Sussex 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
- Responding to the public
- good
- Recording data about crime
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- 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 Sussex 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)
- 2026-01-16thematic
Sussex Police Response to Stalking
- Victim support:Adequate
- Reporting mechanisms:Requires Improvement
- 2025-05-30thematic
A report into the effectiveness of integrity arrangements in Sussex Police
- Vetting:Good
- Professional Standards:Adequate
- Counter-Corruption:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2020-02-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Sussex Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Sussex Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Sussex Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Preventing Crime:Good
- Investigating Crime:Requires Improvement
- Protecting Vulnerable People:Good
- Tackling Serious and Organised Crime:Good
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2011-06-02force-specific
Sussex - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall Inspection:Adequate
- 2010-09-22force-specific
Sussex Anti-social behaviour inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2010-01-30peel
Sussex Policing pledge revisit
- Overall Performance:Good
- 2009-10-12peel
Sussex Policing pledge
- Overall Performance:Good