Vera Baird Articles

Without an increase in officer levels, the Criminal Prosecution Service's commitment to tackle hate crime will go unfulfilled, writes Northumbria police and crime commissioner Vera Baird Director of public prosecutions Alison Saunders announced this week that online...

Now that the latest crime figures, published last week, show both 'a small but genuine increase in some categories of violent crime' and an undoubted growth in crime reporting, it is ripe to call time on the Tory claim that the police can be cut because they have less...

The attorney general should not preen himself in the press for his recent success in lengthening jail sentences for robbers and burglars. Instead he should tackle the unduly lenient sentences handed out for domestic abuse – as the Tories’ election manifesto pretended...

A much-praised scheme devised by a former police sergeant from Plymouth is safeguarding children and young people affected by domestic abuse, despite obstacles caused by the government’s academies agenda. Though it received early praise from Ofsted, ‘Operation...