Recommendation 15

The former SRO acknowledged that the Department had not achieved the sense of partnership with the police that it would have liked and that, following the first reset and finding things were even worse than previously realised, it was understandable that the police had lost confidence.27 He acknowledged that the Department had not got its relationship with the police into the right place. For example, there had never been a position where the Department and the police could together make decisions about trade-offs between programmes, and instead that “we sort of had to make those decisions ourselves in the Home Office, which is not what we would like to do”.28