Northamptonshire Police — 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
- Recording data about crime
- outstanding
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- good
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Northamptonshire 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)
- 2021-11-24peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Northamptonshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-09-27peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Northamptonshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Northamptonshire Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Northamptonshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-02-18PEEL
Police effectiveness 2015 – Northamptonshire Police
- 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:Adequate
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Northamptonshire Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2013-07-12thematic
Northamptonshire Police Child Protection Arrangements
- Child Protection Arrangements:Inadequate
- 2009-10-12thematic
Northamptonshire Policing pledge
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Service delivery:Adequate
- 2007-01-31force-specific
Northamptonshire Police National Computer compliance audit
- Overall Compliance:Requires Improvement