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Police: Standards

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 29 May 2025UIN 53344

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the press notice entitled Home Secretary to announce major policing reforms, published on 17 November 2024, what her Department's timetable is for establishing a unit to monitor police performance.

Answered by Dame Diana Johnson

Since 19 November 2024, when My Rt Hon Friend, the Home Secretary, announced her plans for policing reform, we have been working closely with the sector to draw up a new Police Performance Framework to ensure standards are upheld across the country, and to establish a new Unit within the Home Office which will identify and support force-level improvements.

Further details will be published in the forthcoming Police Reform White Paper.

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