations.
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Leading from within
Leadership development is now widely accepted as a necessary element of
police forces’ work to develop their present and future leaders. John
Baxter highlights the pivotal role coaching can play as part of a
force’s leadership development strategy.
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Reform and recession
The Government’s consultation period on its reform programme is about
to conclude amid the greatest financial challenge the service has faced
since the war, making the English and Welsh superintendents’ annual
conference next week perfect timing for debating major issues affecting
policing.


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Modern day slavery
The trade in human beings for sexual exploitation is changing, with more victims arriving from South East Asia, many destined for brothels in residential areas in all parts of the country. Police Professional looks at the research and implications for forces.
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Police reform
The Government’s recently-published consultation paper, Policing in the 21st Century, ‘signals the most radical change to policing in 50 years’ and the Government intends to place its key proposals into a Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill to be introduced later this year. Peter Joyce and Neil Wain analyse some of the key proposals that have been suggested.
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Ahead on compliance
A review of information held across all police systems in Lincolnshire identified a number of people who have continued to work with vulnerable people despite coming to the attention of the police. Police Professional spoke to the force about how full compliance with information rules is leading to benefits in efficiency and public protection.
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Exceptional intelligence
The National Intelligence Model (NIM) has long been labelled
‘bureaucratic’ and is currently having that bureaucracy designed out.
The anti-bureaucracy drive has come knocking at the NIM’s door because
intelligence products are suspected of being wordy tombs, published too
frequently and for often unattributable outcomes, as Heath Waller
explains.
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Crime mapping – What’s stopping us?
In his first article, Fraser Sampson looked at the question: ‘How much
should people be told about crime in their neighbourhoods?’ Given the
answer – and what seems to be such a compelling case for making more
crime information available – leaves the obvious question: ‘What is
stopping us?’ Here, he explains, in the second and final installment,
there are conflicting arguments based on contradictory evidence.
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Mapping decisions – Crime information in the new policing landscape
As we hit a period of unseasonably hot consultation here is a question
for all criminal justice professionals: How much should we tell our
communities about crime in their areas? It is a question all police
forces and their authorities have been facing for a while; now it is
back at the top of the in-tray, explains Fraser Sampson in the first
installment of a two-part article.
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The final page
In September, Julie Spence will complete a 32-year career that has concluded with six years in charge of Cambridgeshire Constabulary, a force she has taken from the turmoil after Soham to be constantly improving and, more importantly, on the same page as the public.
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