Avon and Somerset Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
requires improvement
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- good
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- requires improvement
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- requires improvement
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Avon and Somerset Police that carries a graded judgement, showing only the area-level grades exactly as published.
HMICFRS changed its assessment framework over time, so grades are not directly comparable across eras. We group reports by framework era and never infer any trend, improvement or decline between them.
Download this force’s inspection history (CSV)PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2017-12-12peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - Avon and Somerset Constabulary
- Overall Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2017-11-09peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2017 - Avon and Somerset Constabulary
- Overall Efficiency:Good
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Avon and Somerset Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Avon and Somerset Constabulary
- Effectiveness:Good