Source · Select Committees · Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 6
6
Accepted
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Safe spaces and skilled supervisors essential for improving policing culture and raising concerns
Conclusion
Improving policing culture means creating a safe space for personnel to raise concerns. All team members, especially supervisors, should have the skills and resources needed to nurture positive team cultures and support those coming forward with concerns.
Government Response Summary
The government highlights that HMICFRS recommended the NPCC define 'prejudicial and improper behaviour' and that the NPCC published updated guidance in June 2023 clarifying the incompatibility of using sex workers with a police role.
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Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
16. HMICFRS’s vetting, misogyny and counter-corruption inspection (Nov 2022) recommended that the NPCC, in consultation with the College of Policing and IOPC, should define ‘prejudicial and improper behaviour’. 17. In June 2023, the NPCC published its updated ‘Sex Work National Police Guidance’. That guidance makes clear that the use of sex workers is incompatible with the role of a police officer or staff member because of the obvious and significant risk that it undermines public trust.