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Kent Police

His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMI): Roy Wilsher is HMI for Kent.

This force is in the Eastern HMICFRS policing region.

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

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

Read our other reports for Kent Police

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

1,444 square miles

Population

1.87m people
9% local 10 yr change

Workforce

94% frontline police officers
92% national level
3.56 per 1000 population
3.69 national level
2% 10yr change in local workforce
5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.08 per person
0.06 national level
33% Local 5 year trend
9% National 5 year trend

Cost

49p per person per day local
59p per person per day national

These are the latest key facts about Kent Police.

About the force

Kent Police provides policing services to the areas of Kent and Medway. The police force area covers 1,443 square miles with approximately 340 miles of coastline in the south east of England.

Although there are some areas of deprivation, Kent is generally affluent.

Around 1.8 million people mainly live in the urban centres which include the city of Canterbury as well as the towns of Maidstone, Gravesend, Ashford, Margate, Dartford and Folkestone. The resident population is increased by university students and the very large numbers who visit or travel through the county each year.

The transport infrastructure also includes major rail stations, the channel tunnel and major sea ports.

More about this area – What Kent Police says

Connect with Kent Police

Kent Police website

Kent Police and Crime Commissioner’s website

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