Source · HMICFRS
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Northamptonshire Police
PEEL Force Inspection
3 recommendations
Recommendations
1
Completed
HMIC recommends that within 12 months the force should do the following: To improve the effectiveness of its investigations, it should: • make sure senior officers clearly and effectively oversee crime investigations and standards; • make sure all crimes are allocated quickly to investigators with the appropriate skills, accreditation and support. They will then be able to investigate them to a good standard, on time; • make sure it is fully compliant with the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime; • make sure it can retrieve digital evidence from mobile phones, computers and other electronic devices quickly enough to avoid delaying investigations; • make sure it uses bail and ‘released under investigation’ correctly to keep the public safe; and • make sure that people listed as ‘wanted’ on the Police National Computer are quickly located and arrested.
Northamptonshire Police
2
Completed
HMIC recommends that within 12 months the force should do the following: To make sure it can meet demand, it should develop plans to address its current capacity, capability and efficiency problems. It should: • change its operating model to remove inefficient practices; • create a central record of the skills available within the existing workforce; • reorganise the workforce to make sure officers have the skills needed to meet demand; and • carry out a thorough assessment of current and future demand, covering all elements of policing.
Northamptonshire Police
3
Completed
HMIC recommends that within 12 months the force should do the following:To improve its approach to protecting vulnerable people, it should: • improve call response and initial investigation for all vulnerable victims; • improve its response to missing and absent children by categorising information correctly, and regularly and actively supervise missing person investigations to properly safeguard victims; and • analyse information held on systems to better understand the nature and scale of vulnerability. It should then act on its findings relating to missing people, domestic abuse, human trafficking, modern slavery and child sexual exploitation.
Northamptonshire Police