Warwickshire Police

His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMI): Kathryn Stone is HMI for Warwickshire.

This force is in the Wales and Western HMICFRS policing region.

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About the force

HMICFRS’s assessment of Warwickshire Police

Our PEEL (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy), and other force assessments give you information about how your local police force has performed in several important areas.

In our latest assessments of Warwickshire Police, we made the following judgments:

Good	Adequate	Requires improvement	Inadequate
Recording data about crime	Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully	Protecting vulnerable people	Responding to the public
Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability	Investigating crime	Building, supporting and protecting the workforce
	Managing offenders and suspects	Leadership and force management
	Tackling workforce corruption	Tackling serious and organised crime

Read our other reports for Warwickshire Police

Warwickshire – National child protection inspection – August 2022
Report on an unannounced inspection visit to police custody suites in Warwickshire – February 2022

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

764 square miles

Population

0.584m people

7% local 10 yr change

Workforce

91% frontline police officers

92% national level

3.14 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

3% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.05 per person

0.06 national level

7% Local 5 year trend

9% National 5 year trend

Cost

52p per person per day local

59p per person per day national

About the force

Warwickshire Police provides policing services to the county of Warwickshire. The police force area covers 763 square miles in the west midlands of England.

Warwickshire is generally affluent.

Around 0.6 million people mainly live in the urban centres which include the towns of Warwick, Nuneaton and Rugby. The resident population is increased by university students and the large numbers who visit or travel through the area each year.

The transport infrastructure includes major rail stations.

More about this area – What Warwickshire Police says

Connect with Warwickshire Police

Warwickshire Police website

Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s Website