South Yorkshire 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
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- adequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for South Yorkshire 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)
- 2025-07-24peel
PEEL 2023–2025: An inspection of South Yorkshire Police
- preventing crime:Good
- investigations:Requires Improvement
- 2023-02-02peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of South Yorkshire 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 – South Yorkshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-12-12peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - South Yorkshire Police
- Overall Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-10-05PEEL
Abuse of position assessment - South Yorkshire Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – South Yorkshire Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2017-02-02thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – South Yorkshire Police
- Compliance with the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – South Yorkshire 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:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – South Yorkshire Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-09-22thematic
South Yorkshire Anti-social behaviour inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Leadership:Good
- 2005-11-30force-specific
South Yorkshire, Sheffield Central Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Leadership:Good
- Support Services:Adequate
- Community Engagement:Requires Improvement