Derbyshire Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Derbyshire, your panel already knows your force’s inspection picture. Here’s what that means for you, and how State6 builds it into your preparation.
Derbyshire HMICFRS snapshot
Most recent PEEL inspection: 2023-25 PEEL inspection
Derbyshire requires improvement in four areas in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection: responding to the public, investigating crime, protecting vulnerable people, and leadership. The force was graded good only for preventing crime, with adequate grades elsewhere.
PEEL grades
- Workforce: Adequate
- Leadership: Requires improvement
- Police powers: Adequate
- Preventing crime: Good
- Managing offenders: Adequate
- Investigating crime: Requires improvement
- Responding to public: Requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable: Requires improvement
Areas for improvement
- The constabulary needs to improve its officers' confidence in using stop and search as an investigative tactic
- The constabulary needs to improve its training for recording the use of force, and better support officers to follow force policy and improve data quality
- The constabulary needs to improve the time it takes to answer emergency calls
- The constabulary should attend calls for service in line with its published attendance times, make sure that deployment decisions are supervised effectively and update the caller when there are delays
- The constabulary needs to better support officers to make the most of early evidence opportunities
- The constabulary doesn't consistently achieve appropriate outcomes for victims
Plus 10 more areas identified in the full inspection. Inside State6, each is mapped to the CVF competencies it affects, so you know exactly what to evidence.
Recent inspection activity
Inspections published since the last full PEEL assessment. These are often the most current picture of Derbyshire, and the areas your panel is most likely to be conscious of right now.
Accelerated cause of concern · 10 April 2026
Derbyshire Constabulary: accelerated cause of concern
HMICFRS issued an accelerated cause of concern to Derbyshire Constabulary because its response to incidents involving children was poor.
Integrity inspection · 22 January 2025
A report into the effectiveness of integrity arrangements in Derbyshire Constabulary
Derbyshire Constabulary received a grade of 'Adequate' in all three areas assessed: vetting police officers and staff, upholding the standards of professional behaviour, and tackling potential corruption.
What this means for your board
A promotion board at Derbyshire isn’t only assessing whether you can lead a team. It’s assessing whether you understand the force you’re asking to lead in, and where your leadership fits its priorities. Officers who connect their examples to what Derbyshire is actually focused on stand out. Officers who stay inside their own team don’t.
You don’t do this by quoting the inspection report. You do it by letting your force’s priorities shape the decisions in your answers. If you want the full method, read our guide on what HMICFRS grades mean for your promotion board.
How State6 prepares you for Derbyshire
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Derbyshire’s real HMICFRS picture is built into State6. The Question Bank shapes practice questions around it, and every AI Board Review weaves your force’s context into the feedback on your answers. You’re preparing for the board you’ll actually sit, at the force you’ll actually sit it in.
You can also sit a full voiced AI mock board calibrated to Derbyshire’s inspection picture, answering out loud while the panel listens, probes and scores you against the CVF 2024.
Calibrated to your target rank, too. See what panels look for at sergeant, inspector and chief inspector level.
Prepare for your Derbyshire board
Practice questions, AI board reviews and your force’s inspection picture, all in one place. Choose a plan and start building today.
Get started with State6 →State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Derbyshire, the College of Policing or HMICFRS. Inspection findings are summarised from the publicly available HMICFRS PEEL reports.