The British justice secretary, David Lammy, announced the contentious move on Tuesday as part of an attempt to tackle a ...

The latest crime figures for England and Wales show police-recorded homicides at a historic low and knife offences falling, though shoplifting remains close to record levels. Here the PA news agency ...

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people charged with shoplifting, according to Surrey Police. Since 2023, ...

Crime as experienced and recounted by adults is falling in general and has been since the mid-1990s. But recently certain kinds of crime, particularly violent crime, have been increasing. An estimated ...

Police and crime commissioners (PCC) are to be scrapped in England and Wales to save £100m over this parliament's term, the ...

A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain ...

Total police-recorded crime in England and Wales has fallen by 1% year on year (Amanda Rose/Alamy/PA) The latest crime figures for England and Wales show police-recorded homicides at a historic low ...

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