National Police Chiefs' Council Chair, Chief Constable Sara Thornton, has issued the following statement after a discussion at Chief Constables' Council on the topic of compulsory severance for police officers.

At Chief Constables Council this week, Police Chief's will be considering whether to reluctantly ask the Home Secretary to introduce compulsory severance as an option to manage significant further cuts to the service.

National Police Chief’s Council Lead on New Psychoactive Substances, Commander Simon Bray said:

National Police Chief's Council workforce lead Chief Constable Giles York said:

National Police Chiefs’ Council lead on digital intelligence and investigations, Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh responds to the latest techUK report which calls on police and industry to work together to tackle cyber crime.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead on Performance Management, Chief Constable Steve Finnigan, has responded to today’s (October 20^th) report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary into police efficiency.

National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) Lead on Roads Policing, Chief Constable Suzette Davenport, has responded to an RAC report that outlines a reduction in mobile phone offences over the past five years.

“Traditional crime is falling”. While that statement may be true, it doesn’t tell the whole story. Modern crime investigation and prevention techniques, as well as simple economics, have resulted in sharp reductions in many acquisitive crimes types over the period of my service.

This quarter's crime statistics have trialled questions to the public on the scale of cyber-crime and fraud experienced.  It shows 5.1 million incidents fraud with 3.8 million adult victims and 2.5 million incidents of crime falling under the Computer Misuse Act.

The National Police Chiefs' Council has reponded to statistics released by the Home Office this morning on hate crime in England and Wales 2014/15.

NPCC Lead on Taser, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu has responded to a BBC story about disproportionality in the use of Taser.

Following Panorama’s investigation into police investigations into non-recent child sexual abuse by parliamentarians, police remind those reporting or commenting on these cases to consider the impact on vulnerable victims or witnesses.