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Value for money

This section contains links to our reports and findings on how far police forces and authorities provide value for money. From this page, you can:

• Read our independent, professional assessment of how well each force is prepared for the financial challenges of the budget cuts over the next four years – just choose Preparedness Inspection from the menu to the left.
• Read ‘Demanding Times – The front line and police visibility’ – an HMIC report from March 2011 defining the police front line, and revealing the percentage of police available to the public.
• Download ‘Valuing the Police – Policing in an age of austerity’ – HMIC’s report from July 2010 which showed that 11 percent of the police were visibly available to the public.

HMIC also gathers together data from the Home Office annual data requirement (crime and workforce data) and force satisfaction surveys, as well as Chartered Institute of Public Finance (CIPFA) annual financial returns (from 2008/09, this information was used to create a Value for Money profile for each force). To view this data in .csv format, visit our data section.