Devon & Cornwall 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
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Recording data about crime
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- inadequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- requires improvement
- Investigating crime
- inadequate
- 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 Devon & Cornwall 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 - Devon and Cornwall Police
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-11-09peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2017 - Devon and Cornwall Police
- Efficiency:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Devon and Cornwall Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Preventing crime, tackling anti-social behaviour and keeping people safe:Good
- Investigating crime and reducing re-offending:Good
- Protecting the vulnerable and supporting victims:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- Specialist capabilities:Good
- 2017-02-02revisit
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – Devon and Cornwall Police
- Overall compliance with the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Devon and Cornwall Police
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-02-18PEEL
Police effectiveness 2015 – Devon and Cornwall Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – Devon and Cornwall Police
- Overall effectiveness for protecting vulnerable individuals:Good
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2005-05-30force-specific
Devon and Cornwall, South and West Devon Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2004-01-31force-specific
Devon and Cornwall, North East Devon Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Good