Leicestershire Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Leicestershire, 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
8 areas
Causes of concern
None
in the latest PEEL report
Leicestershire HMICFRS snapshot
What the inspectors found
Leicestershire was graded good for police powers, preventing crime, managing offenders, and workforce in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection.
PEEL grades
- Investigating crimeRequires improvement
- Responding to publicRequires improvement
- LeadershipAdequate
- Protecting vulnerableAdequate
- WorkforceGood
- Police powersGood
- Preventing crimeGood
- Managing offendersGood
Areas for improvement
- The force needs to attend calls for service in line with its published attendance times and make sure the caller is updated if there are delays
- The force needs to make sure it records the structured triage approach accurately
- The force needs to provide appropriate evidence preservation advice to victims of crime
- Leicestershire Police needs to consistently achieve appropriate outcomes for victims
- The force needs to make sure it assesses the needs of all victims so they can be properly supported
- The force needs to make sure it assigns outcomes appropriately, to comply with policies and lead to satisfactory results for victims
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- The force needs to make sure processes are in place to proactively monitor protective orders and bail conditions
- The force must improve its review of risk assessments for standard risk domestic abuse incidents so these are accurate and involve timely referrals to support
- The force should make sure it is effective at managing demand and can show it has the right resources, structures and processes in place to meet demand across the force
- The force should reduce the number of acting or temporary managers it employs
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: Leicestershire’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.
In their own words
What Leicestershire says it is focused on
The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities Leicestershire 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 Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Stated aim: To see local communities, police, partners and public working together to make Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland safer, through a clear focus on crime prevention, bringing offenders to justice and supporting victims and witnesses.
- An Effective and Efficient Police Force
- Delivering for Victims and Witnesses
- Preventing and Tackling Crime and Harm
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
Leicestershire is graded Requires improvement for investigating crime and responding to the public. Its Police and Crime Plan 2024 to 2029 leads with the priority “An Effective and Efficient Police Force”. Your panel knows both without looking it up, and an example that speaks to either is one they will recognise.
A promotion board at Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Leicestershire’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 Leicestershire’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 Leicestershire board.
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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Leicestershire, 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.