West Mercia 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
- Recording data about crime
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Investigating crime
- adequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- requires improvement
- Leadership and force management
- requires improvement
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for West Mercia 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)
- 2025-09-01thematic
West Mercia Police Accelerated Cause of Concern
- Overall Effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- Service Delivery:Inadequate
Integrated PEEL 2021–22 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Adequate / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2022-04-13peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of West Mercia Police
- overall:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-09-27peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – West Mercia Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – West Mercia Police
- Preventing crime:Good
- Investigating crime:Good
- Protecting vulnerable individuals:Good
- Tackling serious and organized crime:Good
- Specialist capabilities:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – West Mercia Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 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:Good
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – West Mercia Police
- Legitimacy:Requires Improvement