A nationwide police operation to tackle drink and drug driving has found the percentage of those failing breath tests has fallen, despite officers carrying out nearly 18,000 more tests compared with 2012.

Operational independence is essential to the British policing model

National policing lead for performance management, Chief Constable Steve Finnigan, said:

Commenting on the Crime Statistics for England & Wales, national policing lead for crime and statistics, Deputy Chief Constable Jeff Farrar said:

ACPO lead on alcohol and licensing Chief Constable Adrian Lee said:

Police officers from Romania, Lithuania and Poland have arrived in the UK to join the campaign

Responding to the Observer artilce (14 July), a national policing spokesman said:

The PSNI has requested mutual aid support in order to deliver an extensive policing operation during a period of parades and protests

The terminology used simply does not capture all roads policing resources and is incomplete

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary’s inspection of the use of stop and search nationally has produced ten recommendations for the service

The Home Secretary announced today (Wednesday July 3) that she will ban khat by making it a Class C drug.

It is an important tool to tackle knife, gun and gang crimes and terrorism but should always be used in a proportionate way.