Hertfordshire Constabulary — 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
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Recording data about crime
- inadequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- 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 Hertfordshire 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)
- 2022-06-24thematic
Report on an unannounced inspection visit to police custody suites in Hertfordshire
- Overall custody service effectiveness:Good
- Detaining vulnerable individuals:Requires Improvement
- 2021-12-22thematic
Hertfordshire – National child protection inspection post-inspection review
- Child protection incidents:Good
- Child protection incidents:Requires Improvement
- Child protection incidents:Inadequate
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-09-27peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2016 (vulnerability) revisit - Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Vulnerability protection:Inadequate
- 2017-12-12peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Overall legitimacy assessment:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2017-02-02peel
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Compliance with Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Overall grading:Good
- 2016-11-03peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2016 - Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Overall Efficiency:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Hertfordshire Constabulary
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Preventing crime and anti-social behaviour:Good
- Investigating crime:Requires Improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-01-30thematic
Hertfordshire Policing pledge revisit
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Public confidence:Adequate
- 2008-12-31force-specific
Hertfordshire - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Custody Suites:Good