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Police forces still failing to record and publish data on ethnicity

News article  — 

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.

Race and policing: An inspection of race disparity in police criminal justice decision-making

Publication  —  Race, Thematic inspection  — 

In this report, we examine what published demographic data is available for a range of police criminal justice decisions. We then detail the policy context that exists for these, before setting out the findings from the fieldwork that we carried out.

Race and Policing: A review of the police service’s leadership and governance arrangements for race-related matters

Publication  —  Race, Thematic inspection  — 

This inspection considers the effectiveness of the national leadership and governance arrangements that relate to race and policing.

Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in West Midlands Police

Publication  —  Custody suites  — 

This report describes our findings following an inspection of West Midlands Police custody facilities. The inspection was conducted jointly by HMICFRS and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in May 2023.

West Midlands Police's custody services require further improvement

News article  — 

West Midlands Police has shown some progress in its custody services, but there are still several areas of concern.

Homicide prevention: An inspection of the police contribution to the prevention of homicide

Publication  —  Homicide, Joint inspection  — 

This inspection examined how effectively the police understood, and contributed to the prevention of, homicides.

More consistency needed across policing to better prevent homicide

News article  — 

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.

An inspection of how effective police forces are in the deployment of firearms

Publication  —  Firearms  — 

In this inspection we examined how effective police forces are in the deployment of firearms, including specialist munitions.

Police forces are effective in the deployment of firearms, new report finds

News article  — 

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

Police performance: Getting a grip

Publication  —  PEEL, Police performance, Spotlight  — 

This report focuses on the findings from our police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2021/22 inspection programme, which assesses the performance of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.