Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 10
10
Deferred
National policing structures inhibited disorder response and created business-as-usual deficiencies.
Conclusion
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)
Government response summary AI-generated
The government acknowledges limitations in policing systems and states that an upcoming Home Office White Paper on police reform will cover issues including technology, the future workforce, and system improvements, thereby deferring specific actions.
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Government Response
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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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