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News article  —  6 July 2018

The neglect of older children sometimes goes ‘unseen’, and needs greater understanding and a more co-ordinated approach from local agencies, according to a new report published today.

News article  —  14 June 2018

HMICFRS has published the fourth interim report on Operation Lynemouth.

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  —  11 April 2018

Today, Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary published their 2017 PEEL assessments. PEEL is HMICFRS’s annual assessment of police forces in England and Wales. Forces are assessed throughout the year on their effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy. At the end of the year, all inspection findings, graded judgments and analysis, along with Her Majesty’s Inspectors’ professional judgments, are brought together to produce a rounded assessment of each force’s performance.

News article  —  22 March 2018

Most police forces are maintaining a good standard of service to the public, despite dramatic increases in demand and ongoing financial pressures, but cracks are beginning to show, according to a report published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). Get the report PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – A national…

News article  —  22 March 2018

Police effectiveness is one of the all-force inspections carried out by HMICFRS as part of their annual PEEL reports. HMICFRS adopted an interim risk-based approach to inspection in 2017 in order to focus more closely on areas of policing where risk to the public is most acute. Under this approach, not all forces are assessed…

News article  —  22 February 2018

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has made progress in protecting vulnerable children in the capital but there is more to do, according to the fourth in a series of child protection reports carried out by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS).

News article  —  20 February 2018

HMICFRS has published the third interim report of Operation Lynemouth.

News article  —  8 February 2018

Police forces lack sufficiently deep understanding of the skills and capabilities of their workforce, risking their ability to meet future demands, according to a report published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services.