DANNY SHAW

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...

Over the past few months, as the Metropolitan Police has been buffeted by waves of scandal and criticism, I have been thinking a lot...

As a journalist I've covered thousands of stories. Many of them are forgotten about by the end of the week - sometimes I come across a...

Dominic Raab has his sights trained on the Parole Board. After announcing sweeping plans to reform prisons, victims services and human...

Here comes an early Christmas present from Boris Johnson. Just four months after his Beating Crime Plan, we are promised another slew of...

Here is the text of a speech I delivered at the CrimeStoppers annual dinner on November 17 2021. I have been reflecting on my career in...

What can we do about violent crime? The shocking killing of Sir David Amess is a terrible reminder of how precarious and precious life is...

Today, Lord Justice Fulford will sentence Wayne Couzens for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. As he imposes the mandatory...

"There comes a time in any organisation when it becomes clear that it would benefit from new leadership and new clarity of purpose. I...

In June, the Metropolitan Police was declared to be “institutionally corrupt” by an independent Panel examining the murder in 1987 of the...

David Blunkett tried to do it; now Priti Patel is having a go. The current Home Secretary is revisiting an idea first developed 20 years...