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News article  —  15 December 2023

The police must do more to minimise harm when using their stop and search powers and to better understand the effectiveness of these powers.

News article  —  1 December 2023

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has made significant improvements since its last inspection, but the force still needs to improve its management of offenders and suspects.

News article  —  30 November 2023

Today we published a letter with findings from a joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to serious youth violence in Manchester.

News article  —  10 November 2023

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

News article  —  27 September 2023

Today we published an annual review of our three-year policing programme and framework. 

News article  —  25 August 2023

Police forces are still failing to record the ethnicity of victims of crimes in nearly two thirds of cases, and they should publish more data on ethnicity to help build public confidence.

News article  —  11 August 2023

Most police forces effectively identify patterns and causes of homicide, and allocate the right resources to prevent it, but there is still too much inconsistency in how policing tackles homicide prevention.

News article  —  11 July 2023

Police forces are effective in deploying firearms, and officers discharged weapons at only 0.02 per cent of armed operations in 2021-22.

News article  —  7 July 2023

Police forces have improved in several areas in recent years, but the public is still being failed too often.

News article  —  13 June 2023

Data about police performance has been consolidated and made available to the public for the first time today.