Police are to be forced to obey a new code of ethics following a string of public rows including the "Plebgate" row. The code will be similar to the Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors and is aimed at ...

Almost eighty years ago the Nuremberg Trials established that the defence of following illegal orders was no longer an excuse, and therefore no longer tenable in a court of law. Any student of Human ...

The PCC has endorsed the police's new national Code of Ethics following its launch today. This update reflects the changing nature of modern-day policing, and simplifies previous principles into three ...

Police officers face being punished for being rude to the public under new rules planned to improve the reputation of service. Warnings about clocking on when unfit or impaired through drinking ...

One officer, PC Joseph Bryant, was found to have not told investigators about secondary employment while another officer, named only as PC X, turned up to work having taken cocaine. Both men would ...

A hearing is set to take place after it was alleged that a former Derbyshire police officer drove a police vehicle in an “unauthorised and inconsiderate manner”. Former PC Jordan Edwards is alleged to ...

CALLS have been made to stop the "ridiculous" amount of time it takes to investigate complaints against cops. The chair of the Cumbria Police Federation, Paul Williams, says the watchdog, Independent ...

A group is to be created to monitor the ethics and integrity of police officers in Essex. The Ethics and Integrity Committee is being set up by the county's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Nick ...