DANNY SHAW

When I started reporting on the crime statistics as a BBC correspondent about 25 years ago the headline figure was invariably the main...

In the next day or so, a prison officer at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes will deliver a brown envelope addressed to “Mr Charles...

“Hugely significant.” That was the description given by Antonia Romeo, the most senior civil servant at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), to...

Last November, when the Prisons Minister, Damian Hinds, told the House of Commons that up to 400 police cells would be used to hold...

The news that a man who died after being held for a week at the Manston migrant processing centre may have had the highly contagious...

Monday October 31 should have been the day. The day when a crown court jury was sworn in to try a man in his 30s accused of raping a girl...

The warning lights are flashing in our prisons - but has the new Justice Secretary, Brandon Lewis, noticed? This week, three respected...

“We have a haphazard system of recording missing persons…anxiety is growing over the way in which we handle the problem.” That was a...

The Metropolitan Police has eight days to make an important decision. Is it going to continue its legal fight to sack two officers who...

A mile away from the political storms at Westminster, away from the cameras and reporters, a legal squall has been blowing at the Royal...

A crisis in policing? You'd have thought so from the headlines last week after it emerged that six forces out of 43 in England and Wales...

The Home Office "loves a crisis" was perhaps not the smartest comment by its super smart Permanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft. What I...

Over and out. Three candidates to be Metropolitan Police Commissioner have been ejected from the contest after failing to make it through...

A Canadian was governor of the Bank of England; an Australian is in charge of England's rugby team; could we be about to have an overseas...

A surprise - but credible and serious - contender has emerged for the UK’s most high-profile and testing job in policing. I can reveal...

It’s an impressive list of the great and the good of policing: Dame Lynne Owens, Martin Hewitt, Sir Steve House, Dame Sara Thornton, Sir...

The most remarkable thing about the Home Secretary is that she is still Home Secretary. Priti Patel is one of only five members of Boris...

There’s a month to go to the General Election. It’s a tight contest - and crime is a key battleground. A notorious prisoner has applied...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) headline on its website looks impressive: 'Leading UK business bosses help prison leavers get work in...

And so it is over. Dame Cressida Dick, described by one of her predecessors, Sir Ian (now Lord) Blair, as the "finest police officer of...