Cleveland Police

His Majesty’s Chief Inspector (HMI): Michelle Skeer is HMI for Cleveland.

This force is in the Northern HMICFRS policing region.

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About the force

HMICFRS’s assessment of Cleveland 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 Cleveland Police, we made the following judgments:

Good	Adequate	Requires improvement	Inadequate
Police powers and treating the public fairly and respectfully	Responding to the public	Investigating crime	Responding to children at risk of harm
Preventing and deterring crime and antisocial behaviour, and reducing vulnerability	Leadership and force management	Protecting vulnerable people	Investigating child abuse, neglect and exploitation
Managing offenders and suspects	Working with safeguarding partners	Leadership of child protection arrangements
Building, supporting and protecting the workforce	Tackling workforce corruption	Risk assessment and referrals
	Disrupting serious organised crime

Read our other reports for Cleveland Police

Cleveland Police: National child protection inspection – January 2025
Report on an unannounced inspection visit to police custody suites in Cleveland Police – August 2021

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

231 square miles

Population

0.57m people

3% local 10 yr change

Workforce

92% frontline police officers

92% national level

4.00 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

10% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.09 per person

0.06 national level

16% Local 5 year trend

9% National 5 year trend

Cost

69p per person per day local

59p per person per day national

About the force

Cleveland Police is a geographically small force with a mix of densely populated areas with high levels of deprivation and some more affluent or rural areas. Several of the wards within its boundaries are among the most deprived in the country.

The force covers the four unitary authority areas of Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland.

More about this area – What Cleveland Police says

Connect with Cleveland Police

Cleveland Police website

Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner’s website