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News article  —  30 September 2014

Practice varied across British Transport Police custody suites, but overall detainees were properly cared for, said Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Dru Sharpling, HM Inspector of Constabulary, publishing the report of an unannounced inspection.

News article  —  30 September 2014

HMIC has today published an inspection report into the child protection work carried out by South Yorkshire Police, following an inspection in May 2014.

News article  —  24 September 2014

The Independent Police Complaints Commission, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and the College of Policing have signed a concordat in relation to their promotion of good practice and continuous improvement in policing, in order to ensure public confidence.

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  —  10 September 2014

The Home Secretary has today announced that Dru Sharpling and Zoë Billingham have been reappointed as Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary.

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  —  29 August 2014

The first of a series of inspection reports into child protection has been published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. The inspection examined child protection in Norfolk Constabulary in April 2014. It is the first in a rolling programme of inspections of all police forces in England and Wales.

News article  —  28 August 2014

HMIC has published the first batch of force reports from our current crime data integrity inspection programme which follow on from the interim report we published in May 2014. These reports include specific recommendations for each force on how to improve the accuracy of, and therefore public confidence in, the way the police records crime.

News article  —  15 August 2014

HMIC is extending the consultation period for responses to our proposals for a new programme of regular police force inspections, to allow as many people as possible to have their say. The closing date for responses is now Friday 12 September 2014.

News article  —  4 August 2014

From September 2014, you’ll be able to find HMIC at its new home, www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk//