Gloucestershire Constabulary — 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
- outstanding
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- good
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- inadequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- requires improvement
- Leadership and force management
- requires improvement
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Gloucestershire 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)
- 2025-05-21national
Gloucestershire Constabulary: National child protection inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Leadership:Requires Improvement
- Support for children:Requires Improvement
- Investigation:Requires Improvement
- Risk assessment:Requires Improvement
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-06-01force-specific
Report on an unannounced inspection visit to police custody suites in Gloucestershire
- Overall custody services:Requires Improvement
- 2021-10-27peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Gloucestershire 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 – Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-11-03peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2016 - Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Overall Efficiency:Good
- 2016-09-22revisit
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Overall Compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Gloucestershire Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good