Police integrity and corruption force reports
Summary
During a previous HMIC inspection in 2011, we found that few police forces were actively aware of, or were managing, issues of police integrity. We also found a wide variation in levels of understanding of the boundaries in police relationships with others, including the media.
In a subsequent inspection in 2012, while many forces had made some progress, particularly in managing threats to integrity, more needed to be done. The pace of change also needed to increase, not least to demonstrate to the public that the police service was serious about managing integrity issues.
This inspection was designed to focus on the arrangements in place to ensure those working in police forces act with integrity. Specifically, we looked at four principal areas:
- What progress has been made on managing professional and personal relationships since our revisit in 2012?
- What progress has the force made in communicating and embedding ethical and professional behaviour to all staff?
- How well does the force proactively look for, and effectively challenge and investigate misconduct and unprofessional behaviour?
- How well does the force prevent, identify and investigate corruption?
Each report makes recommendations for its relevant police force about the next steps which may be taken to improve further its policies and practices around integrity.
Get the force reports
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Avon and Somerset Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Bedfordshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of British Transport Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Cambridgeshire Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Cheshire Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of City of London Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Cleveland Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Cumbria Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Derbyshire Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Devon and Cornwall Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Dorset Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Durham Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Dyfed-Powys Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Essex Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Gloucestershire Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Greater Manchester Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Gwent Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Hampshire Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Hertfordshire Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Humberside Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Kent Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Lancashire Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Leicestershire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Lincolnshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Merseyside Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Metropolitan Police Service (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Norfolk Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of North Wales Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of North Yorkshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Northamptonshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Northumbria Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Nottinghamshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of South Wales Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of South Yorkshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Staffordshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Suffolk Constabulary (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Surrey Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Sussex Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Thames Valley Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Warwickshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of West Mercia Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of West Midlands Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of West Yorkshire Police (PDF document)
Police Integrity and Corruption – An inspection of Wiltshire Police (PDF document)
Get the police and crime commissioners’ responses to the national report
Cheshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
Dorset police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’ (PDF document)
Dyfed-Powys police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
Gwent police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’ (PDF document)
Merseyside police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
Sussex police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
Warwickshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
West Mercia police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’
Wiltshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police Integrity and Corruption’