Source · HMICFRS
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – West Mercia Police
PEEL Force Inspection
10 recommendations
Recommendations
1
Completed
HMIC recommends that the force should immediately: conduct a review of officers’ capabilities and capacity to manage their investigative workload, to better understand investigative demand and the pressures placed upon them; and
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2
Completed
HMIC recommends that the force should immediately: conduct a review, involving its partners, of the approach to vulnerability to better safeguard vulnerable people.
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3
Superseded
HMIC recommends that the force should immediately: expand the skills project work to include an assessment of all skills, not only operational, including potential future skills requirements. This assessment should inform workforce plans;
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4
Completed
HMIC recommends that the force should immediately:agree arrangements with Warwickshire Police to secure a smooth transition to its future operating model, ensuring no disruption to public services; and
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5
Completed
HMIC recommends that the force should immediately:clearly define its new operating model, ensuring all operational and support services are affordable and fit to protect the communities of West Mercia;
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6
Completed
HMIC recommends that the force should immediately:improve its arrangements both to consult with the public about business planning and to feed back on changes made to service delivery as a result of such consultation.
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7
Completed
HMIC recommends that within six months the force should: ensure regular and active supervision of the quality and progress of investigations. This supervision should be properly recorded;
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8
Completed
HMIC recommends that within six months the force should: improve how it responds to reports of crimes, how it then allocates them, ensuring it allocates investigations to appropriately trained and supported officers, and that it reviews this allocation appropriately throughout the investigation;
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9
Completed
HMIC recommends that within six months the force should: introduce consistent processes to effectively manage the risk posed by suspects who are under investigation but have not yet been arrested or circulated as wanted on PNC; and
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10
Completed
HMIC recommends that within six months the force should: introduce effective arrangements to ensure it complies fully with its disclosure obligations.
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