City of London Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
outstanding
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Recording data about crime
- outstanding
- Responding to the public
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- good
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- 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 City of London 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 2023+ (current framework; scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2023-06-16thematic
A report into the effectiveness of vetting and counter-corruption arrangements in the City of London Police
- Overall effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- 2023-04-13peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of the City of London Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-05-11thematic
City of London – National child protection inspection post-inspection review
- Child Protection Incidents:Requires Improvement
- Child Protection Outcomes:Inadequate
- Child Protection Practices:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-05-02peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – City of London Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – City of London Police
- Effectiveness of crime prevention and tackling anti-social behaviour:Good
- Effectiveness in investigating crime and reducing re-offending:Good
- Protection of vulnerable individuals from harm and support for victims:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- Specialist capabilities of the force:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – City of London Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2017-02-02thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – City of London Police
- Overall Compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - City of London Police
- Overall Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-02-18PEEL
Police effectiveness 2015 – City of London Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Crime prevention:Good
- Investigating crime:Requires Improvement
- Managing offenders:Good
- Protecting vulnerable people:Good
- Supporting victims:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – City of London Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – City of London Police
- Vulnerability:Good