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Our Work — Victims and resolutions
Between 2010 and 2013, we inspected reform and processes in the criminal justice system.
Our Work — Large-scale policing
In early 2013, HMICFRS (then HMIC) carried out an inspection of police force compliance with the ‘Memorandum of Understanding between the National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) and the Police Forces and Partner Law Enforcement Agencies of England and Wales’.
Our Work — International and specialist agencies, Specific reviews
HMICFRS inspects the British Transport Police (BTP) when we are commissioned to do so by the Minister of State for Transport.
Our Work — Behind the frontline
The Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is an international human rights treaty designed to strengthen protection for people deprived of their liberty.
Our Work — Behind the frontline, Protecting people from violence and abuse, Protecting people online
Digital crimes are those which can be increased in scale by the use of computers, computer networks and the internet. This includes cyber-enabled fraud and data theft.
Publication — Criminal justice joint inspections, Custody suites —
This report is one of a series on police custody inspections carried out jointly by HMI Prisons and HMICFRS. The inspections look at strategy, treatment and conditions, individual rights and health care. They also contribute to the United Kingdom’s response to its international obligation to ensure regular and independent inspection of all places of detention.
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Border Force in England and Scotland continues to care well for detainees, said Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Dru Sharpling, HM Inspector of Constabulary, publishing the report of an unannounced inspection.
Publication — Child protection —
Protecting children is one of the most important tasks the police undertake. Only the police can investigate suspected crimes, arrest perpetrators and monitor sex offenders. Police officers have the power to take a child who is in danger into a place of safety, or to seek an order to restrict an offender’s contact with children. The police service also has a significant role working with other agencies to ensure the child’s protection and well-being, longer term.
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HMICFRS is encouraged by the progress Cumbria Constabulary has made in improving how it protects children, and is assured of the continuing commitment of the constabulary to making further improvements.
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HMICFRS has found that while some improvements have been made to how Cleveland Police protects children, it needs to take further action (in some areas as a matter of urgency) to strengthen its safeguarding practice in order to protect adequately those children most at risk.