Thames Valley Police

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

This force is in the Eastern HMICFRS policing region.

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About the force

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

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

Read our other reports for Thames Valley Police

A report into the effectiveness of vetting and counter-corruption arrangements in Thames Valley Police – November 2022

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

2,218 square miles

Population

2.43m people

8% local 10 yr change

Workforce

92% frontline police officers

92% national level

3.22 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

2% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.05 per person

0.06 national level

8% Local 5 year trend

9% National 5 year trend

Cost

51p per person per day local

59p per person per day national

About the force

Thames Valley Police provides policing services to the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. The police force area covers 2,216 square miles in the south east of England.

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

Around 2.4 million people mainly live in the urban centres which include the city of Oxford and the towns of Milton Keynes, Reading, Aylesbury, Maidenhead and Slough. The resident population is ethnically diverse, with 15 percent from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and 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.

More about this area – What Thames Valley Police says

Connect with Thames Valley Police

Thames Valley Police website

Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner’s website