Dorset 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
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- requires improvement
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- 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 Dorset 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)
- 2022-09-07thematic
Dorset – National child protection inspection post-inspection review
- Child Protection Cases:Good
- Child Protection Cases:Requires Improvement
- Child Protection Cases:Inadequate
- 2022-04-13peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Dorset Police
- Effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Efficiency:Requires Improvement
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2021-08-26thematic
Dorset – National child protection inspection
- Child protection practice:Good
- Child protection practice:Requires Improvement
- Child protection practice:Inadequate
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-09-27peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Dorset Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Dorset Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Dorset Police
- Preventing crime:Good
- Investigating crime and reducing re-offending:Good
- Protecting vulnerable individuals:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- Specialist capabilities:Good
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Dorset Police
- Legitimacy:Inadequate
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2005-08-30force-specific
Dorset, Eastern Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Operational Effectiveness:Good
- Community Engagement:Adequate