Hampshire Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Hampshire, 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
24 July 2025
2023-25 PEEL inspection
Grades
8 areas
Causes of concern
None
in the latest PEEL report
Hampshire HMICFRS snapshot
What the inspectors found
Hampshire and Isle of Wight was graded adequate across most areas in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection, with good grades for protecting vulnerable people and building the workforce. No areas require improvement or were graded inadequate.
PEEL grades
- LeadershipAdequate
- Police powersAdequate
- Preventing crimeAdequate
- Managing offendersAdequate
- Investigating crimeAdequate
- Responding to publicAdequate
- WorkforceGood
- Protecting vulnerableGood
Areas for improvement
- The constabulary needs to improve officer awareness of reasonable grounds to make sure they are using stop and search powers fairly
- The constabulary needs to increase the capacity of its public and personal safety training provision
- To protect neighbourhood policing activity, the constabulary needs to reduce crime workloads of neighbourhood officers and the number diverted from their core duties
- The constabulary needs to attend calls for service in line with its internal targets and update the caller if there are delays in attendance
- The constabulary needs to make sure there is effective supervision of deployment decisions, especially in its use of video technology
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary doesn't consistently achieve appropriate outcomes for victims
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- The constabulary should improve its governance of the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme to make sure disclosure outcomes are accurately recorded on its systems
- The constabulary has improved its management of failure to appear at court arrest warrants but needs to do more to find and arrest those offenders
- The constabulary has an effective process for scrutinising performance but needs to make sure data is used correctly to support the process
- The constabulary needs to improve the functionality of its operating model to better manage demand
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: Hampshire’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.
In their own words
What Hampshire says it is focused on
The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities Hampshire and its commissioner have set for themselves, and the people on your panel work to them every day.
Police and Crime Plan 2024 to 2028
Set by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and Isle of Wight. It is published under the name More Police, Safer Streets 2.
- Police Visibility and EngagementMore officers, more Local Bobbies and more police stations open to the public, with better feedback for people who report a crime.
- Business and Retail Crime
- Crime in Rural Areas
- Road Safety
- Serious Violence
- Anti-Social Behaviour
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 7 October 2026.
What this means for your board
The Police and Crime Plan 2024 to 2028 leads with the priority “Police Visibility and Engagement”. Your panel knows this without looking it up, and an example that speaks to it is one they will recognise.
A promotion board at Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Hampshire’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 Hampshire’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 Hampshire board.
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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Hampshire, 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.