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Rebooting the PC: Using innovation to drive smart policing
Max ChambersRebooting the PC urges police chiefs not to put ‘buildings before bobbies’. The police could save money and offer a better service to the public by closing out of date police stations and opening more local police offices in shopping centres and other popular public locations.

Expanding Payment-by-Results: Strategic choices and recommendations
Max ChambersExpanding Payment-by-Results argues that plans to privatise the probation service, underpinned by a ‘payment-by-results’ mechanism, will only work if the prisons system is wrapped into the reforms and prison governors are directly incentivised to cooperate with the new private and voluntary providers who are due to take over probation services.

In the Public Interest: Reforming the Crown Prosecution Service
Karen SosaIn the Public Interest explores the role and responsibility of the Crown Prosecution Service. It says the prosecution service should retain its powers but calls for more transparency and accountability when it comes to measuring the organisation’s successes and failures.
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Law breakers should not influence law makers
Glyn Gaskarth, Policy Exchange’s Head of Crime & Justice, sets out four reasons why the European Court of Human Rights was wrong to dictate that UK prisoners should be able to vote in elections.

Elected Mayors: What could this mean for Police and Crime Commissioners?
This week, the Chancellor announced new plans to introduce a directly elected Mayor for Greater Manchester, who will preside over a range of issues including transport, social care, housing and policing. In light of the announcement, Charlotte McLeod, Policy Exchange’s Crime & Justice Research Fellow considers what the future has in store for Police and Crime Commissioners.

Labour shouldn’t be scrapping PCCs, it should be working out how to make them better
Glyn Gaskarth, Policy Exchange’s Head of Crime & Justice, calls for Labour not to scrap PCCs. Glyn points out the good work many Labour PCCs have been doing on issues that Labour voters really care about, and asks what why an alternative arrangement would be better. He calls for Labour to instead develop a vision for how they would improve the role.
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