Avon & Somerset Police recruited officers with criminal records or cautions in vetting failures View Image

Avon & Somerset Police recruited officers who had criminal records or cautions without properly considering the risks when vetting them, government inspectors found.

A report published today (Wednesday, October 29) by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) judged that the force needed to improve vetting procedures, professional standards and counter-corruption arrangements.

The government inspectors said that of 37 cases it investigated on vetting new recruits over the last three years, the force did not “consider identified risks or relevant risk mitigations” for 10 of them.

One of these posed “several significant corruption risks” and w

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