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PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Cleveland Police

PEEL Force Inspection 30 recommendations
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Recommendations

30
1 Superseded The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • it promptly attends incidents involving vulnerable people, and any regrading of incidents is based on a structured and recorded risk assessment with supervisory oversight; Cleveland Police
2 Completed The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • it safeguards all victims of domestic abuse, through the effective completion of a structured risk assessment, adequately supervising any changes to the initial assessment; Cleveland Police
3 Completed The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • it supplies people with the information they need and are entitled to under the provisions of Clare’s Law and Sarah’s Law. Cleveland Police
4 Completed The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • officers and staff can identify vulnerable people and repeat victims effectively; Cleveland Police
5 Completed The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • referrals for ongoing safeguarding are made at the appropriate time; Cleveland Police
6 Completed The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • the cumulative effect of numerous incidents involving the same victim or household is properly risk assessed, considered and responded to; Cleveland Police
7 Completed The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • there are effective processes in place for catching criminals which are subject to supervision and scrutiny, and it uses the available legal powers to prevent re-offending; and Cleveland Police
8 Completed The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • there is sufficient supervision of domestic abuse cases assessed as having a standard level of risk; Cleveland Police
9 Superseded The force should immediately take steps to improve its communication and engagement with the public of Cleveland. This should include informing them of changes to policing services, communicating the action it has taken to address force priorities, and the provision of community and personal safety advice. Cleveland Police
10 Completed The force should immediately take steps to improve its understanding of local communities, including those who are less likely to complain or those who engage less with the police. Cleveland Police
11 Completed The force should immediately take steps to: • understand what services its communities want and how the force's plans and its operating model reflect these expectations; Cleveland Police
12 Completed The force should immediately take steps to: • engage the public in the scrutiny of its data and processes, including the use of force and stop and search, to help it improve. This may be through an independent advisory group or other means. It should ensure that these people have the relevant training, and are provided with sufficient data and analysis for them to scrutinise and challenge in a constructive way. Cleveland Police
13 Superseded The force should immediately: • carry out a comprehensive assessment of current and potential future demand across all operational areas to inform the force’s operating model. This should include latent demand, and the demand generated by internal processes; Cleveland Police
14 Superseded The force should immediately: • develop co-ordinated financial and workforce plans based on demand, which should be integrated into the force's strategic planning cycle. Cleveland Police
15 Completed The force should immediately:• provide senior leaders with the relevant information, support and skills to inform their understanding of demand; and Cleveland Police
16 Completed The force should take immediate action to: • create a culture where officers and staff are honest and take responsibility for their work and action taken; Cleveland Police
17 Completed The force should take immediate action to: • embed the Code of Ethics principles and behaviours within the organisation; Cleveland Police
18 Completed The force should take immediate action to: • ensure there is a process for the workforce to discuss ethical dilemmas regularly and understand decisions made by the force about fairness that also influence policy and practice. Cleveland Police
19 Completed The force should take immediate action to: • hold the entire workforce to account for inappropriate behaviour and poor performance; Cleveland Police
20 Superseded The force should take immediate steps to: • provide strategic direction and co-ordination of all prevention activity; Cleveland Police
21 Completed The force should take immediate steps to:• ensure officers and staff working within neighbourhood teams understand the needs of local communities, their priorities, and the threats they face; and Cleveland Police
22 Superseded The force should take immediate steps to:• ensure there are the right resources, in the right place, to carry out structured problem-solving and prevention activity aligned to its priorities; Cleveland Police
23 Superseded The force should take immediate steps to:• monitor the effectiveness of its crime prevention activity, evaluating and sharing effective practice both internally and with other organisations. Cleveland Police
24 Completed The force should: • communicate with the workforce, so they have a clear understanding of what is happening in the force; Cleveland Police
25 Completed The force should: • ensure that promotion processes are transparent, fair and perceived as such by the workforce. Cleveland Police
26 Completed The force should: • fairly and consistently identify those with the potential to become senior leaders and support them to gain the skills for future leadership role; Cleveland Police
27 Completed the force should: • improve the timeliness of its grievance handling processes; Cleveland Police
28 Completed The force should: • involve the workforce in decision making; listening to their feedback, acting on it, and communicating action taken; Cleveland Police
29 Completed The force should: • understand the performance of its workforce, support their development, and deal with poor performance fairly and consistently; Cleveland Police
30 Completed The force should: • understand the risks and threats to the wellbeing of its workforce and use this to inform the actions it takes; Cleveland Police