Other high-profile incidents, like the case of serial rapist David Carrick, have raised questions about the standard of police background checks. The Home Office said the current situation means ...

Police officers who fail background checks will be automatically sacked from next month to close a "glaring gap" in the law. Measures will be introduced to parliament on Wednesday to make it a ...

The legislation would require anyone applying to be a police officer in Illinois to authorize all their former employers to provide full employment records before they can accept any final job offer.

A court on Wednesday ordered the release of the Phoenix police personnel file of Tyler Kamp, the Democratic candidate for Maricopa County sheriff. The file contains a first-person statement from ...