Policing, Politics, and Faith: A Police and Crime Commissioner's Diary from Lockdown to 2024

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Alan Billings David Blunkett

Policing, Politics, and Faith

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A Police and Crime Commissioner's Diary from Lockdown to 2024

Alan Billings, David Blunkett

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Resource Publications (CA)
28 January 2026

Police & security services; Crime & criminology; Public administration

As the elected police and crime commissioner for South Yorkshire, Alan Billings was in a unique position to witness how the criminal justice system worked for victims of crime.

When Covid struck and the country went into lockdown, he began to publish a weekly diary chronicling how the police struggled to understand fast-changing government instructions and enforce the law without losing public trust. He saw the impact of the pandemic on crime and its victims and all criminal justice agencies.

As a new normality emerged, he reflected on a range of contemporary issues: the murder by a serving police officer of Sarah Everard, why police cannot admit to institutional failings, the persistence of knife crime, why stop and search matters, the growing understanding of domestic abuse, what the street protests for Palestine signify, the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, the proliferation of shoplifting and antisocial behavior, and the role of chaplaincy. He took an interest in ""what works"" and why the public often persists in wanting ""what doesn't work.""

These diary entries will be of interest to all who are curious to know about the way police and politicians interact and to have their thinking on crime, policing, and justice challenged.

By: Alan Billings
Foreword by: David Blunkett
Imprint: Resource Publications (CA)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9798385269211
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 28 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Billings was the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire between 2014 and 2024. He is an Anglican priest, a former Deputy Leader of Sheffield City Council, and a member of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales. He is the author of several books including Lost Church: Why We Must Find It Again (2013) and The Dove, the Fig Leaf and the Sword: Why Christianity Changes Its Mind About War (2014).