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DANNY SHAW

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Have Labour set an impossible target?

In March 2023, Sir Keir Starmer travelled to Stoke-On-Trent for a speech that would define Labour’s mission on law and order.  At Vale...

An unwanted anniversary...

Seven years ago last weekend, Novlett Williams' life changed forever. Williams, known to her friends and colleagues as Robyn, was then a...

The Costs of Justice

What does Rachel Reeves' Budget do for policing, justice and immigration?  Here's a quick guide to the three Government departments...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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