"Uncertainty about what the future holds for the Police Digital Service (PDS) continues, despite the UK government confirming the organisation is set to be absorbed into a new national policing body, as part of a wider reform of the policing sector. The UK government published its long-awaited whitepaper, detailing its plans to reform the policing sector, on 26 January 2025, with its contents being described as the most "radical blueprint for reform" the sector has seen in 200 years."
"Once this process is complete, the remaining local police provision will be "better supported by a much more coherent organisational structure regionally and nationally", thanks in part to the creation of a "national tier of policing" dubbed the National Police Service (NPS), according to the whitepaper. The overarching aim of these changes is to make the way the sector operates more lean and efficient, because having 43 separate forces "each providing back-office functions to local policing" is a waste of money, the whitepaper stated."
Uncertainty persists over the future of the Police Digital Service (PDS) as the government confirmed plans to absorb it into a new national policing body. The government published a whitepaper on 26 January 2025 presenting a radical blueprint for reforming policing. The plan commits to a significant reduction in the number of police forces following an independent review of the 43 forces across England and Wales. Remaining local policing will be supported by a more coherent regional and national structure and a new National Police Service (NPS). The reforms aim to deliver leaner, more efficient operations, stronger specialist services and clearer national leadership by bringing together existing national bodies.
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