Essex Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
Not separately graded
HMICFRS did not publish a single overall grade for this force in this inspection cycle. See the per-pillar grades below for the published assessment.
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Recording data about crime
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- good
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Essex 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)
- 2022-10-14peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Essex Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2022-07-27thematic
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2021/22 – Essex Fire and Rescue Service
- Effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Efficiency:Requires Improvement
- People:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2017-02-02thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – Essex Police
- Compliance with Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-07-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) revisit - Essex Police
- Effectiveness in protecting vulnerable people:Inadequate
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Essex Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-02-09peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Essex Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – Essex Police
- Overall effectiveness:Inadequate
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2009-10-12peel
Essex Policing pledge
- Service Delivery:Good
- Community Engagement:Requires Improvement
- 2005-11-30force-specific
Essex, Harlow Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Leadership:Good
- Crime prevention:Requires Improvement
- Response to incidents:Good
- 2005-04-29force-specific
Essex, Tendring Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Leadership:Good
- Service Delivery:Adequate
- 2005-01-31force-specific
Essex, Chelmsford Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall performance:Good
- Leadership and governance:Requires Improvement
- Service delivery:Good
- 2005-01-31force-specific
Essex, Braintree Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Good