Performance and Measurement
Annual Performance Data
Information relating to policing performance is published here annually for all 43 police forces in England and Wales.
The APACS Policing Performance data for 2008/09 was released on 4th November 2009. Guidance is available on how to interpret this data. We have also put together a list of FAQs.
Between 2004/05 and 2007/08, we measured policing performance using the Policing Performance Assessment Framework. From 2008/09, a new framework – Assessments of Policing and Community Safety (APACS) - was introduced.
For 2007/08 and 2008/09, following announcements in the Policing Green Paper, data has not been graded. The Green Paper sets out a change in the strategic direction of performance management, with a reduced role for the Home Office, and an increased role for HMIC and, locally, for Police Authorities.
The Green Paper announced that the Home Office will neither set nor maintain top-down numerical targets for individual police forces, with the exception of increasing public confidence, and will seek to reduce the data burdens placed on the police by the Home Office.
PPAF and APACS were both developed by the Home Office, with support from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) (new window), Association of Police Authorities (APA) (new window), the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) (new window) and other stakeholders.
