The Law and Order Foundation has started a new crowdfunding appeal today. Weʼre hoping to raise £10,000 to set up the charity and start running our projects. Norman Brennan, the director of the Law and Order Foundation, launched the appeal on talkRADIO this afternoon. The page can be accessed on the JustGiving website or via our donations page.

A new dawn for Law and Order Today we set-up our new fundraising campaign to help us establish our organisation. Your financial support will help give us the foundations on which to build a better and safer future for us all. Please take a look at our GoFundMe page… A message from Norman: “For 27yrs…

Four men were stabbed in North London on Sunday evening, just 24 hours after a shotgun was fired into a minicab less than half a mile away. The police are already investigating possible links between the two incidents. No arrests have been made so far. On Sunday evening at around 6pm, officers were called after…

Some of Britain’s leading, retired homicide detectives and present law and order campaigners have today joined together to form a foundation to campaign for victims’ rights, and to give them and the public a voice. The Law and Order Foundation will lobby for changes that will protect us all from crime, fund initiatives that deter…

Knife crime is at its highest level since 2011, according to official government statistics released last week. In the year ending March 2018, there were around 40,100 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales. This represents a 50% increase in the last three years (since 2014/15), and the highest number since…

Britain’s criminal justice system is unable to cope because it is critically short of resources, according to the head of the Crown Prosecution Service.  In her final interview before stepping down, Alison Saunders said the amount of data required for many prosecutions and the shortage of staff meant cases were not being investigated efficiently. Saunders…

The police are struggling to cope and are becoming irrelevant, according to a report published today by the Home Affairs Select Committee. The report warned that there would be severe consequences for public safety if funding for the police service was not increased. Some forces across England and Wales have lost more than two-thirds of…

The number of stabbing victims being treated by the NHS has increased by 34% in the last two years, according to the Guardian. Data from nine major trauma centres in England show the number of people being treated has jumped from 1,697 people in 2015-16 to 2,278 in 2017-18. Dr Ross Davenport, a consultant surgeon at the Royal…

Britain’s beleaguered and underfunded police have been denied an increase in funds, according to The Times newspaper. Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, met Phillip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, last week to demand more money to counter the cuts to the police service, but his request was rejected. A cabinet source said that Mr…

The police service is on the verge of failing the public as a result of the government cuts, according to two senior figures. Both Dave Thompson, the chief constable of the West Midlands force, and Keith Hunter, the Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner, said the police were at the ‘tipping point’. In a blog post, Thompson…