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Publication  —  Anti-social behaviour, PEEL, Spotlight  —  10 October 2024

This report focuses on the police response to antisocial behaviour. It also highlights examples of positive practice and joint working between the police and other organisations to address antisocial behaviour.

Publication  —  Rape, Spotlight  —  22 August 2024

Operation Soteria is a programme to transform how the Crown Prosecution Service and police forces across England and Wales respond to rape and other serious sexual offences. We inspected 9 forces to evaluate their progress in adopting it so far.

Publication  —  PEEL, Police performance, Spotlight  —  7 July 2023

This report focuses on the findings from our police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2021/22 inspection programme, which assesses the performance of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.

Publication  —  Equality and diversity, Ethics and accountability, Fire & rescue services, Integrity and corruption, Spotlight, Thematic inspection  —  30 March 2023

This report focuses on the values and culture of all 44 fire and rescue services (FRSs) in England and draws on the evidence collected through our inspections of FRSs since 2018.

Publication  —  Fire & rescue services, Spotlight, Terms of reference  —  16 January 2023

HMICFRS will produce a spotlight report on values and culture in all 44 fire and rescue services in England, based on our existing evidence.

Publication  —  Spotlight  —  11 August 2022

This report focuses on the police response to serious acquisitive crime.

Publication  —  Fraud, Spotlight  —  5 August 2021

In 2018, the Home Secretary commissioned HMICFRS to carry out a thematic inspection of fraud. This report sets out the findings of our revisit of the 2018 inspection.

Publication  —  Spotlight, Stop and search  —  26 February 2021

Stop and search legislation was introduced in 1984. However, 35 years on, forces still do not understand fully the impact of the use of the powers. When the police use their powers disproportionately, it causes suspicion among some communities that they are being unfairly targeted.

Publication  —  Collaboration, PEEL, Spotlight  —  21 July 2020

Many police forces across England and Wales collaborate with neighbouring forces to share resources and core functions. This report sets out our findings on how forces collaborate in order to provide better, more efficient services to the public.

Publication  —  PEEL, Spotlight, Thematic inspection  —  9 July 2020

The control room is one of the engine rooms of a police force. If it doesn’t have the right systems and processes in place, the force won’t have an accurate picture of demand. This will affect its ability to respond to calls and investigate crimes effectively.

In this report, our findings highlight the challenges that the police service face in handling calls with smaller budgets and fewer people.