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Thames Valley Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating

HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.

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Overall rating

requires improvement

Inspection cycle: 2023-2025

Per-pillar ratings

Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
good
Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
adequate
Responding to the public
requires improvement
Investigating crime
requires improvement
Protecting vulnerable people
inadequate
Managing offenders and suspects
requires improvement
Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
adequate
Leadership and force management
requires improvement

Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

Full inspection history

Every published HMICFRS inspection for Thames Valley 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)

  1. 2022-11-17peel

    A report into the effectiveness of vetting and counter-corruption arrangements in Thames Valley Police

    • Vetting Processes:Good
    • IT Monitoring:Adequate
    • Counter-Corruption:Requires Improvement
    View report on HMICFRS
  2. 2022-04-28peel

    PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of Thames Valley Police

    • Effectiveness:Good
    • Efficiency:Good
    • Legitimacy:Good
    View report on HMICFRS

PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)

  1. 2019-09-27peel

    PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Thames Valley Police

    • Effectiveness:Good
    • Efficiency:Good
    • Legitimacy:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  2. 2018-03-22peel

    PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Thames Valley Police

    • Overall Effectiveness:Good
    • Prevention:Good
    • Investigation:Good
    • Protection of Vulnerable Individuals:Good
    • Serious and Organized Crime:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  3. 2016-12-08peel

    PEEL: police legitimacy 2016 - Thames Valley Police

    • Legitimacy:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  4. 2016-02-18peel

    Police effectiveness 2015 – Thames Valley Police

    • Overall effectiveness:Good
    View report on HMICFRS

Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)

  1. 2011-07-21value-for-money

    Thames Valley, Valuing the Police preparedness inspection

    • Overall preparedness:Good
    View report on HMICFRS
  2. 2006-11-30force-specific

    Thames Valley, Milton Keynes Basic Command Unit inspection

    • Overall Effectiveness:Good
    • Service Delivery:Adequate
    • Community Engagement:Outstanding
    View report on HMICFRS
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