Merseyside Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
adequate
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- good
- Responding to the public
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- requires improvement
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- good
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Merseyside 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)
- 2023-10-04peel
PEEL 2023–2025: An inspection of Merseyside Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Good
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-08-18peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Merseyside Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2021-12-15peel
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2021/22 – Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- People:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2020-02-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Merseyside Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Merseyside Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2017-12-12peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - Merseyside Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2017-11-09peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2017 - Merseyside Police
- Overall Efficiency:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Merseyside Police
- Overall effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Crime prevention:Good
- Investigation of crime:Requires Improvement
- Protection of vulnerable people:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-09-22force-specific
Merseyside Anti-social behaviour inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good