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DANNY SHAW

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How to stop a Riot: what does 2011 tell us?

For five days at the beginning of August 2011, it felt like we were on the brink of anarchy. In towns and cities across England, police...

Rwanda - a lesson in 'fake news'

Boris Johnson started it. On 14 April 2022 he said that the deal struck with Rwanda meant that anyone entering the UK illegally may now...

Sorry, IOPC, you've got this decision wrong

"This Inquiry should serve as a loud wake-up call." Those words, directed at the leadership of the Metropolitan Police, are contained in...

Pushing the envelope

Should police inform a suspect they've been charged with rape by post? I think most of us would expect that kind of news to be delivered...

Immigration - it's time to change the debate

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

Charles Bronson: a lesson for the Parole Board?

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

The fallacy of falling reoffending rates

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

The Government's open secret...

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

A Death at Manston: Questions for the Home Office

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...

Justice: why the delay?

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 crisis in our prisons: they can't get the staff

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

Missing inaction

“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 Met case with no appeal

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 question of judgment

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

What's special about the Met?

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...

Crisis talk

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

Required: Leaders in Policing

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

A Kiwi for Met Commissioner?

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...

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