PEEL Assessments 2025–27

PEEL (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy) is our regular assessment of police forces in England and Wales. We use inspection findings, analysis and our professional judgment to assess how good forces are in several areas of policing. Most of these areas are then graded as outstanding, good, adequate, requires improvement or inadequate.

In the table below you can see the forces we have reported on in the 2025–27 PEEL cycle, with an overview of how they performed. Choose a force to read its full report.

Key

Outstanding
Good
Adequate
Requires improvement
Inadequate

Police force	Leadership and force management	Attracting, developing and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce	Using powers fairly, appropriately and with justification	Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability	Responding to the public	Investigating crime	Safeguarding children and adults at risk of harm	Managing fraud	Providing a safe and lawful custody environment
Humberside	Adequate	Adequate	Adequate	Outstanding	Good	Adequate	Requires improvement	Adequate	Adequate
Kent	Good	Outstanding	Adequate	Good	Adequate	Adequate	Adequate	Adequate	Not inspected
North Yorkshire	Good	Good	Good	Good	Adequate	Adequate	Good	Good	Requires improvement
Surrey	Requires improvement	Requires improvement	Good	Good	Adequate	Requires improvement	Adequate	Requires improvement	Not inspected
Wiltshire	Adequate	Adequate	Good	Good	Adequate	Requires improvement	Requires improvement	Adequate	Not inspected