Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) is inspecting
the crime data integrity of every police force in England and
Wales, as part of a rolling inspection.
On Thursday 9 February the reports for Avon and
Somerset Constabulary, Devon and Cornwall
Police, Merseyside
Police and Northumbria
Policewill be published.
These are now available under
embargo (press releases are attached to this
email):
Please note: These reports are only available as ‘digital
reports’ - the table below has links to
each report and the specific password for each.
See the ‘Review of methodology’ section below for detail
regarding Greater Manchester Police, Staffordshire Police and
Sussex Police (all previously published in August 2016).
Background
This rolling programme of inspections was announced by HMCIC Sir
Tom Winsor, in a letter to chief constables in November 2015.
This can be found on our website, along with our previous crime
data integrity inspection reports.
As part of this inspection programme, HMIC may carry out either a
post inspection review, or a full follow-up inspection in
specific forces, depending on how they have performed.
Review of methodology
In January 2017, HMIC carried out a review of our crime data
integrity inspection rolling programme. HMIC introduced two
changes to the way in which an overall graded judgment is
determined:
· a slight lowering and broadening of the recording rates for
each of the four possible graded judgments; and
· to enable separate graded judgments to be applied to the
statistical and non-statistical elements of this inspection, the
introduction of three graded questions that are based around the
16 inspection criteria, and each of which contribute to the
overall graded judgment.
HMIC has applied this updated approach to our assessment of the
published inspection findings for Greater Manchester Police,
Staffordshire Police and Sussex Police (previously published
August 2016). While the contents of these published reports
remain entirely valid, this has resulted in Staffordshire Police
being re-graded from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘good’. The grade
for Greater Manchester Police remains as ‘inadequate’. The grade
for Sussex Police remains as ‘good’.
