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London’s police force has a deeply ingrained culture that can’t be fixed by one commissioner.
A policing expert on how ‘bad apples’ are supposed to be vetted and dealt with in UK police forces.
Civil liberties groups in the UK and elsewhere want to stop the police from using this technology altogether, but that’s going too far.
The structural and cultural challenges that have long plagued the Met Police will take more than a new commissioner to solve.
“Super-recognisers” who can identify a range of ethnicities could help increase fraud detection rates at passport control and decrease false conviction rates that have relied on CCTV.
In Scotland, researchers have been at the heart of police reforms – all very different to south of the border.
When big data is used for police profiling and surveillance, it puts human rights on the line.
An expert in criminology explains why you shouldn’t believe everything you see on TV – organised crime is still a very British problem.
After a series of high-profile resignations and allegations of misconduct, effective leadership of Scotland’s centralised police force is lacking.
The Met’s fingerprints are all over the havoc a few hundred miles north.
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Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth
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