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News article  —  4 July 2019

Profound and far-reaching aspects of police reform are needed, or services face unacceptable compromises in quality of service levels of public safety, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary has warned.

News article  —  12 July 2018

New inspections into hate crime, county lines and older people in the justice system, are central to the programme and framework of policing inspections published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services.

News article  —  6 July 2018

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services is publishing today a report of an inspection into British Transport Police on police effectiveness.

News article  —  12 June 2018

Dedication and a sense of duty by hard-working officers is masking a failure by senior leaders to adequately assess current and future demand, according to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Sir Thomas Winsor, in his annual State of Policing report published today.

News article  —  24 May 2018

On behalf of the national Rape Monitoring Group (RMG), HMICFRS has published a new interactive dashboard to enable a more thorough analysis of how rape is dealt with locally at each stage of the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

News article  —  30 November 2017

Police leaders must act quickly to fundamentally change the National Police Air Service if it’s to help police forces further improve their efficiency and effectiveness, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services has reported today.

News article  —  24 February 2016

In his State of Policing report for 2015, published today, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary says that police forces in England and Wales have met the standards of ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ in almost three-quarters of the measures applied by the Inspectorate.

News article  —  11 June 2015

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary is publishing today its report of an inspection into British Transport Police on police integrity and corruption. It examines the extent to which the force has put in place arrangements to ensure that its workforce acts with integrity.

News article  —  30 September 2014

Practice varied across British Transport Police custody suites, but overall detainees were properly cared for, said Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Dru Sharpling, HM Inspector of Constabulary, publishing the report of an unannounced inspection.