Wiltshire Police — HMICFRS PEEL Rating
HMICFRS publishes inspection ratings for every UK force. This is the most recently published rating for this force.
Overall rating
Not separately graded
HMICFRS did not publish a single overall grade for this force in this inspection cycle. See the per-pillar grades below for the published assessment.
Inspection cycle: 2023-2025
Per-pillar ratings
- Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability
- good
- Recording data about crime
- adequate
- Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully
- requires improvement
- Managing offenders and suspects
- good
- Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
- adequate
- Responding to the public
- requires improvement
- Investigating crime
- requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable people
- requires improvement
- Leadership and force management
- adequate
Source: HMICFRS PEEL assessments
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Full inspection history
Every published HMICFRS inspection for Wiltshire 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)
- 2024-08-15PEEL
PEEL 2023–2025: An inspection of Wiltshire Police
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Adequate
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2023-09-15thematic
Wiltshire – National child protection inspection post-inspection review
- Child Protection Cases:Good
- Child Protection Cases:Requires Improvement
- Child Protection Cases:Inadequate
PEEL 2014–2020 (scale: Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate)
- 2019-05-02peel
PEEL: Police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2018/19 – Wiltshire Police
- Effectiveness:Good
- Efficiency:Good
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2018-03-22peel
PEEL: police effectiveness 2017 – Wiltshire Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- 2017-12-12peel
PEEL: police legitimacy 2017 - Wiltshire Police
- Legitimacy:Good
- 2016-11-03peel
PEEL: police efficiency 2016 - Wiltshire Police
- Efficiency:Good
- 2016-09-22revisit
Best Use of Stop and Search revisit - Wiltshire Police
- Best Use of Stop and Search compliance:Requires Improvement
- 2016-02-18peel
Police effectiveness 2015 – Wiltshire Police
- Overall Effectiveness:Good
- Preventing Crime:Good
- Investigating Crime:Requires Improvement
- Protecting Vulnerable People:Good
- Tackling Serious and Organised Crime:Good
- 2016-02-11peel
Police legitimacy 2015 – Wiltshire Police
- Overall Legitimacy:Requires Improvement
Baseline & thematic inspections (pre-PEEL)
- 2009-09-01force-specific
Wiltshire - Joint inspection of police custody suites
- Police Custody Suites:Requires Improvement
- 2007-03-30force-specific
Wiltshire, Swindon Basic Command Unit inspection
- Overall effectiveness:Good
- Leadership:Adequate
- Service delivery:Good
- Community engagement:Requires Improvement