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Recommendation 15
15
Deferred
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Evaluate impact of police misconduct changes and improve disproportionality data collection
Recommendation
We recommend the Home Office evaluate the impact of regulatory and other changes to policing misconduct and disciplinary processes 12 months after implementation. The evaluation should include consideration of the proportion of cases resulting in a finding of gross misconduct, changes in dismissal rates, the speed of misconduct cases, challenges against decisions and disproportionality in dismissal outcomes. We support in principle the recommendations made following the Home Office’s own review, that “the Government, with the policing sector, [ … ] consider the way data is reported, where there are possible gaps, and how to improve collection to enable more meaningful data across England and Wales”, and that the Home Office carry out multi-variate analysis to “identify any disproportionality related to intersectional characteristics.” We recommend these considerations and analysis commence immediately and invite the Home Office to set out its timetable for completion in its response to our report.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government states that an independent review of the IOPC was commissioned in March 2023, and they will await its findings before considering wider implications or committing to the requested evaluation and data analysis.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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20. It is right that we consider the impact of changes to the misconduct, vetting and performance systems. We anticipate that it could take some time for a sufficient number of cases, commenced under any new regulations, to filter through the system to enable analysis to be conducted. 21. However, the Home Office does now publish standalone statistics annually on police misconduct and criminal proceedings. 22. The Home Office remains committed to working with the policing sector to better understand why disparities exist within the dismissals system. This includes better understanding the data, where collecting and reporting the data is vital to ensure an evidenced based approach to any mitigations taken, as well as reassuring the public of the fairness of the dismissals system. This work is ongoing across the policing sector.
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