British police chiefs are reportedly preparing contingency plans to cope with a potential breakout of disorder should Britain leave the European Union without a deal.

Baroness Massey writes for PoliticsHome on better ways to protect vulnerable people in our mental health support system.

The retired police chief who was facing trial over the Hillsborough disaster has hit out at “political interference” in the decision to charge him after the case was dropped.

Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales John Apter writes following the Westminster attack this week; that it should act as a wake-up call to the Government to “invest more in the police service and put measures in place to protect the people who protect us”.

Theresa May has heaped praise on the "courageous" emergency services as police confirmed that they are treating a car crash outside the Houses of Parliament as a suspected terrorist attack.

More police officers than ever (7.8%) have taken second jobs, according to the headline results of our latest pay and morale survey. This was up from 6.3% of respondents the previous year.

Police must be prepared for a possible surge in hate crime after Brexit, a watchdog has warned.

Police have recovered a bottle of Novichok nerve agent from the home of Charlie Rowley, one of the victims of the Amesbury poisoning.

The Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service, Nick Hurd today celebrated the bravery of 80 police officers at a special reception hosted at 10 Downing Street.

Two officers from the Metropolitan Police have been named joint overall winners at this year’s national Police Bravery Awards, hosted by the Police Federation of England and Wales.

News that overnight allowance is to be paid to all those eligible officers who will be working away from home as part of the policing operation for the American presidential visit has been welcomed.

The head of GCHQ has ramped up calls for UK-EU security ties to be defended after Brexit as he revealed British intelligence thwarted four terror plots on the continent last year.

Post-Brexit Britain will be shut out of key European Union crime-fighting measures unless there is "more realism" from the UK Government, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator has said.

Sajid Javid has revealed that he was the victim of a moped mugging just months before becoming Home Secretary.

The secretary of the Police Federation’s National Detective Forum Karen Stephens has warned a new direct entry scheme is not the answer to the crisis facing detective policing.

Sajid Javid has criticised high street retailer Lush over an advertising campaign slamming undercover police as liars.

Doreen Lawrence’s life changed forever on the evening of 22 April 1993. Twenty-five years on from the murder of her son, Stephen, the Labour peer has ensured that Britain will never forget his name. But is society in a better place now than it was more than two decades ago? She talks to Sebastian Whale about the police, race relations and the Windrush scandal

Boris Johnson has called for greater use of police stop and search powers to halt a stark rise in knife crime - putting him at odds with the Home Office.

Police have questioned a suspended Conservative MP over alleged sexual offences involving two female members of his staff, it has been reported.

Amber Rudd will set out plans to spend an extra £9m on fighting use of the dark web by criminal gangs.

Home Office minister Victoria Atkins has been left embarrassed after she was unable to say how many police officers there are in the UK.

Top Labour figures have piled into Amber Rudd after she claimed not to have seen a Home Office report into serious crime which was later leaked to the media.

Amber Rudd has denied claims that police cuts are behind the recent surge in gang violence in London - but pledged a raft of new measures to tackle it.

Jeremy Corbyn is among a host of London Labour MPs demanding to meet Theresa May and Amber Rudd in a bid to tackle the recent surge in knife and gun crime in the capital.