Police ethics committees in England and Wales: Exploratory online and web surveys

Healthcare services in police custody in England and Wales.

In December 2015, the UK government announced that planned changes to the commissioning of healthcare for people held in police custody in England andWales would not proceed. These changes had been well considered (having been in planning since a key report by Lord Bradley in 2009), set out formally, and described as one route to securing excellence. The government announcement, however, means ...

Reform of police pensions in England and Wales

We analyse pension reforms for police officers in England and Wales using force-level data. We quantify the impact on overall police pension plan liabilities, examining incidence across police officers, national and local taxpayers. We also examine reforms of retirement rules, especially concerning early retirement on grounds of ill-health. Differences in ill-health retirement across forces are...

Ethics committees and ethics consultants

Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...

Local Democracy Online: An Analysis of Local Government Web Sites in England and Wales

the system of criminal law in england and wales

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