Handbags, handcuffs and hand grenades

Private investigators Emma Coles and Sam Hutchinson on surveillance, secret cameras, solving cases – and still being home in time for the school run

Watch out – it’s women on the case in the cool new crop of TV detective dramas

Prince Harry says he’s not safe in the UK without royal bodyguards. But who are the men and women who protect the royals? And who pays?

Our fabulous and funny columnist, comedian Helen Lederer is here to tell it like it is, in her own witty way…

Issy Vine, a former 999 call handler, is suing the Met after claiming they reinstated her colleague who made sexist slurs

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse