There is a scarcity of research on why police officers voluntarily resign from the service. The numbers of police officers who felt that policing was not a ‘job-for-life’ and voluntarily resigned from the police service have risen – from 1,158 in the year ending March 2012 to 2,363 in the year ending March 2020.
Author: SROP
Radical reform is required if the police service is to look like the society it serves
The Mayor of London has recently published an Action Plan to improve black Londoners’ trust and confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
Call for evidence: Phase Two
The Strategic Review of Policing has launched a Call for Evidence. This is the second part of its major, independent Review of Policing in England and Wales.
We welcome responses from all interested respondents from within and outside policing, including members of the public.
The Future Police Workforce conference
This year’s Police Foundation conference on the theme of The Future Police Workforce will form part of the Strategic Review of Policing. The event will take place from 23rd to 25th February 2021.
Delegates will have the opportunity to make a contribution to the Review through their input in Q&A sessions.
The police require radical reform if they are to tackle 21st century problems, says independent review
Early findings from a major review of policing in England and Wales show that the police service is not currently equipped to meet the range and complexity of the challenges it faces.
The launch of the Phase 1 Report by the Strategic Review of Policing in England and Wales
Join us on 29th July at 10:00am for our digital launch of the Review’s Phase 1 Report ‘Public Safety and Security in the 21st Century’.
The police should engage with the arguments behind the defund movement. It is time to rethink the role and purpose of policing
Following the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter uprising, a movement to “defund the police” has gained traction in the United States and to a lesser extent here in Britain.
The public want the police to be more visible and to focus on core tasks, according to new research
The public are concerned that the police have withdrawn from visible local policing, particularly in town centres, according to a new report by the Police Foundation think tank.
Sir Michael Barber to head major review of the police service
The Police Foundation has launched the first independent and comprehensive review of policing for many years.