Northumbria 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
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- 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 Northumbria 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)
- 2022-09-22peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Northumbria Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2017-11-09peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2017 - Northumbria Police
- Overall Efficiency:Requires Improvement
- 2017-10-05peel
Abuse of position assessment - Northumbria Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Northumbria Police
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-11-03peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2016 - Northumbria Police
- Efficiency:Good
- 2016-09-22thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - Northumbria Police
- Compliance with the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Northumbria Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Preventing crime and anti-social behaviour:Good
- Investigating crime and managing offenders:Requires Improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people:Good
- Tackling serious and organised crime:Good
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – Northumbria Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Response to Vulnerability:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2009-10-12thematic
Northumbria Policing pledge
- Northumbria Policing:Good
- 2006-10-31force-specific
Northumbria, Sunderland Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall performance:Good
- 2005-12-31force-specific
Northumbria, Newcastle Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Operational Effectiveness:Good
- Community Engagement:Requires Improvement
- Incident Response:Adequate
- 2005-10-31force-specific
Northumbria, Sunderland Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Quality of service:Adequate
- Leadership:Outstanding
- 2005-01-31force-specific
Northumbria, Newcastle Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Adequate
- Service delivery:Good