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 …

a large increase in the number of police officers around the stadium, potential offenders are attracted to crowds where …