The National Union of Journalists has welcomed support from a UK parliamentary committee in its campaign to ensure that police don’t obstruct journalists doing their work. The Joint Committee on Human Rights has published its report on policing and protest, to which the union gave written and oral evidence last year.

Avon and Somerset Police Authority has joined Southwest One, a joint venture to transform the services provided to the Constabulary and the communities it serves. In an agreement worth up to £185 million over ten years, the Police Authority joins the joint venture with IBM (NYSE: IBM), Somerset County Council and Taunton Deane Borough Council, which linked up in October last year.

It has been claimed that the Metropolitan Police covered up Princess Diana's assassination fears for over six years.

Shifting uncomfortably in your seat? Stumbling over your words? Can't hold your questioner's gaze? Police interviewing strategies place great emphasis on such visual and speech-related cues, although new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and undertaken by academics at the University of Portsmouth casts doubt on their effectiveness.