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Recommendation 87
87
Accepted
Paragraph: 584
Isolated police forces impede national progress in tackling race disparities
Recommendation
Police forces also need to recognise the importance of coordinated national work to address unjustified race disparities and tackle racism. Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners should support work by the NPCC and APCC to establish national strategies and monitoring to ensure progress everywhere as problems will not be solved by forces working in isolation. Shortcomings in one force have implications for confidence and perceptions of policing nationally.
Government Response Summary
The Home Office commits to continuing work with the NPCC and APCC to support forces in collating and publishing data on public confidence, and to delivering recommendations aimed at improving PCCs' ability to use data for accountability and addressing community confidence.
Paragraph Reference:
584
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The Home Office will continue to work with bodies such as the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) to consider how best to support forces in collating data on confidence and making this publicly available. We also support the use of data in better informing leaders, such as PCCs, with the information needed to hold forces to account. Part 2 of the PCC Review outlined a set of recommendations to improve PCC’s ability to access and interpret data to better understand how effectively and efficiently their police force is operating within the wider criminal justice landscape. The policing landscape continues to change, and so the Home Office will continue to work with policing partners on how best to consider community confidence against trends in data and set out what action is being taken across policing in England and Wales. The Home Office will work with our policing partners to deliver these recommendations.