Work in counter terrorism

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

Blood, sweat and tears made me a sweeping success

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?

Making the tea, wearing stockings and suspenders... after 30 years in the Met police, Kathryn West* has written a book revealing what it’s really like to be a woman on the Force and how she’s seen attitudes change over three decades...

Intelligence veteran Mark Lowenthal reveals how after a shift to counter-terrorism from the 1990s, spycraft is returning to its Cold War operations