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This includes new, wholesale priorities to improve the service provided to victims of crime, improving the quality of investigations and identifying vulnerability.
The Police Efficiency, Effectiveness and Legitimacy (PEEL) report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) graded Wiltshire Police as ‘inadequate’ in its approach to strategic planning, its ability to respond to the public and its ability to protect vulnerable people.
It further described the Force as ‘requiring improvement’ in a number of other areas and made a series of recommendations of what we need to do to improve the service we provide.
As a result of the report, Wiltshire Police was placed into the HMICFRS ‘Engage’ process, part of which means the Chief Constable must provide regular updates on progress to the national oversight group.
The Chief Constable committed to providing regular updates to our communities in relation to the progress we are making.
Since the release of the report in July, the Force has put in place a number of core foundations to improve our service. These include:
We fully accepted the PEEL report, it’s findings and recommendations back in July and our whole organisation has been working tirelessly since then to create the foundations and environment to make necessary changes.
The PEEL report gave us an opportunity to reset the culture within the Force and for the Chief Constable to lay out, very clearly, his expectations of every officer, member of staff and volunteer and re-focus on the core role of policing.
Every member of our organisation now has a laser focus on improving the service provided to victims of crime, improving the quality of investigations and identifying vulnerability.
Our collective ambition is to return our service to the standard you expect.
In order to keep our communities informed of the progress being made in relation to the three areas graded as inadequate in the PEEL report, we’ve published a summary report on our website (LINK) which outlines recent steps made including:
Strategic planning
Supporting victims of crime
Investigations
Understanding & identifying vulnerability and protecting vulnerable people from harm
For the most up-to-date information on how the Force is responding to the PEEL report, visit the dedicated HMICFRS PEEL page on the Wiltshire Police website.