Durham 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
- Recording data about crime
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- 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 Durham 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)Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2021-10-27peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Durham 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 – Durham Constabulary
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Durham Constabulary
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2017-12-12peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - Durham Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-02-02thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – Durham Constabulary
- Overall Compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Durham Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Durham Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Durham Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-09-22force-specific
Durham Anti-social behaviour inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- 2006-09-29force-specific
Durham South Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall performance:Requires Improvement