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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  —  12 June 2014

HMIC has published two reports on how forces comply with the Strategic Policing Requirement. They examine how well the police service has met the requirements of the Strategic Policing Requirement in relation to the threat to public order and of a large-scale cyber incident.

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  —  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  —  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  —  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  —  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  —  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  —  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.