Durham Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Durham, your panel already knows your force’s inspection picture. Here’s what that means for you, and how State6 builds it into your preparation.
Durham HMICFRS snapshot
Most recent PEEL inspection: 2023-25 PEEL inspection
Durham was graded good for data recording and preventing crime in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection, but requires improvement in responding to the public and protecting vulnerable people. All other areas were graded adequate.
PEEL grades
- Workforce: Adequate
- Leadership: Adequate
- Police powers: Adequate
- Recording data: Good
- Preventing crime: Good
- Managing offenders: Adequate
- Investigating crime: Adequate
- Responding to public: Requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable: Requires improvement
Areas for improvement
- The constabulary needs to improve how it records equality data
- The constabulary needs to improve the time it takes to record crimes
- The constabulary needs to improve how it records crime when 'antisocial behaviour personal' is reported
- The constabulary needs to improve its training to make sure that officers understand and use stop and search powers fairly and appropriately
- The constabulary needs to improve the effectiveness of its internal and external scrutiny of officers' use of stop and search powers
- The constabulary needs to make sure it answers calls quickly enough
Plus 14 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 Durham, and the areas your panel is most likely to be conscious of right now.
Child protection inspection · 14 May 2026
Durham Constabulary: National child protection inspection
Durham Constabulary is good at working with safeguarding partners and responding to children at risk of harm. It is adequate at leadership of child protection arrangements, and risk assessment and referrals.
Integrity inspection · 26 February 2026
A report into the effectiveness of integrity arrangements in Durham Constabulary
Durham Constabulary received grades of Inadequate for vetting police officers and staff, Requires improvement for upholding the standards of professional behaviour, and Inadequate for tackling potential corruption.
What this means for your board
A promotion board at Durham 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 Durham 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 Durham
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Durham’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 Durham’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 Durham 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 Durham, the College of Policing or HMICFRS. Inspection findings are summarised from the publicly available HMICFRS PEEL reports.