Review of police service integrity
On 18 July 2011 the Home Secretary made an oral statement to Parliament about the Metropolitan Police Service when she stated that “current allegations about phone hacking are not, unfortunately, the only recent example of alleged corruption in the police service.”
On 20 July 2011 HMIC was formally commissioned by the Home Secretary to consider instances of undue influence, inappropriate contractual arrangements and other abuses of power in police relationships with the media and other parties and to make recommendations about what needs to be done.
HMIC’s report, ‘Without Fear or Favour – A review of police relationships’, published on 13 December 2011, looked at the system of controls that seek to prevent and tackle relationships that create a conflict of interest and therefore a risk to police impartiality. In other words, police relationships that lead to the public not being treated fairly by the police. The review included relations with the media, disclosure of information, hospitality, gratuities, procurement, contracts and business interests. HMIC examined the data (where available), systems to proactively seek out wrong doing, the work of governing bodies, corporate governance and oversight, training, intelligence and enforcement.
Read Without Fear or Favour – A review of police relationships
To see the research findings that contributed to our report please visit our data section.
You can see the Review’s terms of reference here.