PEEL: Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) - A national overview
Summary
The extent to which a police force is successful at identifying, protecting and supporting those who are vulnerable is a core indicator of its overall effectiveness. In recognition of this, as part of its annual PEEL effectiveness inspection programme, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) graded all 43 police forces in England and Wales on how effectively they protect vulnerable people from harm and support victims. The inspection included a focus on how they respond to domestic abuse victims and missing and absent children, and how prepared they are to tackle child sexual exploitation.
This is the first time that we have graded forces on their effectiveness at protecting vulnerable people from harm (although HMIC has examined many aspects of vulnerability through a range of other inspections).
The national overview report summarises the top-line findings of this inspection, and sets out the grades (of outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate) given to each force. The force reports give the detailed inspection findings which led to these grades.
In addition, there are (or will be) other thematic reports based on the vulnerability inspection findings. These are:
- the thematic report on the police response to domestic abuse, Increasingly everyone’s business, which is a follow-up report to our 2014 report, Everyone’s business;
- reports published as part of HMIC’s rolling child protection inspection programme;
- the overarching PEEL effectiveness thematic report, due for publication in February 2016; and
- a thematic report on police management of cases of missing and absent children, and of child sexual exploitation, due for publication in spring 2016.
Get the national overview report
PEEL: Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – A national overview (PDF document)
Get the press release
Get the force reports
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Avon and Somerset Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Bedfordshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Cambridgeshire Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Cheshire Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – City of London Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Cleveland Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Cumbria Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Derbyshire Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Devon and Cornwall Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Dorset Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Durham Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Dyfed-Powys Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Essex Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Gloucestershire Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Greater Manchester Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Gwent Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Hampshire Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Hertfordshire Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Humberside Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Kent Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Lancashire Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Leicestershire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Lincolnshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Merseyside Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Metropolitan Police Service
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Norfolk Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – North Wales Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – North Yorkshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Northamptonshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Northumbria Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Nottinghamshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – South Wales Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – South Yorkshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Staffordshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Suffolk Constabulary
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Surrey Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Sussex Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Thames Valley Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Warwickshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – West Mercia Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – West Midlands Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – West Yorkshire Police
Police effectiveness 2015 (vulnerability) – Wiltshire Police
Get the police and crime commissioners’ responses to the report
Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Cheshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Cumbria police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Dyfed-Powys police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Essex police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Hampshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Humberside police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Lancashire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Merseyside police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Northumbria police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’
Warwickshire police and crime commissioner’s response to ‘Police effectiveness 2015 (Vulnerability)’