North Wales 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
- Recording data about crime
- outstanding
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- requires improvement
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for North Wales 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)
- 2022-04-20force-specific
Report on an unannounced inspection visit to police custody suites in North Wales
- Custody Services:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2020-02-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – North Wales Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – North Wales Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2017-11-09peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2017 - North Wales Police
- Overall Efficiency:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – North Wales Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2017-02-02thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – North Wales Police
- Compliance with the BUSS scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - North Wales Police
- Overall Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – North Wales Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good