Bedfordshire Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
good
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Recording data about crime
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Bedfordshire 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)Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-11-17peel
A report into the effectiveness of vetting and counter-corruption arrangements in Bedfordshire Police
- Vetting Processes:Good
- IT Monitoring:Requires Improvement
- Counter-Corruption:Good
- 2022-04-13peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Bedfordshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2020-02-21force-specific
Bedfordshire Police - Joint inspection of police custody
- Custody Facilities:Requires Improvement
- 2020-02-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Bedfordshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2016 (vulnerability) revisit - Bedfordshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Inadequate
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Bedfordshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Bedfordshire Police
- Overall:Requires Improvement
- 2016-07-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) revisit - Bedfordshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Inadequate
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Bedfordshire Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Preventing Crime:Good
- Investigating Crime:Requires Improvement
- Protecting Vulnerable People:Good
- Tackling Serious and Organised Crime:Good
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – Bedfordshire Police
- Overall effectiveness in protecting vulnerable individuals:Inadequate
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-11-01thematic
Bedfordshire - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Custody Suite Conditions:Requires Improvement
- Treatment of Detainees:Good
- Safety Measures:Adequate
- 2009-10-12force-specific
Bedfordshire Policing pledge
- Overall policing performance:Good
- 2008-08-30thematic
Bedfordshire Phase 2, neighbourhood policing/citizen focus
- Citizen Focus:Requires Improvement
- 2007-06-29force-specific
Bedfordshire Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good