Cause: Motorcycle crash The college's Chief Constable Alex Marshall said the feeling was the nature of police work has changed significantly and officers were just as likely to be "patrolling online" as on the street.

Police Officer Paul Dunn. Listen to the latest episode of The Independent Coronavirus Podcast, Contingency plans have been drawn up by forces across the UK, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. They want someone competent, caring and capable.". It said the training would help address changes in crime-fighting. All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, National restrictions in England from 5 November, Plans for statistical reporting on progress with the recruitment of an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales, User Guide to Police Workforce Statistics, Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance and support, Transparency and freedom of information releases. “We continue to ask police forces, the Home Office and Police and Crime Commissioners to not only retain but also build on protections designed to promote fair and equal policing. He has built a clear lead over Donald Trump in key swing states where final ballots are being counted. Officers have been given unprecedented powers to enforce the UK’s lockdown with fines and arrests, which they have been told to use as a last resort after a series of controversies. The 2,563 deaths included 2,160 White people and 150 Black people - 43 for every million White people and 72 for every million Black people. VideoThe man who feeds hundreds of parrots every day, How Americans are coping with the looooong wait. image/svg+xml. Anything else threatens the relationship between the police and the community. A Home Office spokesperson said: “It is right to give police the powers they need to protect the public and keep people safe, however, any use of force by the police must be lawful, proportionate and necessary, and subject to proper scrutiny. There has been heightened scrutiny of police officers and the use of stop and search, particularly in London, over the past year. These include deaths from road traffic incidents involving police vehicles, police shootings, and apparent suicides following police custody. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies.

Black people in England and Wales were twice as likely as White people to be detained by police under the Mental Health Act last year. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. He also said protecting vulnerable people has become a "high priority", with officers now spending more of their time working to prevent domestic abuse, monitor high-risk sex offenders and protect at-risk children. Of those, 93.0% are White, while just 1.3% are Black. Several doctors have also died during the outbreak in Britain. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. There are currently no standard recruitment requirements for officers across the 43 forces in England and Wales. It also follows the Home Office extending a pilot to make it simpler for forces to use section 60 serious violence stop and search powers and announcing a £20 million package of actions cracking down on county lines drug gangs. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. This collection covers police workforce statistics from 2010 onwards. “It is with great sadness that we can confirm that a member of police staff working in MetCC, who had pre-existing health conditions, has died after contracting Covid-19,” a Scotland Yard spokesperson said. Police in England and Wales are much more likely to target Black people with stop and search, use force against them and detain them under the Mental Health Act compared to White people. 'Stop the count' or 'count the votes'? Of the 370,454 people stopped and searched by police that year, 185,092 were White and 65,790 were Black. The government has today confirmed the police officer recruitment targets for every police force in England and Wales for 2020 to 2021. Share your best tips to help others on National Stress Awareness Day, Meet the people helping their communities through lockdown - and how you can do the same with InYourArea, Tonbridge letting and estate agent warns landlords to not get ripped off, InYourArea continues black-owned business campaign #IAMBOB during November and December, Welcome to the wacky world of The 1957 Tail-fin Fiasco. Numbers of police community support officers (PCSOs), who patrol the streets, have fallen by nearly 40% during this period, from 16,688 in 2010 to 10,139 in 2018.

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. We now need to ensure that the formula is revisited for future years to ensure a fairer allocation of officers across all forces, but this is certainly a positive start and will provide a much-needed boost to my members and the communities they serve.

BBC correspondent: 'Long Covid has left me exhausted', Frank Gardner meets paralysed student. Chief Constable Giles York, the National Police Chiefs Council lead for workforce, said the scheme would "improve our ability to attract and retain really good people". We use this information to make the website work as well as possible and improve government services. Covers data for police officers, police staff, police community support officers, designated officers and special constables. In particular, Black people are more than six times as likely to die from police shootings. Prosecutors are charging the offences as assault on an emergency worker, which can be punished by up to two years in prison. They used force tactics 614,660 times in 2018/19 where the ethnicity of the person is known - including tactics such as handcuffing, other restraint, use of batons, irritant sprays, tasers and firearms. Prospective officers can either complete a three-year "degree apprenticeship", a postgraduate conversion course or a degree. "By the end of this pandemic, it is very likely that COVID will surpass 9/11 as the single largest incident cause of death for law enforcement officers," Cosgriff told The Post, referencing the 71 police officers who were killed in the 9/11 attacks, and the … The information outlined in this article has come from various studies taken by Gov.uk and PoliceConduct.Gov, Link 1: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-use-of-force-statistics-england-and-wales-april-2018-to-march-2019 But retired police officer Norman Brennan, who served 31 years in London and now campaigns for police protection, said degrees came "at the bottom of the priority list" for police. You’ve accepted all cookies. Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. Don’t worry we won’t send you spam or share your email address with anyone. US election: Bannon Twitter account banned amid clampdown, Geoffrey Palmer, TV and film actor, dies at 93. And while the incident happened in the US, concerns are being raised that Black people in the UK are also discriminated against by police. Investment in policing is long overdue and for the first time we now have the actual number of officers each local force will increase by in the next year. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? “They may also be at increased risk of restraint in mental health settings and are subject to higher rates of detention under the Mental Health Act.

The Home Office has today confirmed the officer recruitment targets for every police force in England and Wales for the first year of the unprecedented drive to increase their ranks by 20,000 over the next 3 years. Our brilliant, free historic picture archive just got bigger and better, The weekly round-up: Flowerbeds, fundraisers, and gratefulness. They also include deaths in or immediately following police custody  - for example where injuries that contributed to the death were sustained during the period of detention, as in the case of George Floyd. It means Black people were 43 times more likely to be stopped like this - working out at a rate of five cases for every 100,000 White people compared to 232 for every 100,000 Black people. It means the Act was used 48 times for every 100,000 White people and 89 for every 100,000 Black people last year. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}All new police officers in England and Wales will have to be educated to degree level from 2020, the College of Policing has announced. To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. There have also been questions over the use of Taser. When compared to the population, it means that 37 White people were stopped and searched for every 10,000 White residents, compared to 315 stops for every 10,000 Black people.

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Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: “The police play a pivotal role in ensuring that we are all safe and protected. Link 3: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2019 In particular, police were 11 times more likely to use firearms (including cases where they were not fired), eight times more likely to use batons and six times more likely to use handcuffs on Black people. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more.