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News article  —  12 November 2015

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate have today published a joint inspection report ‘Witness for the prosecution: Identifying victim and witness vulnerability in criminal case files’.

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.

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  —  26 March 2015

In 2014, Policing in Austerity: Meeting the Challenge found Gwent Police requiring improvement. A recent revisit inspection revealed that Gwent has made good progress since the initial inspection.

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  —  18 December 2014

Video recorded interview evidence from child abuse witnesses and victims needs to be a better standard for criminal trial, according to inspectors in a joint report published by HMCPSI and HMIC today.

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  —  7 November 2014

In September 2013, we inspected 18 forces as part of our three-year programme to examine the arrangements that forces have in place to meet the strategic policing requirement. These reports set out what we found.

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  —  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.