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Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy, PEEL, PEEL methodology  —  11 April 2025

This is our assessment framework for our police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (PEEL) programme for 2025-2027. We assess each police force in England and Wales, giving graded judgments across several core questions set out in this framework.

Publication  —  Anti-social behaviour, PEEL, Spotlight  —  10 October 2024

This report focuses on the police response to antisocial behaviour. It also highlights examples of positive practice and joint working between the police and other organisations to address antisocial behaviour.

Publication  —  PEEL, Regional Organised Crime Units, Serious and organised crime  —  30 August 2024

We inspected how police forces and regional organised crime units in the south-east of England work together to tackle serious organised crime. The police forces in this report are Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary, Surrey Police, Sussex Police and Thames Valley Police.

Publication  —  PEEL  —  6 December 2023

PEEL is HMICFRS’s assessment of police forces in England and Wales. PEEL stands for police effectiveness, efficiency, and legitimacy. This report sets out the findings for Thames Valley Police.

Publication  —  PEEL, Police performance, Spotlight  —  7 July 2023

This report focuses on the findings from our police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy 2021/22 inspection programme, which assesses the performance of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy, PEEL, PEEL methodology  —  8 February 2023

This is our assessment framework for our police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy (PEEL) programme for 2023-2025. We assess each police force in England and Wales, giving graded judgments across several core questions set out in this framework.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Ethics and accountability, Integrity and corruption, PEEL  —  17 November 2022

In July 2021, we inspected Thames Valley Police to examine the effectiveness of its vetting processes, IT monitoring and counter-corruption. 

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy, PEEL  —  28 April 2022

PEEL is HMICFRS’s assessment of police forces in England and Wales. PEEL stands for police effectiveness, efficiency, and legitimacy. This report sets out the findings for Thames Valley Police.

Publication  —  Collaboration, PEEL, Spotlight  —  21 July 2020

Many police forces across England and Wales collaborate with neighbouring forces to share resources and core functions. This report sets out our findings on how forces collaborate in order to provide better, more efficient services to the public.

Publication  —  PEEL, Spotlight, Thematic inspection  —  9 July 2020

The control room is one of the engine rooms of a police force. If it doesn’t have the right systems and processes in place, the force won’t have an accurate picture of demand. This will affect its ability to respond to calls and investigate crimes effectively.

In this report, our findings highlight the challenges that the police service face in handling calls with smaller budgets and fewer people.