PEEL Force Inspection
PEEL 2018-19 CoC Recommendations: Cleveland Police
Cause of Concern recommendations tracked by HMICFRS for Cleveland Police (2018-19)
30
Recommendations
23
Completed
Applicable Forces
Cleveland Police
Recommendations (30)
| # | Recommendation | Directed at | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • it promptly attends incidents involving vulnerable people, and any regrading of incidents is based on a structured and recorded risk assessment with supervisory oversight; | Cleveland Police | Superseded |
| T10 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t adequately engage with local communities. This lack of engagement means that public expectations don’t sufficiently influence force priorities and changes to the services it provides. The public also has a limited role in scrutinising the force and helping it to improve. Recommendation: The force should immediately take steps to improve its understanding of local communities, including those who are less likely to complain or those who engage less with the police. | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T11 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t adequately engage with local communities. This lack of engagement means that public expectations don’t sufficiently influence force priorities and changes to the services it provides. The public also has a limited role in scrutinising the force and helping it to improve. Recommendation: The force should immediately take steps to: • understand what services its communities want and how the force's plans and its operating model reflect these expectations; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T12 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t adequately engage with local communities. This lack of engagement means that public expectations don’t sufficiently influence force priorities and changes to the services it provides. The public also has a limited role in scrutinising the force and helping it to improve. Recommendation: The force should immediately take steps to: • engage the public in the scrutiny of its data and processes, including the use of force and stop and search, to help it improve. This may be through an independent advisory group or other means. It should ensure that these people have the relevant training, and are provided with sufficient data and analysis for them to scrutinise and challenge in a constructive way. | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T13 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t adequately understand the demand it faces. A thorough understanding of demand is required to underpin all strategic planning. This failure means it doesn’t have coherent workforce and financial plans to meet demand and deliver the necessary outcomes. Recommendation: The force should immediately: • carry out a comprehensive assessment of current and potential future demand across all operational areas to inform the force’s operating model. This should include latent demand, and the demand generated by internal processes; | Cleveland Police | Superseded |
| T14 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t adequately understand the demand it faces. A thorough understanding of demand is required to underpin all strategic planning. This failure means it doesn’t have coherent workforce and financial plans to meet demand and deliver the necessary outcomes. Recommendation: The force should immediately: • develop co-ordinated financial and workforce plans based on demand, which should be integrated into the force's strategic planning cycle. | Cleveland Police | Superseded |
| T15 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t adequately understand the demand it faces. A thorough understanding of demand is required to underpin all strategic planning. This failure means it doesn’t have coherent workforce and financial plans to meet demand and deliver the necessary outcomes. Recommendation: The force should immediately:• provide senior leaders with the relevant information, support and skills to inform their understanding of demand; and | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T16 | Cause of concern: Many senior leaders (superintending and chief officer ranks, and senior police staff managers) aren’t consistently demonstrating ethical behaviour. The inappropriate behaviour of these leaders within Cleveland Police is so profound that it is affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of the force. Recommendation: The force should take immediate action to: • create a culture where officers and staff are honest and take responsibility for their work and action taken; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T17 | Cause of concern: Many senior leaders (superintending and chief officer ranks, and senior police staff managers) aren’t consistently demonstrating ethical behaviour. The inappropriate behaviour of these leaders within Cleveland Police is so profound that it is affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of the force. Recommendation: The force should take immediate action to: • embed the Code of Ethics principles and behaviours within the organisation; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T18 | Cause of concern: Many senior leaders (superintending and chief officer ranks, and senior police staff managers) aren’t consistently demonstrating ethical behaviour. The inappropriate behaviour of these leaders within Cleveland Police is so profound that it is affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of the force. Recommendation: The force should take immediate action to: • ensure there is a process for the workforce to discuss ethical dilemmas regularly and understand decisions made by the force about fairness that also influence policy and practice. | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T19 | Cause of concern: Many senior leaders (superintending and chief officer ranks, and senior police staff managers) aren’t consistently demonstrating ethical behaviour. The inappropriate behaviour of these leaders within Cleveland Police is so profound that it is affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of the force. Recommendation: The force should take immediate action to: • hold the entire workforce to account for inappropriate behaviour and poor performance; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T2 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • it safeguards all victims of domestic abuse, through the effective completion of a structured risk assessment, adequately supervising any changes to the initial assessment; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T20 | Cause of concern: The force doesn’t appropriately prioritise crime prevention. There is a lack of strategic direction, and the force doesn’t allocate enough resources to prevention work. Staff who carry out prevention work lack an understanding of the priorities they should be tackling. Recommendation: The force should take immediate steps to: • provide strategic direction and co-ordination of all prevention activity; | Cleveland Police | Superseded |
| T21 | Cause of concern: The force doesn’t appropriately prioritise crime prevention. There is a lack of strategic direction, and the force doesn’t allocate enough resources to prevention work. Staff who carry out prevention work lack an understanding of the priorities they should be tackling. Recommendation: The force should take immediate steps to:• ensure officers and staff working within neighbourhood teams understand the needs of local communities, their priorities, and the threats they face; and | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T22 | Cause of concern: The force doesn’t appropriately prioritise crime prevention. There is a lack of strategic direction, and the force doesn’t allocate enough resources to prevention work. Staff who carry out prevention work lack an understanding of the priorities they should be tackling. Recommendation: The force should take immediate steps to:• ensure there are the right resources, in the right place, to carry out structured problem-solving and prevention activity aligned to its priorities; | Cleveland Police | Superseded |
| T23 | Cause of concern: The force doesn’t appropriately prioritise crime prevention. There is a lack of strategic direction, and the force doesn’t allocate enough resources to prevention work. Staff who carry out prevention work lack an understanding of the priorities they should be tackling. Recommendation: The force should take immediate steps to:• monitor the effectiveness of its crime prevention activity, evaluating and sharing effective practice both internally and with other organisations. | Cleveland Police | Superseded |
| T24 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t consistently treat its workforce with fairness and respect. It doesn’t effectively communicate with or engage its workforce, its processes aren’t perceived to be fair and it doesn’t understand its workforce well enough to support them. Recommendation: The force should: • communicate with the workforce, so they have a clear understanding of what is happening in the force; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T25 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t consistently treat its workforce with fairness and respect. It doesn’t effectively communicate with or engage its workforce, its processes aren’t perceived to be fair and it doesn’t understand its workforce well enough to support them. Recommendation: The force should: • ensure that promotion processes are transparent, fair and perceived as such by the workforce. | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T26 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t consistently treat its workforce with fairness and respect. It doesn’t effectively communicate with or engage its workforce, its processes aren’t perceived to be fair and it doesn’t understand its workforce well enough to support them. Recommendation: The force should: • fairly and consistently identify those with the potential to become senior leaders and support them to gain the skills for future leadership role; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T27 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t consistently treat its workforce with fairness and respect. It doesn’t effectively communicate with or engage its workforce, its processes aren’t perceived to be fair and it doesn’t understand its workforce well enough to support them. Recommendation: the force should: • improve the timeliness of its grievance handling processes; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T28 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t consistently treat its workforce with fairness and respect. It doesn’t effectively communicate with or engage its workforce, its processes aren’t perceived to be fair and it doesn’t understand its workforce well enough to support them. Recommendation: The force should: • involve the workforce in decision making; listening to their feedback, acting on it, and communicating action taken; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T29 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t consistently treat its workforce with fairness and respect. It doesn’t effectively communicate with or engage its workforce, its processes aren’t perceived to be fair and it doesn’t understand its workforce well enough to support them. Recommendation: The force should: • understand the performance of its workforce, support their development, and deal with poor performance fairly and consistently; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T3 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • it supplies people with the information they need and are entitled to under the provisions of Clare’s Law and Sarah’s Law. | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T30 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t consistently treat its workforce with fairness and respect. It doesn’t effectively communicate with or engage its workforce, its processes aren’t perceived to be fair and it doesn’t understand its workforce well enough to support them. Recommendation: The force should: • understand the risks and threats to the wellbeing of its workforce and use this to inform the actions it takes; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T4 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • officers and staff can identify vulnerable people and repeat victims effectively; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T5 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • referrals for ongoing safeguarding are made at the appropriate time; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T6 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • the cumulative effect of numerous incidents involving the same victim or household is properly risk assessed, considered and responded to; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T7 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • there are effective processes in place for catching criminals which are subject to supervision and scrutiny, and it uses the available legal powers to prevent re-offending; and | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T8 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police is failing to respond appropriately to vulnerable people, including children. It is missing opportunities to safeguard them and is exposing them to risk. Recommendation: The force must take immediate action to ensure that: • there is sufficient supervision of domestic abuse cases assessed as having a standard level of risk; | Cleveland Police | Completed |
| T9 | Cause of concern: Cleveland Police doesn’t adequately engage with local communities. This lack of engagement means that public expectations don’t sufficiently influence force priorities and changes to the services it provides. The public also has a limited role in scrutinising the force and helping it to improve. Recommendation: The force should immediately take steps to improve its communication and engagement with the public of Cleveland. This should include informing them of changes to policing services, communicating the action it has taken to address force priorities, and the provision of community and personal safety advice. | Cleveland Police | Superseded |