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News article  —  27 November 2018

Police officers are increasingly being used as the service of default in responding to people with mental health problems, a report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services has confirmed.

News article  —  14 November 2018

Local agencies must learn lessons from past sexual exploitation cases if they are to effectively respond to ‘county lines’ drug running and other forms of child criminal exploitation, a new report finds.

News article  —  26 October 2018

HMICFRS has published the latest value for money profiles, which provide comparative data on a wide range of policing activities.

News article  —  16 October 2018

HMICFRS has, today, published the summary of a research project into victims’ experiences of hate crime.

News article  —  9 October 2018

The report published today by Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services reviews the progress made since the last update, published in 2015, on the 2013 joint report: Living in a Different World. The 2015 update was critical of the lack of progress in implementing the recommendations from the 2013 report.

News article  —  21 September 2018

Today, the Criminal Justice Chief Inspectors’ Group publishes its business plan.

News article  —  22 August 2018

Derbyshire Constabulary custody was not delivered to the standards required or expected in many important areas, with little improvement over the last five years and some poor outcomes for detainees, according to criminal justice inspectors, said Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector of Prisons, and Wendy Williams, HM Inspector of Constabulary.

News article  —  19 July 2018

Against a background of rising hate crime reported in recent years, police forces are today urged by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services to prioritise the service to victims, in its first ever report into hate crime.

News article  —  12 July 2018

New inspections into hate crime, county lines and older people in the justice system, are central to the programme and framework of policing inspections published today by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services.

News article  —  6 July 2018

The neglect of older children sometimes goes ‘unseen’, and needs greater understanding and a more co-ordinated approach from local agencies, according to a new report published today.