Independent Scrutiny & Oversight Board

🚨 NEW: The @PoliceISOB 2024 Annual Feedback Report is out now! 🚨

This report looks at the main challenges stopping the Police Race Action Plan (#PRAP) from working well.

Check it out and support our work for fairness and justice.

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Our final report calls on the Home Office to ensure independent scrutiny is embedded into the future of police reform — with the funding, data requirements and inspection powers to make progress stick.

Only 6 of 44 police forces in England and Wales covered by the Police Race Action Plan have acknowledged institutional racism - 5 years into a national reform programme.

Our final report explores what this means.

policeisob.co.uk/annual-reports

What we heard.

36 people spoke to us for our final report. Community leaders, officers, scrutiny board members, civil society organisations. All asked the same question: is policing genuinely getting better for Black people?

Here are some things they told us 🧵

After 5 years scrutinising the Police Race Action Plan, we're publishing our final report today.

Progress has been made, but it's been uneven, fragile, and far too dependent on individual goodwill rather than structural accountability.

Read it here 👇 policeisob.co.uk/annual-reports