Gloucestershire Police rated inadequate at investigating crime
Gloucestershire Police has been rated inadequate at investigating crime, with inspectors finding a deterioration in performance and concerns over keeping people safe.
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Gloucestershire Police has been rated inadequate at investigating crime, according to a review by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary. The inspection also found a deterioration in the force's performance and raised concern about its ability to keep people safe.
The temporary chief constable, Maggie Blyth, accepted the findings. She said the force could not make the improvements needed without practical and financial help from the government.
"It's really important that as an organisation that I have the finances and the resources and the modern tech to enable my workforce to do the job," she said. She added that the workloads of some officers and staff were unacceptably high. With more IT support and modernisation, she said, that is slowly changing.
The rating puts the force under scrutiny over how it investigates crime and protects the public. The inspectorate's findings point to a failure in a core area of policing and wider concerns about performance. The force's leadership says its ability to improve depends on resources and funding from central government.
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| Gloucestershire Police was rated inadequate at investigating crime and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary found a deterioration in its performance. | |
| Temporary Chief Constable Maggie Blyth accepted the inspection findings but said improvements would require practical and financial help from government. | |
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BBC ONE West focused on the inspection findings that Gloucestershire Police was rated inadequate at investigating crime and that there was concern over public safety. It aired the temporary chief constable's response, giving weight to her argument that government funding and resources are needed for improvement. The broadcast also carried unrelated items, including the University of Bristol's 150th anniversary, and did not set out the full detail of the inspectorate's report beyond the main grading and concerns.
- “Gloucestershire's police force has been rated as inadequate at investigating crime and there's concern over its ability to keep people safe.”
- “Temporary Chief Constable Maggie Blyth accepts the findings but says improvements can't be made without practical and financial help from the government.”
- “the workloads of some of our officers and staff are unacceptably high”
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