Victim Experience Surveys

Understand and improve the victim experience

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What you get

Guaranteed Compliance

Meet HMICFRS and Home Office expectations with consistent, auditable victim feedback data, ready for inspection and reporting.

Experience tracking

Survey victims at key touchpoints — first contact, investigation, outcome — to understand the journey from start to finish.

Instant insights

Access real-time dashboards to identify pain points, monitor trends, and uncover the root causes of dissatisfaction.

Rapid intervention

Trigger alerts when responses indicate poor treatment, delays, or gaps in communication, enabling timely action.

Cost-effective multichannel reach

Maximise digital response rates via SMS, email, and web, with telephone surveys for harder-to-reach groups.

Integrate

Integrate the data with your RMS like ControlWorks, your BI apps like PowerBi, Tableau, and notification apps like GOV.UK Notify

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Instant Understanding

Real-time insights

With GovMetric, you’ll see victim feedback from the very first survey, helping you understand how people experience reporting, investigation, and resolution in real time.

See the whole journey

Track satisfaction at every stage — from first contact through investigation to case closure — so you can spot gaps in communication, delays, or treatment before they escalate.

Drive trust and legitimacy

Use evidence from live dashboards to demonstrate transparency, improve victim care, and show inspectors and communities that you are acting on feedback.

Learn more about how we help with citizen and victim experience below:

September 9, 2025

Citizen Experience

GovMetric x Staffordshire County Council

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September 9, 2025

Citizen Experience

GovMetric: A 20-Year Journey of Transformation

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September 9, 2025

Citizen Experience

“Citizen-First” is More Than a Buzzword

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September 5, 2025

Citizen Experience

Driving Change: Your Feedback Shapes a Better Journey

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September 5, 2025

Citizen Experience

Turning Feedback Into Action

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September 5, 2025

Citizen Experience

Redbridge: Reducing Failure Demand Through Citizen Insight

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FAQs

What is the Victim Satisfaction surveying?

GovMetric CX enables police forces to capture, analyse, and act on victim feedback at every stage of the victim journey, ensuring compliance with inspection regimes and improving the overall victim experience.

Why is victim satisfaction important?

Measuring victim satisfaction is a regulatory requirement for forces. It ensures victims’ voices are heard, informs HMICFRS inspections, supports the Victims’ Code, and builds trust and confidence in policing.

How is feedback collected from victims?

Feedback is captured across multiple channels: SMS, email, IVR, web forms, and mediated phone surveys. Timing can be automated via integrations with RMS/CRM systems (e.g. ControlWorks) to ensure surveys are triggered at the right moment.

What insights does GovMetric provide?

Forces receive:
• Quantitative data on satisfaction levels
• Qualitative insights from free-text feedback
• Sentiment analysis via NLP
• Real-time alerts on negative responses
• Dashboards for trends by service area, crime type, or journey stage

Can feedback be tailored to different stages of the victim journey?

Yes. Forces can deploy different survey journeys (e.g. at first contact, investigation stage, closure) to build a holistic view of the victim’s experience. Thames Valley Police use this multi-journey model successfully.

How does GovMetric support compliance with policing standards?

GovMetric provides evidence for HMICFRS inspections, supports requirements of the Victims’ Code, and ensures victims’ voices are included in performance reporting. Reports are audit-ready for inspection and governance use.

Does the system integrate with police systems?

Yes. GovMetric CX integrates with systems such as ControlWorks, Connect, Qlik, GoodSam, and Single Online Home via REST APIs or middleware, enabling automated survey triggers and richer context.

How does GovMetric help prevent over-surveying?

Built-in survey controls prevent too many surveys being sent within a set timeframe, and restrict availability windows to ensure victims aren’t repeatedly contacted.

Is the solution secure?

Yes. GovMetric is hosted on AWS within the UK/EU, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certified. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit, GDPR compliant, and subject to strict access controls.

How does GovMetric support victims’ rights under GDPR?

Victims can opt out of surveys, request data deletion, or have their data anonymised. GovMetric complies fully with GDPR and ICO requirements.

Can frontline officers access the feedback?

Yes if this is desired. Role-based dashboards can be configured for investigators, supervisors, and senior leaders. Insights can be filtered by team or area to make the feedback actionable at every level.

What benefits does this deliver to forces?

Forces gain:

• Evidence for compliance and inspections
• Real-time visibility of victim satisfaction
• Early warning of issues through alerts
• Insight into failure demand and service weaknesses
• Improved public trust and legitimacy

How long does implementation take?

A typical force implementation takes 2-8 weeks, including survey design, system integration, and staff training.

Can GovMetric capture the voice of the employee (VoE) as well as victims?

Yes. GovMetric CX can also run surveys for officers and staff, enabling forces to align victim satisfaction with employee experience for a complete view of performance.

Insights + AI = ROI

Improve Citizen Experience
Prevent Failure Demand
Reduce Complaint Volumes
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