The paper analyses the impact of centrally regulated pay on the quality of applicants to be police officers in England … quality of applicants. First, national wage setting implies that relative wages between the police and other occupations vary … the proportion of crime that is violent) is also associated with lower quality police applicants. …

We examine ill-health retirement of police officers in England and Wales between 2002-3 and 2009-10. Differences in ill … human resources policies. Reforms to police pensions plans- in particular a shift in the incidence of financing ill …-health retirement from central government to local police authorities- impacted on the level of ill-health retirement, especially among …

Since 1995, police forces in England and Wales have obtained the right to raise revenues locally to supplement central … significantly across area and time. We seek to explain this variation in locally raised police revenues over the 2000s, unpicking … the role of local differences in preferences, central government funding, the production of public safety given police …