Staffordshire 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
- 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
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Staffordshire 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)
- 2024-09-18thematic
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2023–2025: Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Overall effectiveness:Outstanding
- Efficiency:Good
- People:Good
- Response to major incidents:Outstanding
- 2023-08-04force-specific
Staffordshire – National child protection re‑inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2020-02-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Staffordshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2019-12-17thematic
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2018/19 - Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- People:Good
- 2017-12-12peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - Staffordshire Police
- Overall Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-09-22thematic
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - Staffordshire Police
- Overall Compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2016-07-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) revisit - Staffordshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Inadequate
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Staffordshire Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – Staffordshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Inadequate
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2006-10-31force-specific
Staffordshire, Chase Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Service Delivery:Adequate