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News article  —  16 December 2022

Police officers sometimes do not recognise the potential risk of honour-based abuse for victims of sexual abuse and the service these victims receive is not always good enough.

News article  —  7 December 2022

Today we published a report about an inspection of the north-east regional response to serious and organised crime.

News article  —  1 December 2022

Police forces are unable to keep pace with technology when it comes to digital forensics – and there is a backlog of more than 25,000 devices waiting to be examined.

News article  —  23 November 2022

Today we published the responses to the recommendations from ‘Police perpetrated domestic abuse: Report on the Centre for Women’s Justice super complaint’.

News article  —  2 November 2022

Police vetting standards are not high enough and it is too easy for the wrong people to both join and stay in the police.   

News article  —  2 September 2022

Today we published the terms of reference for HMICFRS’s inspection of how effectively the criminal justice system meets the needs of victims.

News article  —  11 August 2022

The police response to burglary, robbery and theft is not consistently good enough – and victims face a postcode lottery when it comes to how thoroughly officers might investigate crimes.

News article  —  29 July 2022

Today, we have published our policing inspection programme and framework for the three years from April 2022.

News article  —  14 July 2022

Today, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation published a joint report conducted with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons. This report looked at whether prisons, police and probation, along with other agencies, had achieved delivering MAPPA.

News article  —  30 June 2022

There are ‘systemic deficiencies’ in the way some police forces in England and Wales deal with allegations of domestic abuse against their own officers and staff.