MPS response to HMIC recommendations and Committee role

Report: 9
Date: 19 September 2000
By: Commissioner

Summary

This paper is a status report from the MPS showing the current position on the implementation of each recommendation in the (four) relevant HMIC inspection reports to which the MPS has responded over the past two years.

A. Supporting information

Introduction

1. Prior to the establishment of an Inspection Liaison Unit (ILU) in June 1999 - as part of a corporate Inspection and Review Framework - the MPS did not (nor was it required to) give a detailed corporate response to HMIC reports other than those resulting from inspections of the MPS itself.

2. This paper, therefore, deals with one national thematic report, ‘Police Integrity’, and three MPS-specific reports, ‘Specialist Operations’, ‘Community Safety & Partnerships’ and ‘Policing London - Winning Consent’.

3. The Committee will wish to note that the ILU now not only produces an initial corporate response to all HMIC national thematic and MPS-specific reports but also provides periodic updates. It is assumed that Members of the Committee have had sight of the most recent responses in each case.

Police integrity

4. The report following this national thematic inspection was published in June 1999. A full MPS corporate response was provided on 10 March 2000 and is now updated by the chart at Appendix A.

MPS: specialist operations

5. This report covered the second phase of HMIC’s inspection of SO Department, the first having taken place in 1996. Following publication in February 1999, an initial corporate response was provided on 12 November 1999 followed by full updates on 10 February and 22 May 2000. The current position is shown in the chart at Appendix B.

MPS: community safety & partnerships

6. Following the publication of this report, an initial response was prepared in time for the Commissioner’s meeting with the Home Secretary on 5 July 1999. Subsequently, the MPC requested that the response be presented in the same format as other responses and the opportunity was taken to provide a fully updated response, in the MPS corporate style, in January 2000. The current position is shown in the chart at Appendix C.

Policing London - ‘Winning Consent’

7. In February 1999 the Home Secretary directed HMIC to conduct this inspection as a direct result of Recommendation 4 in the report by Sir William Macpherson into matters arising from the death of Stephen Lawrence. HMIC’s report was published in January 2000 and comprised two parts; Part I - Community and Race Relations (Recommendations 1 - 29) and Part II - Murder Investigation (Recommendations 30 - 41).

8. Substantial progress on many of the issues raised had already been made prior to publication and this was reflected in a speedily completed initial response to the Home Secretary on 2 February 2000. The full, and revised, corporate response was produced on 5 May 2000; this version was subsequently updated on 13 June, prior to publication, at the request of the MPC.

9. An updated response to Part I - Community and Race Relations was produced on 25 July 2000 to assist HMIC in their visit to the MPS as part of the forthcoming inspection ‘Winning the Race III’. The current position is reflected at Appendix D. Updates to the action taken in respect of the recommendations in Part II - Murder Investigation are currently being considered and a fully updated response will be produced by the end of September. The current position is reflected at Appendix E.

Recent HMIC reports

10. At the end of July 2000, HMIC published simultaneously three major reports:

• Calling Time on Crime
• On the Record
• Under the Microscope.

Work has commenced on formulating a corporate response to each of these in accordance with a timetable agreed between the MPS and the MPA.

B. Recommendations

1. Members are asked to note the contents of the update reports.

C. Financial implications

There are no direct financial implications arising from this report

D. Review arrangements

This is the first ‘status report’ produced by the MPS for the information of the MPA. The Committee will wish to consider the format and frequency of such reports in the future.

E. Background papers

The following is a statutory list of background papers (under the Local Government Act 1972 S.100 D) which disclose facts or matters on which the report is based and which have been relied on to a material extent in preparing this report. They are available on request to either the contact officer listed above or to the Clerk to the Police Authority at the address indicated on the agenda.

• HMIC report - Calling time on crime
• HMIC report - On the record
• HMIC report - Under the microscope

F. Contact details

The authors of this report are Gordon Sharp and Melanie Homer of the MPS Inspectorate ILU.

For information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18

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