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UK: HMIC Report: The Strategic Policing Requirement: An inspection of the arrangements that police forces have in place to meet the Strategic Policing Requirement

22 April 2014

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This report "examines how well police forces have established the arrangements that the SPR [Strategic Policing Requirement] requires them to have in place to counter a number of specified threats to national security and public safety." Those "threats" are terrorism, civil emergencies, organised crime, public order threats, and large-scale cyber incidents. The chief recommendation is that:

"Chief constables should, immediately, establish a collective leadership approach that is committed to securing the requirement level of preparedness to respond to the national threats - in a way that is consistent across England and Wales."

News articles focused on the report's findings that UK police forces are woefully underprepared for large-scale cyber attacks, but HMIC also found other failings. In relation to civil emergencies, "across all 43 forces, only 16 submitted documents that demonstrated forces had any understanding of the threat, risk and harm." With regard to public order: "Only a third of the 18 forces visited could respond effectively to a test scenario that required them to identify and muster the required trainned and equipped public order personnel."

See the full report: The Strategic Policing Requirement: An inspection of the arrangements that police forces have in place to meet the Strategic Policing Requirement (pdf)

Also see: Strategic Policing Requirement (pdf) on which HMIC's inspection is based.

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