Inspection Reports

Efficiency spotlight report: The impact of recruitment and retention on the criminal justice system

In this report we focus on recruitment and retention in the agencies that we inspect.

Published: 15 February 2024

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the criminal justice system – a progress report

This report follows up on the ‘state of the nation’ report, published in January 2021.

Published: 17 May 2022

Impact of the pandemic on the criminal justice system

This report provides a cross-system view of how the criminal justice system reacted in the immediate aftermath of the first national Covid-19 lockdown (23 March to 10 May 2020), and of how the system has managed since. The cumulative impact on the system of the sweeping changes wrought by Covid-19 necessity is both clear and […]

Published: 19 January 2021

Joint Inspection Evidence led domestic abuse prosecutions

HMCPSI and HMICFRS have published a joint report on evidence led domestic abuse cases

Published: 23 January 2020