Police forces and the Home Office missed the inquiry's deadlines for keeping sexual offenders out of policing, the Angiolini Inquiry found.
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The Angiolini Inquiry was set up after a serving Metropolitan Police officer abducted and murdered a woman in 2021. Its Part 2 First Report, laid before Parliament on 2 December 2025, reviewed progress on the 16 recommendations from its Part 1 report, which were accepted in full in 2024. As of September 2025, 26% of police forces in England and Wales still had no specialist policy for investigating sexual offences including indecent exposure. A review of sexual-offence allegations recorded against serving officers was replaced by a screening tool not due until 2026 'subject to funding', and several vetting recommendations were only partly implemented. The Home Office's public campaign on indecent exposure was nine months late, and the National Police Chiefs' Council acknowledged that culture work 'has not progressed as quickly as expected'.
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