PEEL: Police leadership 2017

Published on: 8 February 2018

Publication types: Leadership and PEEL

Police Forces: All local forces in England and Wales

Summary

In PEEL 2017 (our annual all-force assessment), leadership was assessed at a force level as part of the efficiency and legitimacy reports (published in autumn 2017), and effectiveness reports (to be published in spring 2018). This report pulls together the findings on leadership from these inspections, and provides a national overview.

Leadership, both as a skill and as a way of thinking, is important at every level of policing; it does not only apply at the most senior levels.

Through our inspections, we assessed how forces develop and show good leadership throughout policing, not just whether senior members of the workforce are good leaders.

The leadership assessment focused on the following themes:

  • fair and ethical leadership (also known as organisational justice);
  • overseeing cultural change – increasing diversity and innovation;
  • workforce development; and
  • taking effective action.

Get the national overview report

PEEL: police leadership 2017 – a national overview (PDF document)

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Skills gap threatens to leave tomorrow’s police forces short

Get the force reports

The force-level leadership findings are available on the following web pages, as part of the wider PEEL 2017 assessment.

Avon and Somerset Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Bedfordshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Cambridgeshire Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Cheshire Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

City of London Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Cleveland Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Cumbria Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Derbyshire Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Devon and Cornwall Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Dorset Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Durham Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Dyfed-Powys Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Essex Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Gloucestershire Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Greater Manchester Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Gwent Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Hampshire Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Hertfordshire Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Humberside Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Kent Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Lancashire Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Leicestershire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Lincolnshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Merseyside Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Metropolitan Police Service – PEEL 2017 assessment

Norfolk Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

North Wales Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

North Yorkshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Northamptonshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Northumbria Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Nottinghamshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

South Wales Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

South Yorkshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Staffordshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Suffolk Constabulary – PEEL 2017 assessment

Surrey Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Sussex Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Thames Valley Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Warwickshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

West Mercia Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

West Midlands Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

West Yorkshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

Wiltshire Police – PEEL 2017 assessment

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