Ian Blair

Society

The significance of Stephen

• 16 January 2012

Society

Discomfort in the ranks

• 19 September 2011
• 1 comment

From benign neglect to outright hostility, the party of law and order has fallen out of love with the police. As the new Met commissioner prepares to start work, it’s time for the Tories to mend fences.

Law & Reform

The police take the hit

• 25 July 2011
• 15 comments

Politicians once agreed that policing was not a matter for party advantage. The scandal of recent weeks shows that era is at an end, says the former Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair.

Society

What can we learn from New York’s policing success?

• 11 March 2011
• 16 comments

The former commissioner of the Met, Ian Blair, on lessons - and a warning - from across the Atlantic.

Society

Racism is alive and kicking

• 02 September 2010
• 33 comments

The Metropolitan Police Authority announced recently that the Met is no longer affected by institutional racism. But has British society really been purged of race bias?

Law & Reform

NYPD blue won’t wash in Britain

• 19 April 2010

When it comes to cracking down on crime, Labour says we should look to America and learn from the FBI -- and so do the Tories. They are both wrong, argues the former Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair.

Politics

The policing revolution: back to the beat

• 23 September 2002

Crime - The battle against crime is far from hopeless, as New York shows. But if we don't learn the right lessons, we risk a return to the early 1800s, and the end of a single public police force