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News article  —  23 July 2024

West Yorkshire Police is outstanding in the way it records crime data, but needs to improve how it investigates crime and supports the workplace.

News article  —  19 July 2024

Despite efforts to rebuild public trust, the police are still failing to meet the public’s expectations and are letting down too many victims of crime.

News article  —  16 May 2024

Today Ofsted published two letters with findings from joint targeted area inspections of the multi-agency response to serious youth violence in Lancashire and in Leeds.

News article  —  13 May 2024

Responses to the recommendations from the super-complaint report: ‘Report on the Criminal Justice Alliance’s super-complaint – Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and independent community scrutiny of stop and search’.

News article  —  25 March 2024

The National Police Chiefs’ Council have issued an updated response to the recommendations from the super-complaint report: ‘How the police respond to victims of sexual abuse when the victim is from an ethnic minority background and may be at risk of honour-based abuse’.

News article  —  20 February 2024

West Yorkshire Police has made improvements to its custody services, but progress in some areas has been limited since its last inspection.

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  —  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.