Monitoring
The Watch
Live and rolling: legislation, inspections, FOI data, misconduct and complaint proceedings, read against what they mean for victims of stalking, domestic abuse and digital evidence failure.
Ten monitors
Each monitor tracks one accountability mechanism, with sources, deadlines, and the gap between what is promised and what the numbers show. Open one to read the detail.
Monitor 01
Live tracking
Parliamentary Monitor
Active bills, consultations and reviews on stalking, digital evidence and victims' rights, with VNS submissions tracked.
Updated 21 June 2026 →
Monitor 02
2025-27 cycle, live data
PEEL Monitor
HMICFRS grades for all 44 forces, pillar by pillar, with current causes of concern and a link to every source report.
Updated 21 June 2026 →
Monitor 03
Rolling programme
National Child Protection Inspections
A separate HMICFRS programme that can identify failures between PEEL inspections. The same structural failures that misidentify children also misidentify adults.
Updated 2 June 2026 →
Monitor 04
Active monitoring
Clare's Law Monitor
Forces have a 28-day statutory deadline to disclose. Performance has been inconsistently poor since 2014. Suffolk became the first to receive an accelerated cause of concern.
Updated 4 June 2026 →
Monitor 05
Recommendations overdue
Digital Forensics Monitor
HMICFRS found forces overwhelmed in December 2022. Nine recommendations, deadlines passed, no progress report.
Updated 2 June 2026 →
Monitor 06
Accountability tracking
Super Complaint Tracker
All 43 forces published action plans in November 2024. VNS flags where PEEL grades now contradict those commitments.
Updated 2 June 2026 →
Monitor 07
Active research programme
FOI Intelligence
Where inspection reports give grades, FOI requests give numbers. Civil settlements, SPO use, restraining orders, device backlogs.
Updated 2 June 2026 →
Monitor 08
Active monitoring
Misconduct and IOPC
Complaints at a record high while the IOPC faces a 34% real-terms budget cut. The watchdog is being defunded as demand rises.
Updated 2 June 2026 →
Monitor 09
11 recommendations, monitoring compliance
Investigating Crime Monitor
HMICFRS's March 2025 thematic inspection into how forces investigate crime. 11 recommendations, deadlines mostly passed.
Updated 2 June 2026 →
Monitor 10
Annual, next report Sept 2026
State of Policing Monitor
HMICFRS's annual national assessment, tracked year on year for findings on stalking, domestic abuse, tech-facilitated abuse and the treatment of victims.
Updated 25 May 2026 →
Live tools & feeds
Monitors with embedded search or live data alongside the editorial. Open these to query parliament, the inspectorate or FOI directly.
Live tool
Parliament
Parliamentary Monitor
Live Hansard, calls for evidence and consultation search across MoJ and Home Office, alongside the editorial bill tracker.
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Live tool
HMICFRS
PEEL Monitor
All 44 forces, every pillar grade and cause of concern, sourced direct from the inspectorate.
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Live tool
WhatDoTheyKnow
FOI Intelligence
Search FOI requests across forces, trauma-informed presets, police-only filter, opens in a new tab.
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Live tool
HMICFRS
Thematic & National Reports
Cross-force thematic inspections pulled live from the inspectorate's publications feed.
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Live tool
National Archives
Case Law search
Search the official UK judgments database - Court of Appeal, High Court and the tribunals - for stalking, DA, coercive control, disclosure and digital evidence.
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Crossover with the Force Checker
Several monitors (PEEL, Super Complaint, Misconduct) feed directly into the per-force pages. Where a force’s published commitments contradict its inspection grades or its live misconduct data, that gap is flagged.
Open the Force Checker