Can coppers cope with 'modern crime'?
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced the biggest overhaul of the police service in England and Wales in nearly 200 years.
Her reforms include reducing the number of forces, the creation of a "British FBI" and using data and AI to predict criminal activity before it happens.
Some of this has been heard before - so exactly how radical are these reforms? And will they make forces fit to tackle the changing nature of crime?
Niall is joined by Sky's crime commentator Martin Brunt.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:08.8 | Coming up, the government claims it's the biggest shake-up in policing since Robert Peele first put Bobby's on the beat. |
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| 1:29.2 | Policing is getting a reboot. Again, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood wants a hard reset. Little wonder, |
| 1:34.6 | after years of misconduct scandals, collapse confidence and accusations of two-tier justice. |
| 1:39.5 | Her plans include reducing the number of forces and the creation of a British FBI. |
| 1:47.0 | And a heavy emphasis on modernisation suggests she's of the mind that whilst crime has changed, the police have not. |
| 1:55.0 | So is it all as revolutionary, as the Home Secretary suggests, and just when might we expect to see these sweeping changes? |
| 1:57.7 | Martin Brunt is Sky's crime commentator. |
| 2:03.9 | Martin, just remind us, what exactly is the way in which policing is currently set up? |
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