West Yorkshire Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
outstanding
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Recording data about crime
- outstanding
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- adequate
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Responding to the public
- adequate
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people
- adequate
- Managing offenders and suspects
- adequate
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for West Yorkshire 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)
- 2022-07-27thematic
Effectiveness, efficiency and people 2021/22 – West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- People:Good
- 2021-11-24peel
PEEL 2021/22 – An inspection of West Yorkshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2020-02-07peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – West Yorkshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – West Yorkshire Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Crime Prevention:Good
- Investigation of Crime:Requires Improvement
- Protection of Vulnerable People:Good
- Tackling Serious and Organized Crime:Good
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2011-07-21thematic
West Yorkshire, Valuing the Police preparedness inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Adequate
- 2011-07-20force-specific
West Yorkshire - Joint inspection of police custody suites follow-up visit
- Custody Suites:Requires Improvement
- 2010-09-22force-specific
West Yorkshire Anti-social behaviour inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Leadership:Requires Improvement
- 2008-08-30thematic
West Yorkshire Phase 2, neighbourhood policing/citizen focus
- Neighbourhood Policing:Good
- Citizen Focus:Requires Improvement
- 2007-01-31force-specific
West Yorkshire, Kirklees Basic Command Unit inspection follow-up
- Overall Effectiveness:Good