Cambridgeshire Constabulary — 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
- outstanding
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- inadequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- inadequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- good
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Cambridgeshire Constabulary 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 2023+ (current framework; scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2024-03-12peel
PEEL 2023–2025: An inspection of Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Overall Assessment:Requires Improvement
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-06-21peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2018-12-20peel
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2018/19 - Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- People:Requires Improvement
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Preventing crime and anti-social behaviour:Good
- Investigating crime:Good
- Protecting vulnerable people:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Preventing crime and tackling anti-social behaviour:Good
- Investigating crime and reducing re-offending:Good
- Protecting the vulnerable from harm:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- Specialist capabilities:Good
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-09-22thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Compliance with the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Effectiveness:Good
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-01-30peel
Cambridgeshire Policing pledge revisit
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Service Delivery:Adequate
- 2008-02-29force-specific
Cambridgeshire - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Detainee treatment:Requires Improvement
- Custody environment:Adequate
- 2006-09-29thematic
Cambridgeshire Baseline assessment 2006
- Overall Performance:Adequate