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Leicestershire Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating

HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.

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Overall rating

requires improvement

Inspection cycle: 2023-2025

Per-pillar ratings

Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
good
Protecting vulnerable people
adequate
Responding to the public
requires improvement
Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
good
Leadership and force management
adequate
Investigating crime
requires improvement
Managing offenders and suspects
good
Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
good

Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

Full inspection history

Every published HMICFRS inspection for Leicestershire 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)

  1. 2022-04-28peel

    PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Leicestershire Police

    • Effectiveness:Outstanding
    • Efficiency:Outstanding
    • Legitimacy:Outstanding
    View report on HMICFRS

PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)

  1. 2019-05-02peel

    PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Leicestershire Police

    • Effectiveness:Good
    • Efficiency:Good
    • Legitimacy:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  2. 2018-03-22peel

    PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Leicestershire Police

    • Overall Effectiveness:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  3. 2017-12-12peel

    PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - Leicestershire Police

    • Overall Legitimacy:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  4. 2017-10-05PEEL

    Abuse of position assessment - Leicestershire Police

    • Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
    View report on HMICFRS
  5. 2016-11-03peel

    PEEL: police efficiency 2016 - Leicestershire Police

    • Efficiency:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  6. 2016-02-18peel

    Police effectiveness 2015 – Leicestershire Police

    • Overall Police Effectiveness:Good
    View report on HMICFRS

Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)

  1. 2010-09-22peel

    Leicestershire Anti-social behaviour inspection

    • Overall performance:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
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