Recommendation 10

We agree that despite the best efforts of policing leaders, shortcomings in national policing structures inhibited the response to the disorder and national mobilisation came too late. The disorder highlighted deficiencies that also affect business-as-usual policing, such as a lack of reliable national data. We welcome the Government’s commitment to reforming the national policing landscape, and to consulting with police leaders to define it. However, there are opportunities beyond the areas the Government has already outlined, for example in tech adoption, workforce planning and investigations. (Conclusion, Paragraph 43)