Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC)

Question 1

“Everyone’s business: improving the response to…

Answer 1

domestic abuse”

Question 2

Overall conclusion:
The overall police response to victims of domestic abuse is not good enough… there are weaknesses in the service provided to victims; some of these are serious and this means that victims are put at…

Answer 2

unnecessary risk”

Question 3

Domestic abuse is a priority on paper but, in the majority of forces, not in practice… tackling DA too often remains a poor relation to acquisitive crime and..

Answer 3

serious organised crime

Question 4

Officers are often ill-equipped to identify dangerous patterns of behaviour in DA perpetrators accurately, in particular when there is no overt physical violence but instead there is..

Answer 4

psychological intimidation and control

Question 5

MAIN FINDINGS:

Lack of visible leadership and clear direction set by…

Answer 5

senior officers

Question 6

MAIN FINDINGS:

Poor management and supervision that fails to reinforce the right behaviours, attitudes and actions of..

Answer 6

officers

Question 7

MAIN FINDINGS:

Officers lacking the skills and knowledge necessary to engage confidently and competently with…

Answer 7

victims of DA

Question 8

MAIN FINDINGS:
Alarming and unacceptable weaknesses in some core policing activity, in particular the collection of evidence by officers at the scene of…

Answer 8

DA incidents

Question 9

MAIN FINDINGS:

Failure to priorities action that will tackle DA when setting the priorities for the day-to-day activity of…

Answer 9

frontline officers and assigning their work

Question 10

MAIN FINDINGS:

Extremely limited systematic feedback from victims about their experience of the…

Answer 10

police response