West Midlands Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
inadequate
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Investigating crime
- inadequate
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- adequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- requires improvement
- Leadership and force management
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- inadequate
- Protecting vulnerable people
- inadequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for West Midlands 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)
- 2024-09-18PEEL
West Midlands Police: return to default phase of monitoring
- Multi-agency risk assessment conferences:Requires Improvement
- Management of registered sex offenders:Requires Improvement
- Management of online child abuse offender risks:Requires Improvement
- Effectiveness of investigations:Requires Improvement
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-05-02peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – West Midlands Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2017-03-02peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2016 – West Midlands Police
- Prevention of crime:Good
- Investigating crime:Good
- Protecting vulnerable people:Good
- Tackling serious and organized crime:Good
- Specialist capabilities:Good
- 2016-11-03peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2016 - West Midlands Police
- Efficiency:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – West Midlands Police
- Overall effectiveness:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2011-08-01thematic
West Midlands – value for money profile
- Financial management:Requires Improvement
- Resource allocation:Adequate
- 2011-03-17thematic
West Midlands - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Overall effectiveness:Requires Improvement
- 2010-01-30peel
West Midlands Policing pledge revisit
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- 2009-10-12thematic
West Midlands Policing pledge
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2005-06-29force-specific
West Midlands, Stechford Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall performance:Adequate
- 2005-01-31force-specific
West Midlands, Solihull Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall performance:Good