Lincolnshire Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
inadequate
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- requires improvement
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- inadequate
- Investigating crime
- inadequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- inadequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- requires improvement
- Leadership and force management
- inadequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Lincolnshire 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)PEEL 2023+ (current framework; scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2025-01-24thematic
A report into the effectiveness of integrity arrangements in Lincolnshire Police
- vetting:Requires Improvement
- professional standards:Requires Improvement
- counter-corruption:Requires Improvement
- 2024-12-06peel
Lincolnshire Police: move to enhanced phase of monitoring
- Police Efficiency, Effectiveness and Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-08-03force-specific
Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in Lincolnshire
- Custody Services:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2020-02-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Lincolnshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Lincolnshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Crime prevention:Good
- Investigation of crime:Good
- Protection of vulnerable people:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- 2016-09-22thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - Lincolnshire Police
- Stop and Search Compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police Effectiveness 2015 – Lincolnshire Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Preventing Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour:Good
- Investigating Crime and Managing Offenders:Requires Improvement
- Protecting Vulnerable People and Supporting Victims:Good
- Tackling Serious and Organised Crime:Good
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2004-07-30force-specific
Lincolnshire Police National Computer compliance audit
- National Computer Compliance:Requires Improvement