Labour Police and Crime Commissioners have expressed their concerns at what the government continue to state in relation to protection for police funding. * In 2015 Spending Review, the government gave a commitment that there would be no cuts...
An Acting Chief Constable has been appointed at Northumbria Police with effect from the 2nd October 2017, this is to facilitate the retirement of current Chief Constable, Steve Ashman who has a number of police engagements outside the force area and...
Leading Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, has taken her demand for action to the very top of government. In a letter to the Home Secretary, Dame Vera has demanded that extra funding be made available to...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, and a patron of Operation Encompass, which champions engagement with schools when a child is known to have experienced domestic abuse, yesterday, (Tuesday, 19 September) welcomed the findings of an Ofsted report which...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, has praised a new initiative where sniffer dogs have been trained by Devon & Cornwall and Dorset police to help catch paedophiles, terrorists and fraudsters by detecting hidden digital storage...
Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird QC, has spoken out once again about the unlawful storage of millions of innocent people’s images, as part of a national police facial recognition database. The Commissioner, who has previously raised...
Business owners are being called upon to tell the police about their experiences of cybercrime, thanks to a new survey available across the region. Over 50% of crime is conducted online. To help combat this, the North East’s three...
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