West Mercia Police's approach to Serious and Organised Crime has been branded a “cause of concern” by a police watchdog which has said improvements are needed in the response to organised criminality in the entire West Midlands region.His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services inspected the West Midlands The Regional Organised Crime Unit , which consists of four forces: West Midlands Police, West Mercia Police, Staffordshire and Warwickshire Police.
It said the force needs to improve how it works with its SOC partners and uses information and resources to tackle serious and organised crime effectively.Inspectors now say they are “concerned” to find the force is"not effectively tackling” SOC. The report authors said:"We found that the force wasn’t always using partnership data to help it understand the nature of SOC within communities. At the time of our inspection, the force told us that each of the five community safety partnerships had up-to-date information-sharing agreements. But some interviewees told us that the agreements weren’t fit for purpose.
Inspectors said while West Midlands Police was rated as adequate, the other two forces in the West Midlands ROCU – Staffordshire and Warwickshire – were both rated a 'requires improvement'.
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