What do the Home Secretary’s policing reforms indicate for the future of the Police Digital Service?
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has actually ended up being a landing zone for Whitehall's numerous digital functions considering that the brand-new federal government pertained to power in July 2024.
Obligation for running the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has actually moved from the Cabinet Office to DSIT, however it appears the federal government's digital reshuffle may not be over.
On 19 November 2024, home secretary Yvette Cooper launched a declaration about the federal government's strategies to take a more "active management function" to bring back the general public's subsiding self-confidence in UK policing.
"Confidence in policing has actually fallen in current years," she stated. "Visible area pol...