Metropolitan Police Service — 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
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Investigating crime
- inadequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- inadequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- 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 Metropolitan Police Service 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)
- 2026-01-21force-specific
An Inspection of the Metropolitan Police Service's Counter Corruption
- Counter Corruption Strategies:Good
- Risk Assessment:Requires Improvement
- 2023-04-27peel
An inspection of the Metropolitan Police Service’s response to lessons from the Stephen Port murders
- Response to lessons from the Stephen Port murders:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-09-27peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Metropolitan Police Service
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-02-02peel
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – Metropolitan Police Service
- Compliance with Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Metropolitan Police Service
- Overall effectiveness:Good
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2011-07-05force-specific
Croydon - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Safety and Detainee Treatment:Good
- Procedures and Management:Adequate
- 2011-06-15force-specific
Sutton - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall assessment:Requires Improvement
- 2010-11-01thematic
Harrow - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall assessment:Good
- Detainee treatment:Requires Improvement
- 2010-09-22peel
Metropolitan Police Service Anti-social behaviour inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2010-09-01thematic
Greenwich - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall:Good
- 2010-08-01force-specific
Kignston upon Thames - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Police Custody Suites:Requires Improvement
- 2010-08-01thematic
Merton - Joint inspection of custody suites
- Custody treatment and care:Requires Improvement
- 2010-06-01force-specific
Wandsworth - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Treatment of Detainees:Adequate
- Safeguarding:Good
- Health Care Provision:Requires Improvement
- 2010-03-18peel
Metropolitan Police Service, Barking and Dagenham Basic Command Unit inspection second revisit
- Overall performance:Adequate
- 2009-10-12peel
Metropolitan Police Service Policing pledge
- Policing Pledge Performance:Good
- 2009-07-01thematic
Ealing - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall Management of Custody Suites:Good
- Treatment of Detainees:Adequate
- 2009-07-01force-specific
Tower Hamlets - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Police Custody Suites:Requires Improvement
- 2009-06-01force-specific
Lambeth - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Custody conditions:Requires Improvement
- Treatment of detainees:Adequate
- Oversight and governance:Requires Improvement
- 2008-09-29force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Havering Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall performance:Adequate
- 2008-08-30force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Greenwich Basic Operational Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- 2008-06-29force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Camden Basic Operational Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2008-06-29thematic
Metropolitan Police Service Inspection of resource leverage
- Overall Effectiveness:Adequate
- 2008-04-29force-specific
Islington – Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Custody Conditions:Requires Improvement
- Detainee Welfare:Requires Improvement
- 2008-02-29force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Ealing Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Ealing Basic Command Unit:Requires Improvement
- 2008-02-29force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Lewisham Basic Operational Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall performance:Good
- Public engagement:Outstanding
- 2006-10-31force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Bromley Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Leadership:Good
- 2006-08-30force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Haringey Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2006-06-29force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Newham Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Operational Effectiveness:Adequate
- 2006-02-28force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Camden Basic Operational Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2006-02-28force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Croydon Basic Command Unit inspection
- Effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2006-01-31force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Kingston Upon Thames Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall performance:Adequate
- Leadership:Good
- Community engagement:Requires Improvement
- 2005-03-30force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Bromley Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2005-03-30force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Sutton Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Performance:Adequate
- Public Engagement:Good
- Response to Crime:Requires Improvement
- 2005-02-28force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Islington Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Performance:Adequate
- 2005-01-31force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service Police National Computer compliance audit
- Overall Compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2004-12-31force-specific
Metropolitan Police Service, Enfield Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good