Dyfed-Powys Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Dyfed-Powys, your panel already knows your force’s inspection picture. Here’s what that means for you, and how State6 builds it into your preparation.
PEEL report
9 October 2026
2025-27 PEEL assessment
Grades
9 areas
Causes of concern
None
in the latest PEEL report
Dyfed-Powys HMICFRS snapshot
What the inspectors found
Dyfed-Powys Police was assessed across nine areas of policing in the 2025-27 PEEL inspection. The force demonstrated good performance in attracting and retaining a diverse workforce, using powers fairly, preventing crime, and responding to the public, but requires improvement in…
PEEL grades
- Investigating crimeRequires improvement
- CustodyAdequate
- LeadershipAdequate
- Managing fraudAdequate
- Protecting vulnerableAdequate
- WorkforceGood
- Police powersGood
- Preventing crimeGood
- Responding to publicGood
Areas for improvement
- The force needs to make sure that its operating model enables it to manage current and future demand.
- The force should make sure there is supervisory oversight of investigations and that officers take all investigative opportunities.
- The force should make sure that it consistently assigns the correct crime outcome type.
- The force should make sure victims are informed of the investigation outcome.
- The force should make sure it complies with national guidance in respect of the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme.
- The force should improve how it records rape crimes from reported incidents of rape.
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- The force needs to make referrals to Report Fraud in line with national guidance.
- The force needs to improve the standard of fraud investigations.
- The force should improve its governance and quality assurance processes to manage the safety and well-being of detainees.
- The force needs to improve handover and key management processes.
10 areas were identified in the full inspection. Inside State6, each is mapped to the CVF competencies it affects, so you know exactly what to evidence.
Source: Dyfed-Powys’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.
In their own words
What Dyfed-Powys says it is focused on
The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities Dyfed-Powys and its commissioner have set for themselves, and the people on your panel work to them every day.
Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2029
Set by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed-Powys. The plan carries the subtitle Improving Trust and Confidence in Local Policing. It is the commissioner's third plan and was launched in February 2025.
- Supporting Victims and Preventing Victimisation
- Supporting Safe Communities by Preventing Harm
- Supporting a More Effective Justice System
Use these to choose which of your examples to tell, not as phrases to recite. An answer about a team problem lands harder when the panel can see it serves something the force has already said matters.
Priority names are the publishers’ own headings. The summaries are ours. Checked against the published documents on 21 September 2026.
What this means for your board
Dyfed-Powys is graded Requires improvement for investigating crime. Its Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2029 leads with the priority “Supporting Victims and Preventing Victimisation”. Your panel knows both without looking it up, and an example that speaks to either is one they will recognise.
A promotion board at Dyfed-Powys 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 Dyfed-Powys 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, or compare every force’s PEEL grades side by side.
How State6 prepares you for Dyfed-Powys
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Dyfed-Powys’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 Dyfed-Powys’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.
Prefer to start free? Our free promotion board question bank gives you real questions for every CVF area at sergeant, inspector and chief inspector level, free to download as you prepare for your Dyfed-Powys board.
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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Dyfed-Powys, the College of Policing or HMICFRS. Inspection findings are summarised from the publicly available HMICFRS PEEL reports.
HMICFRS inspection data: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.