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Leicestershire Police has demonstrated an improved standard of practice when it comes to keeping children safe from harm, according to a post-inspection review published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).

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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.

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Following a re-visit inspection, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has judged that due to the improvements made, the crime recording accuracy of Devon and Cornwall Police is now ‘good’. This shows a marked improvement since our initial inspection in 2016, at which we judged the force to be ‘inadequate’.

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Merseyside Police has made great progress in improving how it records crimes, according to a re-visit inspection report published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).

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Greater Manchester Police has improved its crime recording procedures but more work remains to be done, according to a re-visit inspection report published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).

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Humberside Police has made some improvements in how it safeguards vulnerable children, but has been slow to implement recommendations in other areas, according to a post-inspection review published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).

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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

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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

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The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) continues to do a good job protecting the public and reducing crime despite political gridlock in the Northern Irish Assembly, according to two reports published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).

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Lancashire Constabulary demonstrates a clear commitment to providing a good service for vulnerable children in need of protection. However, it needs urgently to provide better protection for those children most at risk.