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Police reforms bring reward of £50m savings

Chief Constable Chris Sims is trying to balance the populist demand for local policing with tackling serious crime

Neighbours held after schoolboy killed

Residents in the crime-hit council estate St Helens are in shock after a 15-year-old boy was found in a pool of blood

Sorry? Then say it with flowers

Officers are using an approach called community resolution to tackle low-level crime. Offenders make amends in human ways

My boy Mark Blanco’s death was no accident

Three years after her son died at a party attended by Pete Doherty, his mother Sheila tells us she has damning new evidence

Madeleine fund hired ‘secret agent’ conman

Kevin Halligen was paid to find Madeleine but allegedly failed to pay private detectives who did the work on his behalf

Kevin Halligen: a man on the run

The security consultant who worked with the McCanns has fooled those on both sides of the Atlantic with charm and trickery

Home Secretary: Police should visit every victim

Alan Johnson says everyone who suffers as a result of crime should be seen and spoken to by their local force

Pirates find easy pickings with e-books

Publishers are estimated to have lost hundreds of millions last year to piracy with the figure likely to rise

The journey of a pirate DVD

A pirated copy of Star Trek was online within minutes of its official release and was downloaded more than 5 million times

Rogue clampers face five years in jail

Rogue clampers could find ways around new legislation to contiunue extorting drivers, warn motoring organisations

Sleep disorder wife killer declared innocent

Brian Thomas, who strangled his wife to death in his sleep, walked free from court after the CPS withdrew its case

Rabbi: I snorted cocaine to forget wife's death

Rabbi Baruch Chalomish, who is accused of running cocaine supply business, told court that his life had unravelled

Hunt for three men after teenager is stabbed

The victim, who police have not identified, has become the ninth teenager to be fatally stabbed in the capital this year

Worried pimp 'called off rabbi's drug-fuelled orgy'

Court hears rabbi so exhausted after days of cocaine-fuelled partying that pimp grew worried and cancelled supply of girls

Harman faces road smash charge

Labour deputy leader strongly denies charges of driving without due care and attention and driving while using phone

Father tells court of daughter’s last words

The father of Jessica McCagh has told a court in Arbroath how he pulled her from a burning flat and tried to save her

NHS cleaning contractors accused of blackmail

Three managers with ISS Mediclean, a cleaning contracter, have been arrested on suspicion of blackmailing foreign workers

Dad tells court of daughter's last words

Garry McCagh said that he tried to save Jessica after being awakened by Stewart Blackburn, who is accused of murdering her