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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  —  6 December 2023

Thames Valley Police communicates well with the public, but it needs to do more to protect vulnerable people.

News article  —  8 November 2023

Thames Valley Police works well with other organisations but must improve the consistency of its service to ensure all children are protected.

News article  —  25 October 2023

Thames Valley Police lost opportunities to take stricter action against a police officer who went on to commit a child sexual offence, but it could not have reasonably anticipated he would commit this 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  —  21 July 2023

We will examine how effectively Thames Valley Police dealt with any intelligence it received in relation to a serving officer arrested for sexual offences. 

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.