Police forces in England and Wales have risen to the challenge posed by funding cuts - but neighbourhood policing has been affected, a report has found. Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary ...

Across England and Wales, police forces made 949,526 arrests in total. That is equivalent to 17 in every 1,000 people. The previous year the total figure for arrests was 1,024,969.

Police forces across England and Wales should merge to create a more up-to-date and efficient service, senior police officers have said. Chief Constable Stephen House, head of the new national ...

Mr Clarke told Wales' police chiefs that if they did not agree by 24 February to merge into a single all-Wales force, he would press ahead with the changes anyway. The Home Office said that if three ...

Wales could have its own police force says Labour inquiry. An all-Wales Police Force is one of the options put forward by the Stevens inquiry, set up by the Labour party under the chairmanship of ...