Surrey 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
- Recording data about crime
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- inadequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- good
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- 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 Surrey 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)
- 2025-05-30thematic
A report into the effectiveness of integrity arrangements in Surrey Police
- Vetting:Good
- Professional Standards:Outstanding
- Counter-Corruption:Adequate
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-02-02force-specific
Report on an unannounced inspection visit to police custody suites in Surrey
- Custody Services:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-09-27peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Surrey Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – Surrey Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2017-02-02force-specific
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit – Surrey Police
- Overall compliance with the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme:Requires Improvement
- 2016-12-08peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Surrey Police
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-11-03peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2016 - Surrey Police
- Efficiency:Good
- 2016-07-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) revisit - Surrey Police
- Overall effectiveness:Inadequate
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Surrey Police
- Overall Legitimacy:Inadequate
- 2015-12-15peel
Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability) – Surrey Police
- Overall effectiveness at protecting vulnerable individuals:Inadequate
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2010-06-17thematic
Surrey - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Custody Suites - Overall:Requires Improvement
- 2004-12-31force-specific
Surrey, North West Surrey Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall performance:Requires Improvement