Policing on the beat
Our Work — Policing on the beat
Antisocial behaviour is behaviour that causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one of more people from a different household than the perpetrator. We inspect and report on antisocial behaviour as part of our PEEL assessment programme.
Our Work — Behind the frontline, Police ethics and accountability, Policing on the beat
The Crime Recording Rules promote a victim-oriented approach to crime recording. This means that a victim’s belief that a crime has occurred is, in most cases, enough to justify its recording as a crime. We inspect how well forces follow these rules.
Our Work — Large-scale policing, Policing on the beat
Firearms are lethal weapons. The decision whether someone may possess a firearm rests with the police and, ultimately, the courts. We inspect how well police forces carry out their firearms licensing responsibilities.
Our Work — Policing on the beat, Protecting people from violence and abuse, Victims and resolutions
Hate crime relates to any crime or incident where hostility or prejudice against an identifiable group of people is a factor in determining who is targeted. Crimes motivated by hate can have an intense, enduring and sometimes devastating effect on victims or communities.
Our Work — Large-scale policing, Policing on the beat
The Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles aim to “ensure the blue light services are trained and exercised to work together as effectively as possible at all levels of command in response to major or complex incidents (including fast moving terrorist scenarios) so that as many lives as possible can be saved.”
Our Work — Behind the frontline, Policing on the beat
Between March and November 2020, we inspected the police response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Our Work — Large-scale policing, Policing on the beat, Specific reviews
In October 2020, the Home Secretary commissioned HMICFRS to inspect how effectively the police manage protests. We inspected ten police forces with recent experience of policing protests and consulted a wide range of other bodies, including protest groups and – through a survey of over 2,000 people – the general public.
Our Work — Police ethics and accountability, Policing on the beat
We inspect police forces against their commitment towards eliminating discrimination, advancing equality of opportunity, and fostering good relations with black and ethnic minority communities.
Our Work — Policing on the beat
Between 2015 and 2018, an average of 1,610 people lost their lives in road deaths each year. This change coincided with a cut of around 34 percent (or £120m) in the annual amount that police forces spent on roads policing. In 2019, HMICFRS inspected the state of roads policing in England and Wales.
Our Work — Police ethics and accountability, Policing on the beat
When the police use stop and search powers disproportionately – in differing proportions on different ethnic groups – it causes suspicion among some communities that they are being unfairly targeted. We inspect how police forces use stop and search powers.