Adam Simmonds: How Free Schools can help defeat crime

We know that children who are permanently excluded from school are more likely to enter the justice system.

Adam Simmonds: Northamptonshire has shown the way with collaboration of the emergency services

It’s co-locaction, co-location, co-location.

Adam Simmonds: Why we must reform Stop and Search

The equivalent of 250,000 people every year are stopped and subjected to hugely intrusive searches without the police sticking to the rules.

Adam Simmonds: Let’s make crime fighting central to the Queen’s Speech

Let’s have a Queens Speech that puts better public services, crime prevention and victims at its very heart

Adam Simmonds: The worst Home Affairs Opposition Front Bench in a generation?

Labour’s muddled policies on policing would remove local accountability.

Adam Simmonds: How children should be protected from violent video games

If the industry doesn’t meet its responsibilities, then government must step in.

Adam Simmonds: How I am making Northamptonshire safer

Northamptonshire Police now has the highest proportion of Special Constables in the country – and there’s better protectiion for witnesses.

Adam Simmonds: Labour and the Lib Dems want to ditch police accountability

Labour’s plans for a return to council run police authorities would be a backwards step