Thursday 24 April 2014

PC JAMES PATRICK - LATEST DISGRACEFUL TREATMENT AT THE HANDS OF THE METROPOLITAN POLICE


PC James Patrick, the police whistle blower who exposed the manipulation of crime figures faces being put on a public register of disgraced officers, Channel 4 News can reveal.

The Metropolitan Police have accused James Patrick of gross misconduct because he appeared on a television and a radio programme to talk about senior officers' treatment of him without getting their permission first.

Should he be found guilty, he would be placed on the College of Policing's new "struck off list", which the body plans to make public.

According to both PC Patrick and his local MP Bernard Jenkin, who is also chair of the parliamentary committee that held the inquiry into crime figures, the move by the Met is an effort to blacken the whistleblower's name.

"What is the point? It seems massively vindictive," said PC Patrick.

Mr Jenkin agreed with PC Patrick's analysis that the force's allegations – which come less than three weeks before he is due to leave – represent an effort to place a dismissal for gross misconduct on his record.

"Speaking purely as his MP, I think he has been treated very unfairly," he said.

'Intimidation'

The public administration select committee chair added: "The police do not seem to have acknowledged the seriousness of what they sought to suppress and what he exposed. This is an indication of the police leadership in denial.

"They should have welcomed him back as someone who was vindicated and who could have helped them put right the issues he raised. They said they would meet with him, but they never have.
"I am sad about it because whistle blowers are, by definition, difficult people; otherwise they would be easier to intimidate. All the way through, the Met Police have tried to intimidate James Patrick for raising legitimate concerns. But they have lost and cannot acknowledge that they have lost."

The news comes two weeks after Channel 4 News revealed that PC Patrick was being forced to go without pay while fighting his employer at tribunal after the Met successfully argued that police officers did not qualify for the same financial compensation available to other people.

A document seen by Channel 4 News shows that PC Patrick was accused of gross misconduct on Monday after appearances on BBC programmes on 9 and 10 April.

In March, he announced he was to resign from the force, saying he had been left no choice because of senior officers' treatment of him after he raised his concerns.

He is due to leave on 9 May but, under measures introduced by Home Secretary Theresa May in February last year that were designed to stop officers retiring and resigning to avoid misconduct proceedings, Mr Patrick would still face the gross misconduct allegations and could be dismissed retrospectively.

What is the point? It seems massively vindictivePolice whistleblower James Patrick

The College of Policing said that its "struck off list", on which PC Patrick would be placed if found guilty, is currently only available to police forces. But the body said it plans to make it public, subject to legal deliberations.

A Met Police document sets out the allegations against PC Patrick. He is accused of having appeared on the BBC programme The One Show "without the appropriate authority". It also sets out an accusation that he gave in an interview to BBC Radio 5 "also in breach of the MPS Media Policy and direct instructions".

PC Patrick says that the One Show appearance was recorded before a letter warning him not to go ahead with it was sent to him.

As a result of his evidence to the select committee, both the Met commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and the police watchdog HM Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) head Tom Winsor were forced to admit that police crime figures were being manipulated. In response, the UK Statistics Authority removed the crime figures' gold standard "National Statistics" status.

James Patrick @J_amesp
Open Letter to Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe http://wp.me/p3jIOU-23
 
The MPs also demanded that HMIC open an investigation into the Met's treatment of PC Patrick, whom the Met tried to silence on at least three occasions, it was revealed earlier this month.

A spokesman for the Met Police said: "Can confirm PC James Patrick is being investigated for potential misconduct following allegations he failed to seek the appropriate authority prior to undertaking two media interviews in April 2014 as required by the MPS Media Policy. PC Patrick has been informed of this investigation.

"PC Patrick remains a serving police officer and is therefore held to the same standards as any other officer."

Over on James Patrick's site, he published an open letter to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe which is reprinted below:-

23rd April 2014
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
(Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis)
N.B. This is an open letter

Sir,

Following our impromptu conversation on LBC the other morning, (I called in after being alerted to the fact you were discussing me, while I was cuddling my children over breakfast), I am following up in writing as I said I probably would.

I thank you for your offer to consider meeting with me, which I said I would welcome, and arrangements for which I shall leave to you – my calendar is becoming largely clear very soon.

I hope, as you said in reply to my first question on LBC, that you are genuinely committed to changing the way that the MPS deals with whistle blowers in the future, and perhaps this letter – if read to the end – may further some understanding.

Having now listened back to the comments regarding my case earlier in your appearance, I feel it’s best that some facts are clarified – I appreciate that you are juggling a lot of shreds of information, so may have made the mistakes honestly.

1) You stated that, to paraphrase, what happened in the time before the PASC wasn’t whistleblowing. This is, in part, currently a matter before the Tribunal, and the one which I refused to discuss with you on air. Perhaps you should talk about this further with Legal Services, to clarify it for future reference: there appears to be some breakdown in communication. I also know, because I served the Directorate of Professional Standards with the papers in November last year, that the MPS is fully aware of the history of my whistleblowing since 2009, which is not a matter before the Tribunal (other than as background). Again, perhaps, a conversation on that may assist. In the alternative, my written submissions to the Public Administration Select Committee give an outline of the history which you may find helpful, as may the last pages of the document entitled ‘The London Policing Model’ which I sent to you first in December 2011, and then again (at your request) after I contacted you regarding it in October 2013.

2) You stated that, in response to my PASC evidence in November 2013, you had called in Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary to vet the crime data. Was this not part of the inspection programme agreed and ordered by Parliament in or around June 2013? And wasn’t the Mayor’s Office audit commissioned even earlier in the year by the Deputy Mayor? If that is the case, perhaps a clearer use of wording may avoid any future confusion for people less closely following the topic. In any case, I have met with the CIHMIC and expressed my concerns in person – I personally found him very impressive and open minded. I also note that you are under the impression that I was contacted after writing to you, (I was offering to meet after your appearance at the PASC, during which you stated an internal inquiry would contact me in due course). I was, in March, offered a ‘debrief’, the reason I gave a long notice period. I have this morning been informed that this will take place on the 30th of April, which I have accepted, but: a debrief is not the same as an inquiry, or the treatment of someone who reports wrongdoing in line with MPS policy, as you well know.

3) You stated, emphatically some might say, that I had not been hounded from my job: this is currently a matter before the Tribunal, and one which I refused to discuss on air. Perhaps, again, you should talk this through with Legal Services.

4) You stated that the MPS did not ‘look’ at my Gross Misconduct case, in fact referring it outside and having it externally chaired. I found this statement quite shocking. I first asked for the matter to be externally referred in 2012 and again in 2013 but this was declined; the DPS then opposed an application for the hearing panel to be externally constituted, due to a risk of bias, in November 2013. Thankfully my submission prevailed despite the representations of the MPS to keep things ‘in house’. I was notified in February 2014 that, following an external review, the case had been downgraded to Misconduct, then found that the DPS had appointed an MPS Inspector to chair the meeting. Once again the already decided bias issue had to be raised and then, and only then, a Chief Inspector from the City of London Police was appointed. I am not sure whether you were poorly briefed, but the statement made was outrageously misleading.

5) Along with the Press Office, you have stated that I have received a final written warning. Again things are not so clear cut. Firstly, the decision has been immediately appealed on the grounds of lack of evidence and perverse reasoning (to keep it short-hand), and the arrangements for this appeal, I can only assume, are being properly dealt with. Secondly, and most gravely: I have not received a final written warning. As the DPS are well aware, the regulations require service of the written notices within five days. The meeting took place on the 2nd of April 2014 and I put the DPS on written notice, on the 18th of April, that they have failed to comply with the regulations by not serving these notices. This is clearly unacceptable and also makes the statement “received a written warning”, at best, spurious.

Regrettably, I must raise one further issue, which has landed on me yesterday.

Having agreed to an earlier departure date than the 6th of June, namely the 9th of May, with payment in lieu of the remaining notice, I have today been sent a notice stating that I am being investigated for ‘Gross Misconduct’ on the following grounds:

“On 9th April 2014 you breached the MPS Media Policy and direct instructions provided to you by appearing on the BBC programme ‘The One Show’ without the appropriate authority.

You also participated in a radio interview with BBC Radio 5 on the 10th April 2014 without the appropriate authority also in breach of the MPS Media Policy and direct instructions”.

I have not found a hard copy of a letter from Temporary Detective Superintendent Simon Laurence stating that the policy existed and should be complied with, dated the 7th of April. Several others were however among a stack sent to my home address by recorded delivery and found on about the 16th of April, after I had been at my sister’s since the 9th, with my family.

It appears the letter in question was sent by email but, on the 7th of April, I was fully focused, as I am sure you can imagine, on preparing to act for myself at the initial Tribunal hearing the following day (Tuesday the 8th).

I can’t find any written acknowledgement of receipt, by me to the Met, regarding emails sent to me (by the Met), until the 11th of April. If it helps, I sent five emails on the 7th of April, four of which were to the same person, and none of whom have anything to do with the Met; additionally there are no emails to the Met at all on the 7th, 8th or 9th. On the 10th I emailed regarding welfare at 07.11, that being it until lunchtime the next day.

In any case, the One Show was pre-recorded at the end of the week before this letter appears to have been sent. As regards Radio 5, it was pre-recorded on the 10th of April and the interview was broadcast on Friday the 11th of April 2014, after the conclusion of which I did receive a copy of a letter by email, stating the matter had been referred to the DPS. I tweeted about a threat of further discipline at 12.32 on the 11th April – as I normally do with any significant developments.

I replied to the Met by email at that time stating:
“I look forward to being pursued with further malice and vigour”

This is becoming a little bit like the detention scene in The Breakfast Club.

I won’t ask you about the freedom of expression, about what it safeguards, nor about the other freedoms enshrined in law – mine have only just ceased to be restricted; nor will I ask you to look up legislation, like Section 43J of the Employment Rights Act 1996. All I would ask is: who in the Met would authorise me to speak out about my side of the story? (That’s rhetorical, by the way).

A reasonable person might well ask questions about the motivation of this new action. Another reasonable person might simply see it is as vindictive. Another might see that you could make a finding in my absence, after I’ve left, and have me added to the College of Policing struck off list – a permanent tarnish for all future employment.

Someone like my wife, who has been on the receiving end of the Met for a long time now, might burst into tears and be scared witless of what else you will do.

Personally, I am just tired and, while I will continue to fight my battles in the Tribunal, I just want the Met to leave my family and I alone: you have done enough to us. More than enough. As anyone who saw the One Show would know, the effect on my family has already been devastating and I have walked away from a job I love, and have loved, for the best part of a decade.

Lastly, I want you to know that I am not scared of you, nor the Met, and because I am not, I will ask you this: have you ever picked a cat up by the tail?

As Mark Twain said, someone who does learns something he can learn in no other way.

Let me walk away in peace.
Yours faithfully,
James Patrick
By Email

Thin Blue Line Comment in response to James on his site:-

And so it continues.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe must surely have been instrumental or at least made aware that further Gross Misconduct matters were being considered.

“On 9th April 2014 you breached the MPS Media Policy and direct instructions provided to you by appearing on the BBC programme ‘The One Show’ without the appropriate authority.

You also participated in a radio interview with BBC Radio 5 on the 10th April 2014 without the appropriate authority also in breach of the MPS Media Policy and direct instructions”.

He surely cannot claim he knew nothing of the new proceedings. As such, surely it was improper of him to permit the LBC conversation to proceed as he was aiding and abetting the alleged breach? Agent Provocateur springs to mind. (a person employed to induce others to break the law so that they can be convicted).

The comedy of errors continues, and it would be a comedy if it wasn’t so vindictive, unjust and a blatant immoral attempt to silence you once and for all.

What a joke then, to read CC Nick Gargan’s piece in the Guardian on Tuesday 22 April
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/22/police-leadership-criticism-politicians-undermining-service?CMP=twt_gu

To paste the first few paragraphs of the article:-

Gratuitous criticism will not help the police to improve

 Politicians’ sweeping condemnation of police leadership may bring short-term political gain, but it will undermine the future of the service.

“I was stung by the words of Bernard Jenkin MP, chair of the public administration select committee at the launch of its police crime statistics report earlier this month. “Poor data integrity reflects the poor quality of leadership within the police”, he said. Not “the poor quality of some leadership,” nor even “the poor quality of leadership of some within the police”. Instead Jenkin dismissed police leadership at a stroke. It has become the height of fashion to dismiss police leadership. And the place where it is most fashionable to do so seems to be Westminster, and Whitehall”.

Nick may well be one of the “Good Guys”, but sadly there are all too many examples of ACPO ranks whose conduct and attitude is well deserving of the criticism.

Your case James is a perfect example of what is wrong with policing today. A lack of probity, honesty and moral compass, replaced with greed, pernicious deception and downright corrupt behaviour by high ranking officers who should be setting exemplary standards.

When looking for reasons why public confidence in policing has plummeted, look no further than the ACPO ranks. Rank and file officers are forced to compromise their professional integrity carrying out ACPO and SMT strategies that are not in the public interest.

And when someone dares to blow the whistle with the truth, look at how they form a cordon of defensive and attacking strategy. It reminds me of Custers last stand, with the police Chiefs formed in a circle protecting their jobs, pensions and fiefdoms with their obfuscation, denial and deceit. We all now how that one ended up.

My continued best wishes to you and your family James.

Kind regards
Steve Bennett
Retired West Midlands Officer
Author of the Thin Blue Line UK Blog
http:\\thinbluelineuk.blogspot.com

Thursday 17 April 2014

HEAR PC JAMES PATRICK CONFRONTING SIR BERNARD HOGAN-HOWE, THE MET COMMISSIONER ON LBC

This is the moment that PC James Patrick, a police whistleblower, who was forced to resign after raising doubts about crime figures, called LBC to confront the Met Police Commissioner.

                                                James' call to Sir Bernard, appears 20 minutes into the video.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/watch-met-police-chief-live-on-lbc-88983

PC James Patrick had said crime figures were manipulated and sexual offences were being under-reported by 22-25%.

Last month, PC Patrick left the force after being subjected to disciplinary proceedings.
He called Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe on his LBC phone-in to ask if the Met were planning to overhaul their procedures on whistleblowers to avoid what he had to go through.

Sir Bernard responded: "We're always prepared to do that. Each case, as you will know sadly though your experience is not straightforward, so of course we're always prepared to look at that and if there's anything you can offer us in that, we'll try to learn.

"It's a difficult balance to strike."

Speaking about his resignation, Mr Patrick told the Commissioner: "I've had no choice, have I boss? "I felt very, very let down in particular by the senior levels of the Met."

Sir Bernard replied: "First of all, I'm sorry about your experience, because I'm sure whatever the rights and wrongs, you won't have enjoyed what you have gone through, nor your family.

"Secondly, I'm certainly happy to consider meeting if you would want to, now that the misconduct process is out of the way.

"And I hope you'd be prepared to accept as well that, although you've got a very firm view about what you've seen and your experience, I have asked for some independent advice to find out whether your allegations are endemic or in fact your experience was a one-off."

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner did admit that mistakes are made in the force's crime figures, adding: "None of our figures are perfect. We know that. We know that not all crime is reported. In terms of rape, it is thought that 85% of rape is never even reported, let alone recorded. The stats never tell us everything and errors are made."

Sunday 13 April 2014

Police Constable James Patrick on BBC The One Show





With thanks to Dave Hasney over at the Bankside Babble for this one. James' story and the disgraceful treatment and bullying he has received at the hands of the Metropolitan Police, following his decision to blow the whistle on the widespread manipulation and fiddling of crime statistics.



We are happy to re blog this to provide our support and thanks to James for his courageous efforts.



Not over by a long chalk this one, and let's hope we finally start to see some probity return to police recorded crime.



Steve Bennett



Retired West Midlands Police Officer

Wednesday 9 April 2014

CAUGHT RED HANDED! PASC COMMITTEE CONCLUDES POLICE RECORDED CRIME CANNOT BE TRUSTED

“Poor data integrity reflects the poor quality of leadership"

The House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) have today published their report into allegations of police mis-recording of crime statistics. (The report - Caught Red-Handed: Why We Can’t Count on Police Recorded Crime Statistics - can be viewed here
Bernard Jenkin MP, Chair of the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) says: “Poor data integrity reflects the poor quality of leadership within the police.  Their compliance with the core values of policing, including accountability, honesty and integrity, will determine whether the proper quality of Police Recorded Crime data can be restored.”

The PASC report, Caught Redhanded: Why we can’t rely on Police Recorded Crime, published today, Wednesday 9th April 2014, says:

  • There is strong evidence that the police under-record crime, particularly sexual crimes such as rape in many police areas.
  • This is due to “lax compliance with the agreed national standard of victim-focussed crime recording.”
  • As a result of PASC’s inquiry, the UK Statistics Authority has already stripped Police Recorded Crime data of the quality kite mark, “National Statistics”.
  • The Home Office, the Office of National Statistics and the UK Statistics Authority have all been “far too passive”.
  • Numerical targets drive perverse incentives to mis-record crime.
  • Associated “attitudes and behaviour... have become ingrained, including within senior police leadership” raising “broader concerns about policing values”.
  • This presents officers with “a conflict between achievement of targets and core policing values.”
  • PASC “deprecate the use of targets in the strongest possible terms” and accuses the police of adopting a “flawed leadership model, contrary to the policing Code of Ethics.”

The PASC report recommends:

  • The Home Office should do more to discourage use of targets.
  • The Home Office must take responsibility and accept accountability for the quality of Police Recorded Crime Statistics.
  • Senior police leaders must emphasise data integrity and accuracy, not targets.
  • They should place new emphasis on values and ethics, especially in the Metropolitan Police.
  • The Home Office should “clarify the route open to police whistleblowers” and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the Constabulary (HMIC) should investigate the treatment of key PASC witness police whistleblower PC James Patrick.
  • PASC recommends that “the Committee on Standards in Public Life conducts a wide-ranging inquiry into the police’s compliance with the new Code of Ethics; in particular the role of leadership in promoting and sustaining these values".

 
 
Bernard Jenkin MP, Chair of the Committee, said:
“The most depressing part of this inquiry is the way that the Metropolitan Police appear to have treated my constituent, PC James Patrick. He says he has been forced to resign from the Metropolitan.  Acting as a whistleblower, he tried to highlight serious concerns about the validity of crime statistics, and the target culture.  Most police forces are still in denial about the damage targets cause, both to data integrity and to standards of behaviour. 
"We are indebted to PC Patrick for his courage in speaking out, in fulfilment of his duty to the highest standards of public service, despite intense pressures to the contrary. The new police code of ethics places a duty on officers to report misconduct among their peers:  the systems enabling police officers to do this must be made much clearer and more accessible, and the Home Office must clarify the route open to police whistleblowers who have exhausted internal channels within their police forces.
“We asked the Home Office for this clarification before we finalised our report, but they replied too late.  We have published their response on our website now. We are calling for HMIC to investigate the Metropolitan Police Service in respect of the treatment of PC Patrick. We have grave doubts that the Metropolitan Police Service has treated PC Patrick fairly or with respect and care.
“Crime statistics are central to our understanding of the nature and prevalence of crime in England and Wales. They provide crucial information for the police which helps them to decide how to deploy their manpower resources. Lax supervision of recorded crime data risks reducing the police’s effectiveness in their core role of protecting the public and preventing crime.”
Caught red-handed: Why we can't count on Police Recorded Crime statistics
Summary
Crime statistics published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are central to our understanding of the nature and prevalence of crime in England and Wales. They providecrucial information for the police which helps them to decide how to deploy their manpower resources. Lax supervision of recorded crime data risks reducing the police's effectiveness in their core role of protecting the public and preventing crime.
Measurement of crime is based on two main statistical sources: (i) the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW, formerly the British Crime Survey) and (ii) Police Recorded Crime (PRC). The CSEW and PRC provide strong evidence that the overall volume of crime has been falling. However, there is an accumulation of substantial and credible evidence indicating that the PRC data do not represent a full and accurate account of crime in England and Wales. Of most importance, we have strong evidence that PRC under-records crime, and therefore the rate of decrease in crime may be exaggerated, and this is due to lax police compliance with the agreed national standard of victim-focussed crime recording.
As a result of PASC's inquiry and the evidence we have exposed, the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) decided in January 2014 to strip PRC data of its designation as National Statistics. We conclude that the Home Office, ONS and UKSA have been far too passive in the face of concerns raised about PRC; they have repeatedly missed opportunities to ensure the integrity and quality of PRC data.
The cessation of regular external audit of police force crime recording in 2007 was a mistake. We recommend the re-instatement of annual audits of crime recording practices.
HM Inspectorate of Constabulary's inspection in 2013 into the Kent Police found clear evidence that targets are detrimental to the integrity of crime data. Numerical targets for individual police officers and police forces as a whole, based on PRC data, and set by senior police officers or Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), drive perverse incentives to misrecord crime, tend to affect attitudes and erode data quality. Some PCCs consider the perverse incentives created by targets to be so serious that they have dropped all targets. We applaud them. The attitudes and behaviour which lead to the misrecording of crime have become ingrained, including within senior leadership. This leads to the subordination of data integrity to target-chasing. This can present officers with a conflict between achievement of targets and core policing values.
We deprecate the use of targets in the strongest possible terms. The Home Office, which claims credit for abolishing national numerical targets, should also be discouraging the use of such targets. The Home Office must also take responsibility and accept accountability for the quality of PRC statistics. Senior police leaders must ensure that emphasis is placed on data integrity and accuracy, not on the achievement of targets. We regard such practice as a flawed leadership model, contrary to the policing Code of Ethics. The quality of leadership within the police, and its compliance with the core values of policing, including accountability, honesty and integrity, will determine whether the proper quality of PRC data can be restored. We are convinced that this requires leadership in many police forces to place new emphasis on values and ethics, especially in the Metropolitan Police Service. We recommend that the Committee on Standards in Public Life conducts a wide-ranging inquiry into the police's compliance with the new Code of Ethics; in particular the role of leadership in promoting and sustaining these values in the face of all the other pressures on the force.
Our written evidence to the committee can be seen here.

OUR COMMENT

This report from the respected cross party committee is most welcome. It strongly supports the main thrust of what we have said from these pages for a number of years, supported by a wealth of evidence and detailed reports.
The service has faced considerable criticism over recent years, much of it justified, some of it not. Policing is vital to our community and so is the trust we place in our forces to tell us the truth. We hope that this sends out the positive signal to the Leadership of the service that they cannot continue to be a law unto themselves, behaving in an immoral, crooked and yes, even corrupt manner, deceiving the public to the extent that crime is declining and detections are being maintained.
What is truly disappointing is that so many Chief and Senior Officers have lied, obfuscated and cheated regarding the probity of recorded crime, many of them benefitting financially through target bonus payments, with career promotions and political advancement on the back of the web of deceit and lies that has been spun. It seems that none of these officers will ever be brought to account for their corrupt and scurrilous pernicious deceptions they have perpetrated or at the very least, turned a blind eye to.
The next challenge the service must face head on is the equally corrupt detections data. Again from these pages and in concert with others who share our views, we have espoused that detection performance has been massively inflated, deceiving the public into believing that the service is more effective at clearing crime than it actually is. This fools and serves no one, least of all the service itself. Whilst the politicians choose to believe the spin, the service will never receive the support and fiscal backing it needs to improve the true effectiveness of crime detection.
Steve
 
Steve Bennett
Retired West Midlands Police Officer

ACPO Response : Chief Constables need and want accurate crime data

The Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) review of recorded crime finds the vast majority of police officers joined the police in order to serve as dedicated and courageous professionals, motivated by their vocation to protect the public. However, the service has not always met the data quality the public expects

Speaking on behalf of the National Policing Performance Management Business Area, Deputy Chief Constable Francis Habgood said:
“Chief constables need and want accurate crime data so that they can understand the threats to our communities and direct our resources effectively to cut crime and protect those we serve. It is also vital that the public trust that if they are victim of crime it will be recorded accurately, investigated fully and that police will take appropriate action. Public confidence, after increasing in recent years, remains stable but we must always to strive to meet the highest standards to ensure that trust is deserved.
“Nobody joins the police service with the intention of recording crime inaccurately. As the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) finds, the vast majority of police officers joined the police in order to serve as dedicated and courageous professionals, motivated by their vocation to protect the public. However, the service has not always met the data quality the public expects.
“The report raises concerns about the use of numerical targets relating to crime reduction but recognises that there has been a gradual shift towards a range of measures to monitor performance against priorities. Performance management has an important part to play in achieving local priorities and the intelligent use of targets can support police activity, if focused correctly on victim outcomes.
“Working with Police and Crime Commissioners, chief constables have an important role to play in building a culture of ethical crime reporting that complements the service’s wider values, laid out in the draft Code of Ethics developed by the College of Policing. We will continue to work hard to achieve greater consistency. and accuracy across the country.”
 




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