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Recommendation 35
35
Deferred
Paragraph: 79
Require additional departments and Home Office to respond to HMICFRS thematic reports.
Recommendation
HMICFRS states that, while it regularly makes recommendations to organisations other than police forces to improve public safety, only Police and Crime Commissioners are required to respond to its reports. We support HMICFRS’s call for further “additional departments and agencies” to be required to respond to its reports. This could include the Crown Prosecution Service and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales, for example. We recommend a statutory requirement be put in place for the Home Office to respond to recommendations made by HMICFRS in its thematic reports within the life of the current Parliament.
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The government's response entirely deflects the recommendation for a statutory requirement for other agencies and the Home Office to respond to HMICFRS reports by discussing funding for the Right Care Right Person (RCRP) program and broader investment in mental health services.
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
49. This recommendation aligns with the recommendations made in HMCI Cooke’s State of Policing Report, published on 6 June. 50. There is currently no legislative vehicle through which to legislate for increased powers for HMICFRS, and any changes to legislation would need extensive consultation due to divergent views within the sector. Therefore, the previous Home Secretary asked policing leaders to come together and agree a way forward to address the issues raised in HMCI Cooke’s report. 51. The sector met in September and agreed that the policing system would benefit if the inspectors of constabulary had expanded reach. Policing sector organisations have since committed to responding to recommendations. 52. We are still considering HMCI Cooke’s recommendations and will respond in due course.
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