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Recommendation 17

17 Deferred Paragraph: 47

PCCs should provide annual follow-up comments on HMICFRS recommendations concerning their forces

Conclusion
We support HMICFRS’s call for Police and Crime Commissioners to be required to provide follow-up comments, at least annually, where HMICFRS have not yet confirmed that recommendations pertaining to them and their local force have been sufficiently addressed. We will return to matters of local accountability in our inquiry into Police and Crime Commissioners.
Government Response Summary
The government states that responsibility for collecting and publishing data on complainants, including protected characteristics, sits with the IOPC, which already publishes annual statistics and quarterly bulletins, thus deflecting from the recommendation about PCCs providing follow-up comments to HMICFRS.
Paragraph Reference: 47
Government Response Deferred
HM Government Deferred
42. Responsibility for collecting and publishing data on complainants sits with the IOPC. 43. The policing sector recognises the importance of recording data regarding protected characteristics of complaints and possible areas of disproportionality. Data on the protected characteristics of complainants, including ethnicity, is published by the IOPC as part of its annual statistics publication. The IOPC also produces quarterly bulletins for all police forces.