Greater Manchester Police

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

This force is in the Northern HMICFRS policing region.

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About the force

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

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

Read our other reports for Greater Manchester Police

Greater Manchester – National child protection inspection – December 2024
Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in Greater Manchester – February 2023

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

493 square miles

Population

2.85m people

7% local 10 yr change

Workforce

89% frontline police officers

92% national level

3.94 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

10% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.08 per person

0.06 national level

10% Local 5 year trend

9% National 5 year trend

Cost

59p per person per day local

59p per person per day national

About the force

Greater Manchester Police provides policing services to the metropolitan area of Greater Manchester. The police force area covers 493 square miles in the north west of England.

Although there are areas of great affluence, Greater Manchester has a high level of poverty.

Around 2.8 million people live in an urban setting. This major conurbation includes Manchester and Salford, as well as the large surrounding towns. The residential population is ethnically diverse, with 16 percent from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and is increased by very large numbers of university students and the large numbers who visit, socialise in, commute into, or travel through the region.

The transport infrastructure includes major rail stations and a major airport.

More about this area – What Greater Manchester Police says

Connect with Greater Manchester Police

Greater Manchester Police website

Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner’s website