North Wales Police

His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMI): Michelle Skeer is temporary HMI for North Wales.

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

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About the force

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

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

Eithriadol	Da	Digonol	Angen gwella	Annigonol
Cofnodi data am droseddu	Adeiladu, cefnogi ac amddiffyn y gweithlu	Pwerau’r heddlu a thrin y cyhoedd yn deg ac yn barchus	Ymchwilio i droseddau	Aflonyddu ar droseddau difrifol a chyfundrefnol
		Ataliaeth ac atal troseddu ac ymddygiad gwrthgymdeithasol, a lleihau bregusrwydd	Amddiffyn pobl fregus
		Ymateb i’r cyhoedd	Arweinyddiaeth a rheoli’r llu
		Rheoli troseddwyr a’r rhai dan amheuaeth
		Mynd i'r afael â llygredd y gweithlu

Read our other reports for North Wales Police

Report on an unannounced inspection visit to police custody suites in North Wales – April 2022
Adroddiad ar ymweliad arolygu dirybudd â dalfeydd yr heddlu yn Gogledd Cymru – April 2022
North Wales – National child protection inspection post-inspection review – August 2021

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

2,385 square miles

Population

0.703m people

3% local 10 yr change

Workforce

95% frontline police officers

92% national level

3.94 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

8% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.06 per person

0.06 national level

27% Local 5 year trend

9% National 5 year trend

Cost

66p per person per day local

59p per person per day national

About the force

North Wales Police provides policing services to the areas of Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham. The police force area covers 2,375 square miles with approximately 450 miles of coastline in the north of Wales.

Although there are some more affluent areas, North Wales has a high level of poverty.

Around 0.7 million people live in the predominantly rural setting. Its several distinct and small urban areas include the town of Wrexham. The resident population is increased by university students and the very large numbers who visit or travel through the area each year.

The transport infrastructure also includes a major sea port.

More about this area – What North Wales Police says

Connect with North Wales Police

North Wales Police website

North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner’s website