West Yorkshire Police

His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMI): Michelle Skeer is HMI for West Yorkshire.

This force is in the Northern HMICFRS policing region.

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About the force

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

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

Read our other reports for West Yorkshire Police

Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in West Yorkshire Police – February 2024

Key facts – 2019/20

Force Area

784 square miles

Population

2.35m people

6% local 10 yr change

Workforce

91% frontline police officers

92% national level

4.22 per 1000 population

3.69 national level

4% 10yr change in local workforce

5% 10yr national change

Victim-based crimes

0.08 per person

0.06 national level

9% 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

West Yorkshire Police provides policing services to the county of West Yorkshire. The police force area covers 783 square miles in the north of England.

Although there are a number of more affluent areas, West Yorkshire has a high level of poverty.

Around 2.3 million people mainly live in the urban conurbation which includes the cities of Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford, as well as several large towns surrounded by rural areas. The resident population is ethnically diverse, with 18 percent from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and is increased by the very large number of 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 and an airport.

More about this area – What West Yorkshire Police says

Connect with West Yorkshire Police

West Yorkshire Police website

West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s website