South Wales Police

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

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

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

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

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

Read our other reports for South Wales Police

Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in South Wales Police – October 2023

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

803 square miles

Population

1.35m people

5% local 10 yr change

Workforce

89% frontline police officers

92% national level

4.16 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

9% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.06 per person

0.06 national level

2% 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

South Wales Police provides policing services to the areas of West, South and Mid-Glamorgan. The police force area covers 803 square miles with approximately 150 miles of coastline in the south of Wales.

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

Around 1.3 million people mainly live in the urban centres which include the cities of Cardiff and Swansea as well as smaller towns. The resident population is increased by university students and the large numbers who visit, socialise in, commute into, or travel through the area each year.

The transport infrastructure includes major rail stations, air and sea ports.

More about this area – What South Wales Police says

Connect with South Wales Police

South Wales Police website

South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner’s website