British Police Ranks – Lowest to Highest

british police ranks

Understanding the hierarchy within the British police force is crucial for appreciating the structure and order that govern law enforcement.  From constables patrolling the streets to chief constables overseeing entire police forces, each rank plays a vital role in maintaining public safety.  Police ranks are different between the different police force sectors in the UK […]

ANPR cameras to be installed on roads in Rutland

New automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras are to be installed on roads in Rutland, the East Midlands county. The cameras – which allow police to rapidly track specific vehicles as registration numbers are read and instantly checked against database records – are being put in place to help target cross-border crime. Currently, there are […]

Police Crime Prevention Academy delivers Designing out Crime qualification to 11 police forces

Designing Out Crime Officers (DOCO’s) representing 11 police forces are amongst the latest to undertake the accredited Level 5 Diploma in Crime Prevention – Designing Out Crime, delivered by the Police Crime Prevention Academy.  All Fifteen Designing Out Crime Officers who undertook the accredited qualification in March 2021 are newly appointed DOCO’s who will be […]

Public urged to be vigilant against terror threats this summer

With UK officials recently claiming that a successful chemical, biological or nuclear attack is likely to occur in the next ten years, police and government bodies are urging the public to be vigilant as leisure, hospitality and workplaces look set to fully re-open in June. In a recent statement released by Counter Terrorism Policing, the […]

UK police deploy Integrated Biometrics fingerprint scanners

Integrated Biometrics (IB), a global company in mobile, FBI-certified biometric fingerprint scanners, has recently revealed that UK law enforcement agencies are now using IB fingerprint scanners to deliver services in more than a dozen areas home to more than 11 million citizens in England and Wales. From City of London to Surrey and Sussex, Lincolnshire, […]

Specialist searches carried out ahead of Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral

Ahead of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, which is to take place on 17 April, Thames Valley Police has been carrying out specialist searches around Windsor and the surrounding areas. The heightened security measures are being put in place to ensure that the public is kept safe throughout this period of national […]

PM publishing UK security and defence conclusions from Integrated Review

On March 16 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be setting out his security and defence conclusions taken from the Integrated Review. The review, which has been conducted over the past 12 months, is the most comprehensive articulation of a foreign policy and national security approach published by a British Government in decades. The Integrated […]

Several terror plots thwarted since start of COVID-19 pandemic

UK counter-terrorism officials have revealed that since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, three major terror plots have been thwarted. According to reports in The Guardian, this takes the number of foiled plots to 28 since March 2017. The news has caught many by surprise considering the Home Office only recently published figures that showed […]

Coding error wipes UK police databases of over 400,000 records

It has been reported by a number of sources that over 400,000 records stored on British police databases have been accidentally deleted as a result of a coding problem that occurred on 10 January 2021. The records that were compromised – which include DNA, fingerprints and arrest records – are expected to be recoverable, however […]

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