HMIC’s role at the conference
• To explain our role and to give our perspective on
the challenge for policing
• To better understand the challenges that the
people working for the police face in the new
landscape
• To listen and respond positively to criticism and
ideas
The challenge for policing is:
• The placing of the frontline professional officer at
the forefront of the task to professionalise the
police service so that they:
• Operate in a preventive way
• Are supported by an effective intelligence
infrastructure (and technology)
• Know what works and have the discipline to do
what the evidence says will have best effect and
• Work productively.
Missing the targets?
There are no central targets
Measurement = targets
Measure to improve
Focus on the evidence
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New accountability arrangements
• Home Secretary has set the aim to Cut Crime (and ASB) and sets the strategy for priorities requiring a national response (e.g. organised crime and CT)
• Local Policing Body, sets budget and holds Chief Constable to account for delivering an efficient and effective force
• Chief Constable has regard to local priorities in the Police and Crime Plan and national priorities in the Strategic Policing Requirement
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What has not changed is HMIC’s role
To report – independently and in the public interest -
on the efficiency and effectiveness of policing
HMIC reports independently to the public about how efficient and effective the police are;
from neighbourhood policing to organised crime and counter terrorism
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HMIC’s monitoring role
As part of this, Her Majesty’s Inspectors monitor the performance of each police force to ensure that:
• Chief Constables and local policing bodies are aware of emerging problems with efficiency or effectiveness, and are taking corrective action.
• If problems are enduring and there is a low prospect of them being resolved, then those problems are raised formally.
• Learn more in workshop session 3.1 tomorrow
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Other challenges
• Identifying and responding effectively to vulnerability and risk
• Maintaining trust in crime data
• Building the evidence base
• Fragmented and layered ICT legacy
• Deciding what excellent policing is
Excellence...
• What represents ‘excellent’ productivity of front line officers?
• If burglary is going up, should we expect to see a burglary plan to tackle the problem?
• What is excellent supervision?
• 27 % of stop and search records without reasonable grounds
• In only 3 out of 40 case files sampled by HMIC was the summary of evidence adequate - the rest were inadequate
Sanction detections per visible officer for
all crimes recorded (2012/13)
Sources: Sanction detections and crime rates are from Home Office Crime Statistics (now published by the ONS) for the year ending 31 March 2013. Visible officer numbers are from Home Office ADR601 data as of 31 March 2013.
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Across all forces the percentage of rapes treated as ‘no crime’ varies from 3% to 33% similar
variation exists in ‘no criming’ of child rape but in the range 2% to 18%
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“Missing the Targets?
...Lets Remember the Point”
The point is to do what works to improve the service and the outcomes for the public