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12 Jan 2026

Police precept could increase due to rising costs

A police and crime commissioner has warned a rise of £15 per year, per home, in police precept is needed to protect police services from a…[more...]

12 Jan 2026

Cheshire PCC wants to become county's first mayor

Cheshire's police and crime commissioner (PCC) has told the BBC he would "relish" the chance to become the county's first mayor.
Labour's Dan Price was… [more...]

12 Jan 2026

London homicides at 11-year low, Met Police says

Homicide in London has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, new figures released by the Metropolitan Police show.
The force said… [more...]

11 Jan 2026

Slashing jury trials could clear courts backlog within a decade, says Lammy

The backlog of nearly 80,000 trials clogging up the court system could be cleared within a decade if parliament agrees to slash the number of jury… [more...]

11 Jan 2026

Sack West Midlands police chief, MPs tell home secretary

Senior MPs are preparing to tell the home secretary to sack the chief constable of West Midlands police after concluding that he “misled parliament” over the… [more...]