HMICFRS
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) independently assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of police forces and fire and rescue services.
The Peel Assessment
In 2018, HMICFRS introduced its Integrated Police Effectiveness, Efficiency and Legitimacy (PEEL) Assessment Programme. It was an annual assessment of police forces in England and Wales. Forces were assessed on their effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (or pillars). They were judged as outstanding, good requires improvement or inadequate on each of the pillars based on inspection findings, analysis and Her Majesty’s Inspectors’ professional judgement across the year.
In 2020/21, HMICFRS published a new police inspection programme and framework, As part of this they have moved to a two-year inspection and reporting cycle. Under the new framework HMICFRS will grade each aspect of a force’s performance as: inadequate; requires improvement; adequate; good; or outstanding. Alongside the force’s performance report, HMICFRS will also publish a summary infographic of its assessment of the force’s performance against each inspection area.
Kent Police’s most recent performance report and infographic, as well the Commissioner’s response can be viewed below:
PEEL 2021/22: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy
The inspection assessed how good Kent Police is in ten areas of policing as well as how effective a service it gives to victims of crime. (28 April 2022)
Both the Police and Crime Commissioner and Kent Police Force respond to the findings. Their responses are below:
Responses to other published HMICFRS reports
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5 August 2021 |
A review of ‘Fraud: Time to choose’
In 2018, the Home Secretary commissioned HMICFRS to carry out a thematic inspection of fraud.
HMICFRS conducted the inspection between March and July 2018. In April 2019, HMICFRS published Fraud: Time to choose – An inspection of the police response to fraud. In that report, HMICFRS made 16 recommendations and identified 5 areas for improvement (AFIs).
HMICFRS revisited its previous inspection to see how the police service had responded to the recommendations and AFIs made in that report. |
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2 May 2019 |
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19
In 2018/19, HMICFRS adopted an integrated approach to their PEEL inspections.
Integrated PEEL Assessment combined into a single inspection the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy areas of PEEL. These areas were previously inspected separately each year. |
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2 April 2019 |
Fraud: Time to choose – An inspection of the police response to fraud
In 2018, the Home Secretary commissioned HMICFRS to carry out an inspection of the police response to fraud. HMICFRS inspected the effectiveness and efficiency of the police response to fraud, including online fraud.
This inspection which was commissioned by the Home Secretary took place between March and July 2018 and looked to assess whether: · law enforcement has a well-designed strategy for tackling fraud; · organisational structures provide the necessary capacity, capabilities and partnerships; and · victims of fraud receive a high-quality response. |
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15 January 2019 |
Crime Data Integrity re-inspection
In March 2017, HMICFRS conducted a crime data integrity inspection of Kent Police.
The report of this inspection was published in June 2017 and concluded that the Force’s crime-recording arrangements were not acceptable. As a result, the force was given an overall judgment of inadequate.
The 2017 report made a series of recommendations and areas for improvement aimed at improving crime recording in Kent. This re-inspection assessed the progress made since that report. |
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Force Management Statement
HMICFRS requires police forces to prepare and submit their own detailed self-assessments. These reports, called Force Management Statements, are centred around each force assessing its short to medium-term future demand and stating how that demand might be met or managed.
Kent Police has published abridged versions of its Force Management Statement for 2018 and its Force Management Statement for 2019.