The force needs to make sure that governance arrangements appropriately identify and resolve areas of risk and underperformance
PEEL 2025–27: An inspection of West Yorkshire Police
Published 3 June 2026PEEL Force Inspection0 recommendations32 areas for improvement
Coverage
Areas for improvement
The force needs to demonstrate how it understands and addresses the impact of change on its workforce
The force needs to make sure that its operating model can address current and future demand
The force should make sure it understands how its workforce perceives leadership behaviours
The force needs to make sure that effective systems are in place to monitor workloads and provide support to officers
The force needs to make sure that it creates an inclusive culture where staff feel a sense of belonging and are able to speak out
The force needs to improve the training and support it provides for trainee investigators
The force should review the processes and procedures in place in relation to officers in high-risk roles who are identified as requiring additional support to make sure that appropriate action and support is in place
The force should make sure that it has an effective occupational health unit with suitably trained staff, and reduce the time from referral to appointment
The force should make sure it provides regular continuing professional development opportunities to all its workforce
The force needs to make sure all officers have up-to-date public and personal safety training and that it has consistent processes in place to identify officers whose training has expired
The force should provide training for officers on how to safeguard children involved in stop and search or use of force incidents
The force should make sure its leadership and governance processes support a consistent approach to prevention activity
The force should do more to develop, quality assure and evaluate its problem-solving activity
The force needs to improve the supervision and governance of its integrated offender management teams, and provide them with relevant training
The force needs to attend calls for service in line with its published attendance times, update callers about delays and effectively supervise deployment decisions
The force needs to make sure that there is consistent and effective management of risk within its RE-THRIVE process
The force should make sure that its management and governance structures examine both qualitative and quantitative performance
The force should consistently provide safeguarding, evidence preservation and crime prevention advice at the first point of contact
The force should make sure that where deployment is delayed, risk is reassessed and the victim or caller updated
The force should make sure that crimes are allocated to appropriately skilled officers to achieve the outcomes victims deserve
The force should make sure there is supervisory oversight of investigations and that officers pursue all investigative opportunities
The force needs to make sure that it complies with the requirements of the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime
The force should make sure that it has processes that support officers to improve the quality of investigations
The force should make sure that it complies with statutory safeguarding processes to improve its response to children and adults at risk of harm
The force should make sure supervisors comply with its missing from home policy to make sure that missing people are identified and safeguarded
The force should apply consistent secondary risk assessment processes across all districts and provide a full picture, including cumulative risk, when sharing information about vulnerable children with children’s social care
The force needs to make sure that it has sufficient staffing, processes and governance for the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme and the Child Sex Offence Disclosure Scheme to ensure compliance with legislative process and required timescales
The force should do more to develop officers and staff in its safeguarding and domestic abuse teams, MASHs and patrol
The force needs to make sure it reviews fraud crimes so it allocates the most complex to experienced investigators and that investigators use the fraud investigation model
The force needs to adequately train investigators and call handlers
The force needs to identify and respond to vulnerable victims of fraud