Cumbria Constabulary — 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
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- outstanding
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Recording data about crime
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- good
- Investigating crime
- good
- Protecting vulnerable people
- good
- Managing offenders and suspects
- good
- Leadership and force management
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Cumbria 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)
- 2025-07-16peel
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- People:Adequate
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 Cumbria Constabulary
- Vetting and Counter-Corruption:Requires Improvement
- 2022-04-28peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Cumbria Constabulary
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-05-02peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Cumbria Constabulary
- Overall Performance:Good
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Cumbria Constabulary
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Prevention and Anti-Social Behavior:Good
- Investigation:Good
- Protection of Vulnerable People:Good
- Serious and Organised Crime:Good
- 2017-11-09peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2017 - Cumbria Constabulary
- Efficiency:Good
- 2017-10-05PEEL
Abuse of position assessment - Cumbria Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2016 – Cumbria Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Cumbria Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-09-22revisit
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - Cumbria Constabulary
- Cumbria Constabulary:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Cumbria Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – Cumbria Constabulary
- Vulnerability:Adequate
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-01-30peel
Cumbria Policing pledge revisit
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Service delivery:Requires Improvement
- 2009-09-01force-specific
Cumbria - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Treatment of Detainees:Adequate
- 2004-07-30thematic
Cumbria Best value - police training
- Training Effectiveness:Good
- Resource Management:Adequate
- 2004-05-30force-specific
Cumbria, West Cumbria Basic Command Unit assessment
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Quality of Service:Adequate