Publications

Publication — Crime recording — 1 May 2014

Summary In its 2013/14 inspection programme, approved by the Home Secretary under section 54 of the Police Act 1996, HMIC is committed to carry out an inspection into the way the 43 police forces in England and Wales record crime data. This inspection, carried out between February and August 2014, is the most extensive of...

Publication — Custody suites — 30 April 2014

Summary This report is one of a series on police custody inspections carried out jointly by HMIC and HMI Prisons. The inspections look at strategy, treatment and conditions, individual rights and health care. They also make a key contribution to the United Kingdom’s response to its international obligation to ensure regular and independent inspection of...

Publication — National report, Strategic Policing Requirement — 10 April 2014

The Strategic Policing Requirement: An inspection of the arrangements that police forces have in place to meet the Strategic Policing Requirement Summary This inspection examined how well police forces have established the arrangements that the Strategic Policing Requirement requires them to have in place to counter a number of specified threats to national security and...

Publication — Police and Crime Commissioners — 3 April 2014

Cheshire Constabulary – review of burglary dwelling investigations Summary A report by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), which reviewed burglary dwelling investigations by Cheshire Constabulary, has found clear evidence that staff at all ranks are committed to tackling burglary dwelling. The review, which was commissioned by the police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Cheshire, found...

Publication — Business Plans — 31 March 2014

Summary The document sets out HMIC’s inspection programme and resources for the year ahead. Get the document HMIC inspection programme 2014/15 (PDF document) To help forces with planning, we have produced an interim inspection schedule for the period of March 2014 to June 2015. Please note: The schedule for the first two quarters of 2014/15...

Publication — Annual reports — 31 March 2014

The Police Act 1996 requires Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary to report each year on his assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of policing in England and Wales. The assessment covers the full breadth of policing work inspected by HMIC throughout 2012/13, and an overview of police forces in England and Wales.

Publication — Criminal justice joint inspections, Joint inspection — 27 March 2014

A Joint Inspection of the Integrated Offender Management Approach by HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary.

Publication — Domestic abuse — 27 March 2014

In September 2013, HMIC was commissioned by the Home Secretary to inspect the police response to domestic violence and abuse. This report found that, while most forces and police and crime commissioners said domestic abuse is a priority, this isn’t being translated into an operational reality.

Publication — 11 March 2014

Following a full review of findings from the 2013 inspection, Policing in austerity: Rising to the Challenge, HMIC has produced this compendium, which brings together interesting, practical examples of how forces are approaching the budget reductions.

Publication — Child protection — 24 February 2014

NSPCC report ‘Would they actually have believed me?’ A focus group exploration of the underreporting of crimes by Jimmy Savile In March 2013, HMIC published, ‘Mistakes were made’ our review into the allegations and intelligence material concerned Jimmy Savile between 1964 and 2012. In this report we acknowledged “serious concerns about the number of victims...