Specialist


PaDP 'should no longer be' a policing responsibility
(11/09/23) Neil Basu says he doesn't know what Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is going to do with PaDP, but whatever measures are taken must be 'radical'.

'Ends did not justify the means' finds interim report into covert policing
(29/06/23) An interim report from the Undercover Policing Inquiry has established that had the methods used by the Special Demonstration Squad been known earlier it would have been shut down.

HMIC warns of "overexposure" of officers investigating SOC
(07/12/22) Inspection of forces in the North East region identifies problems with consistency and capacity.

Investigators: playing the long game with skills and training
(17/06/22) The Uplift is having a positive impact on building capacity to deal with serious and organised crime but the model for attracting officers to the regional units who do the work has changed.