Policing in Austerity: Rising to the Challenge

Note: Strategic planning, organisational management and value for money is now a part of out PEEL reports.

In the October 2010 spending review, the Government announced that central funding to the police service in England and Wales would be reduced in real terms by 20% in the four years between March 2011 and March 2015.

HMIC’s Valuing the Police Programme has tracked how forces have planned to make savings to meet this budget reduction. This report explains, analyses and makes recommendations in relation to what we found as we entered the third year of the spending review period.

Reports

National report

Read the inspection report, Policing in Austerity: Rising to the Challenge – 18 July 2013

Data

View the underlying data –  2011 to 2014

All force reports

Avon and Somerset – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Bedfordshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

British Transport Police – Response to the funding challenge (PDF document) – 18 July 2013

Cambridgeshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Cheshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

City of London – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Cleveland – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Cumbria – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Derbyshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Devon and Cornwall – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Dorset – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Durham – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Dyfed-Powys – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Essex – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Gloucestershire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Greater Manchester – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Gwent – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Hampshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Hertfordshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Humberside – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Kent – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Lancashire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Leicestershire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Lincolnshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Merseyside – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Metropolitan – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Norfolk – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

North Wales – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

North Yorkshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Northamptonshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Northumbria – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Nottinghamshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

South Wales – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

South Yorkshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Staffordshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Suffolk – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Surrey – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Sussex – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Thames Valley – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Warwickshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

West Mercia – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

West Midlands – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

West Yorkshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Wiltshire – Response to the funding challenge – 18 July 2013

Please note: In July 2017 HMIC took on responsibility for fire & rescue service inspections and was renamed HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). Inspections carried out before July 2017 may continue to refer to HMIC.