More than 23,000 potential victims of modern slavery were referred to the National Referral Mechanism in 2025. That’s a 22% increase on the year before, and the highest annual total since the NRM was created in 2009. Those numbers alone...

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A legal shift with practical consequences is underway. The government plans to return the test used in police misconduct cases involving use of force to the criminal law test, centring assessments on whether an officer...

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Retail crime is testing policing models across the UK, with shop theft rising and violence towards staff drawing growing concern from communities and retailers alike. Scotland has taken a specialist route: a national Retail...