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News article  —  1 May 2014

HMIC has found weak or absent management and supervision of crime-recording, significant under-recording of crime, serious sexual offences not being recorded, and some offenders having been issued with out-of-court disposals when their offending history could not justify it.

News article  —  22 July 2014

Police forces in England and Wales have met the financial challenge of the spending review – crime continues to fall, victim satisfaction is up, and forces are protecting their front line services as best they can, an HMIC report found today.

News article  —  4 September 2014

A member of the public will receive a different response from the police for the same kind of crime or incident, depending on where they live, a report from HMIC found today.

News article  —  11 September 2014

HMIC has release a report which sets out our findings following our revisit to Gloucestershire Constabulary in June 2014 to assess progress made against the 13 recommendations in the report, Gloucestershire Constabulary’s approach to tackling domestic abuse, published on 27 March 2014.

News article  —  31 October 2014

HMIC has published the latest value for money profiles which provide comparative data on a wide range of policing activities.

News article  —  18 November 2014

The national average rate of under-recording of crime is almost one in five, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) has found in its report, ‘Crime Recording: Making the Victim Count’.

News article  —  12 March 2015

HMIC, on behalf of the Rape Monitoring Group, has today published 42 local digests showing how cases of rape are dealt with at all stages of the criminal justice process.

News article  —  2 September 2015

Police custody in Gloucestershire had improved and the facilities were excellent but some areas required attention, said Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Dru Sharpling, HM Inspector of Constabulary. Today they published the report of an unannounced inspection.

News article  —  19 October 2015

The police service faces major challenges in the years ahead from reduced budgets, fewer officers and more complex crime, according to a report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.

News article  —  5 November 2015

The latest set of figures from the Rape Monitoring Group now present the most up-to-date picture of how rapes are dealt with across England and Wales.