Lancashire Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Lancashire, 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
5 December 2024
2023-25 PEEL inspection
Grades
9 areas
Causes of concern
None
in the latest PEEL report
Lancashire HMICFRS snapshot
What the inspectors found
Lancashire was graded outstanding for preventing and deterring crime in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection, with good grades for data recording, police powers, managing offenders, workforce, and leadership.
PEEL grades
- Protecting vulnerableRequires improvement
- Investigating crimeAdequate
- Responding to publicAdequate
- WorkforceGood
- LeadershipGood
- Police powersGood
- Recording dataGood
- Managing offendersGood
- Preventing crimeOutstanding
Areas for improvement
- The constabulary needs to improve how it records equality data
- The constabulary needs to improve how it records crime when antisocial behaviour personal is reported
- The constabulary needs to effectively risk assess reports made on its public engagement portal, and deal with them in a timely way, to safeguard vulnerable victims and record crimes within 24 hours
- The constabulary needs to address the backlog in crimes awaiting quality assurance so investigations are appropriately allocated to the investigating officer and victims receive timely justice
- The constabulary doesn't consistently achieve appropriate outcomes for victims
- The constabulary needs to respond to challenges relating to vulnerability, including gaps in training, and to oversee the effect these challenges have on the way it serves its communities
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- The constabulary should make sure it has sufficient resources for the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, to make sure disclosures are made within statutory timeframes and meet victims' safeguarding requirements
- The constabulary needs to make sure it manages risk assessments and referrals of vulnerable adults and children to partner organisations promptly, so they are adequately protected
8 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: Lancashire’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.
In their own words
What Lancashire says it is focused on
The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities Lancashire and its commissioner have set for themselves, and the people on your panel work to them every day.
Police and Crime Plan 2024 to 2029
Set by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire. It is published under the name Safety Through Strength.
Read the plan on the commissioner's website
Plan on a Page
Set by Lancashire Constabulary. It was refreshed in early 2025 and its four pillars are printed in the force's annual report for 2025 to 2026.
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 20 September 2026.
What this means for your board
Lancashire is graded Requires improvement for protecting vulnerable people. Its Police and Crime Plan 2024 to 2029 leads with the priority “Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)”. Your panel knows both without looking it up, and an example that speaks to either is one they will recognise.
A promotion board at Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Lancashire’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 Lancashire’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 Lancashire board.
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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Lancashire, 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.