Police productivity
Published on:We examine how the Home Office is supporting police forces to improve their productivity and long-term financial sustainability.
We examine how the Home Office is supporting police forces to improve their productivity and long-term financial sustainability.
Information and insights from our examination of the Home Office and from their annual report and accounts.
We’ve used our Police Uplift Programme report to give context on the Home Office reaching its target of 20,000 new police officers.
Our report looks at whether the government is well positioned to achieve its drug strategy’s 10-year ambitions.
This report examines whether the Home Office is well placed to deliver value for money from the Police Uplift Programme.
This interactive map displays the network of geographies covered by bodies in the criminal justice system, such as the police, courts and probation services.
This factual investigation will examine how MoD responds to the risk of economic crime and economic misconduct.
This piece explains how the NAO uses spatial analytics to bring audit teams closer to the data and visualise the complex geographic relationships at work behind the scenes in the justice system.
This report assesses the Home Office’s progress in delivering the National Law Enforcement Data Service programme to replace outdated police ICT systems.
The C&AG has issued a clean audit opinion, providing assurance to Parliament on the Home Office’s 2024-25 financial statements.
The National Audit Office study will focus on whether HMPPS is on track to deliver an efficient and effective Electronic Monitoring Service.
This report examines efforts to address gender based violence, to support government’s target to halve violence against women and girls.
The C&AG has issued a clean audit opinion, providing assurance to Parliament on the Department for Transport’s 2024-25 financial statements.
This report examines the Home Office’s progress in managing a clear assurance and oversight system for police forces’ financial sustainability.
Government can save significant sums of time and money by improving how it engages with technology suppliers.
This report examines HM Prison and Probation Service and the Ministry of Justice progress in expanding and maintaining the prison estate.
This looks at the chain of events which led to the government paying £711m in compensation to 34,000 pensioners who retired from the Police and Firefighters’ Pension Schemes between 2001 and 2006 without receiving their full pension entitlement. Due to the extent of the legal process in the case, some police and firefighters were retired for over 15 years before they received their full pension entitlement from government.
In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
The government is not consistently supporting prison leavers in resettling into the community and the quality of services has declined in recent years, a report by the National Audit Office has found.
This interactive briefing pack summarises the National Audit Office’s work in the police and fire sectors since 2012. It highlights the key messages coming from a selection of our recent reports and should be of interest to Police and Crime Commissioners and their officers, senior police and fire officials and the general public.