Kent 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
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- good
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people
- good
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- good
- Leadership and force management
- good
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Kent 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)
- 2022-04-28peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Kent Police
- Effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Efficiency:Requires Improvement
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2021-08-26thematic
Kent - National child protection inspection post-inspection review
- Child protection cases:Requires Improvement
- Child protection cases:Inadequate
- Child protection cases:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-06-20thematic
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2018/19 - Kent Fire and Rescue Service
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- People:Good
- 2019-05-02peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Kent Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Kent Police
- Preventing crime, tackling anti-social behaviour and keeping people safe:Good
- Investigating crime and reducing re-offending:Good
- Protecting vulnerable individuals from harm and supporting victims:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- Specialist capabilities:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Kent Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- 2017-02-02thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – Kent Police
- Overall Compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Kent Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Kent Police
- Overall:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2011-04-04thematic
Kent - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall:Good