Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 5
5
Deferred
Publish government's formal response to HMICFRS review on supporting police force implementation.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government publishes a formal response, after the second tranche of the HMICFRS review is published, setting out how it will support police forces to implement the findings of the review, including any additional funding if required, and over what timeframe. (Recommendation, Paragraph 25)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government outlines its ambition to halve Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) with a new strategy to be published later this year, and has announced £13.1 million for a new National Centre for VAWG and Public Protection. It also mentions a forthcoming police reform White Paper but does not commit to a formal response to the HMICFRS review findings with details on funding and timeframe for implementation as requested.
Summary of the government's response below — read the verbatim text to verify.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
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It is important that we learn the lessons from the most significant public disorder in more than a decade. The Government and police are now carefully considering the recommendations made by the Inspectorate as well as the recommendations made in the Committee’s own report. The Government’s Police Reform White Paper will set out how it intends to address the findings from the Inspectorate and the Committee, and the wider system reform needed in policing. This White Paper reflects the Government’s commitment to learning the lessons of the disorder, and will include proposals to strengthen Public Order Policing and enhance the longer-term cross-system response to violent disorder. PCCs must also, as the elected voice of the people, hold their Chief Constable to account for individual forces’ implementation of the recommendations in HMICFRS’ inspection report. Each PCC must also respond to HMICFRS’ report within 56 days of its publication.
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