We agree with HMIC that the role of police leaders continues to be critical in working to build a culture of honesty and integrity throughout their forces

ACPO President Sir Hugh Orde said:

“HMIC’s annual assessment summarises the complex challenges that policing must grapple with: how to find further efficiencies and savings within constrained budgets, how to protect the public against national and international threats across force boundaries and how to optimise consistency in systems and IT across 43 forces.

“The relationship with the public is fundamental to our policing model and we agree with HMIC that the role of police leaders continues to be critical in working to build a culture of honesty and integrity throughout their forces. The code of ethics provides an important opportunity to take this forward.

“Chiefs are working with Police and Crime Commissioners to find further savings and increase consistency across police forces. Huge effort is going into collaboration and there are many different models emerging. However the 43 force model creates boundaries and against a need to find further savings, a rethink of the current number of forces may be required, to ensure we can continue to adapt to a changing picture of crime and serve the public to the best of our ability.”

Full report - http://www.hmic.gov.uk/publication/state-of-policing/

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