We asked the Home Office about its plans for publishing data on the performance of police forces. Written evidence from The Productivity Institute highlighted that ‘public trust’ is an important productivity outcome.20 The College of Policing agreed that the antidote to public mistrust is transparency and openness.21 The Home Office accepted that transparency can drive behaviour change and said its police performance framework will be published, although it did not yet know which particular d...

We asked the Home Office about its plans for publishing data on the performance of police forces. Written evidence from The Productivity Institute highlighted that ‘public trust’ is an important productivity outcome.20 The College of Policing agreed that the antidote to public mistrust is transparency and openness.21 The Home Office accepted that transparency can drive behaviour change and said its police performance framework will be published, although it did not yet know which particular datasets it would publish, or when, as this is a decision for ministers.22 The changing demands on policing Type: conclusion | Number: 10 | Response status: accepted Government response: 1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: July 2026 1.2 The government has now published the first iteration of the Police Performance Framework, as part of wider reforms to the police performance system described in From Local to National: A New Mode