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News article  —  16 May 2025

Law enforcement agencies have missed opportunities to investigate organised immigration crime, with intelligence gathering neither being effective nor robust enough.

News article  —  30 April 2024

We inspected the National Crime Agency in January 2023 and examined how well the agency helps police forces and other law enforcement bodies to identify corruption and tackle it. 

News article  —  20 June 2023

We inspected the National Crime Agency in July and August 2022 and examined how well the agency deals with vetting, anti-corruption and prejudicial and improper behaviour.

News article  —  5 April 2023

The police response to online child sexual abuse and exploitation is too often leaving vulnerable children at risk – and allowing offenders to escape justice.

News article  —  1 December 2022

Police forces are unable to keep pace with technology when it comes to digital forensics – and there is a backlog of more than 25,000 devices waiting to be examined.

News article  —  23 June 2022

Today we published a report on how effective the National Crime Agency is at protecting vulnerable people.

News article  —  10 March 2022

The police service has come a long way in the past ten years with many important successes, but major problems still need to be addressed.

News article  —  10 February 2022

HMICFRS has launched a consultation which welcomes views on our proposed policing inspection programme for the next three years. The consultation is open until Thursday 10 March 2022.

News article  —  21 July 2021

Today, we have published our policing inspection programme and framework for 2021/22.

News article  —  21 July 2021

The pandemic has intensified the vulnerability of certain people, and combined with failing public services, this has increased demand on the police, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary has said.