I have asked the Chief Constable to comment on the report and to provide a full response on how Surrey Police is addressing the Area for Improvement for Chief Constables identified in the report. The Chief Constables response was: “I welcome the October 2019 HMICFRS report, The Hard Yards: Police-to-police collaboration, which focussed on the [...]
I welcome the HMICFRS’s focus on Countylines and the recommendations that emphasise a need to improve our response to vulnerable people especially children. I am pleased the inspection highlights that joint working is improving but agree more could be done both locally and nationally to protect our most at risk people and communities from the [...]
I am pleased to see that HMICFRS have found that most forces have a good and improving capability to the multi-agency approach towards Prevent. I welcome the recommendations made for the NPCC to give further clarity, guidance and support to forces. Locally we have made great improvements over the last few years in working with [...]
I wholeheartedly agree that everyone needs to play their part in identifying, preventing and tackling child sexual abuse in the family environment. Lives are destroyed when this type of abhorrent abuse is not identified. Having a thorough knowledge of the early warning signs and the confidence to be professionally curious and challenge is fundamental to [...]
Surrey Police has worked hard over recent years to considerably improve its response to domestic abuse and this has included the delivery of joint training with the CPS to increase understanding of evidence led investigations. This has included the effective use of Res gestae as a gateway to allow hearsay evidence against defendants in domestic [...]
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