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Publication  —  Cause of concern, Letter, PEEL  —  31 October 2023

During our inspection of West Mercia Police between 6 September 2021 and 1 October 2021, we identified a cause of concern. This letter provides an update on our findings following a revisit in July 2023.

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 September 2021, we inspected West Mercia Police to examine the effectiveness of the force’s vetting, IT monitoring and counter-corruption. 

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy, PEEL  —  13 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 West Mercia 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.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy, PEEL  —  7 February 2020

Like previous PEEL spotlight reports, this report gives an overview of the themes from the 2018/19 PEEL (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy) inspections. With the publication of the final 14 force reports from our third tranche of inspections, this report reflects on findings from all 43 force inspections to draw together national themes in policing.

Publication  —  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Legitimacy, PEEL, Spotlight  —  27 September 2019

This report gives an overview of the emerging themes from the second group of 2018/19 PEEL (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy) inspections. These themes are based on findings from 15 police force reports.

Publication  —  Legitimacy, PEEL, Spotlight  —  27 September 2019

This report provides a national picture of abuse of position for a sexual purpose in police forces, drawing on the finalised findings from the 29 forces in the first two tranches of our integrated PEEL assessments, and the early findings from the third and final tranche of forces.