North Wales Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at North Wales, 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
North Wales HMICFRS snapshot
What the inspectors found
North Wales was graded outstanding for data recording in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection, with a good grade for workforce. The force requires improvement in investigating crime, protecting vulnerable people, and leadership. Remaining areas were adequate.
PEEL grades
- LeadershipRequires improvement
- Investigating crimeRequires improvement
- Protecting vulnerableRequires improvement
- Police powersAdequate
- Preventing crimeAdequate
- Managing offendersAdequate
- Responding to publicAdequate
- WorkforceGood
- Recording dataOutstanding
Areas for improvement
- The force needs to improve how it records equality data
- The force needs to make sure officers accurately record use of force, including its justification. It should work to reduce the number of officer injuries and make sure body-worn video is used consistently
- The force should make sure that its independent scrutiny panel is able to effectively review the use of police powers
- The force should improve its approach to problem-solving plans and make sure that good practice is effectively shared across the organisation
- The force should make sure that call takers give appropriate advice on preserving evidence and preventing crime
- The force needs to improve how quickly it responds to incidents and make sure the caller is updated when there are delays
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- The force doesn't consistently achieve appropriate outcomes for victims
- The force needs to make sure it complies with all the requirements of the Victims' Code
- The force should make sure it completes quality risk assessments for every domestic abuse-related incident, and that they reflect the needs of the victim and those connected to the victim
- The force should improve its governance processes and the way it uses performance data to give a better service to vulnerable people
- The force needs to make sure it responds to Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme requests for information within national time frames
- The force needs to improve its governance of pre-charge bail
- The force needs to make sure that bail is always considered as a safeguarding measure in online child sexual abuse cases
- The force should make sure that it can hold leaders at all levels to account for their performance
- The force should make sure its operating model and workforce plan help it to respond to current and future demand
- The force should improve its productivity through digital, data and technological solutions
16 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: North Wales’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.
In their own words
What North Wales says it is focused on
The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities North Wales and its commissioner have set for themselves, and the people on your panel work to them every day.
Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2028
Set by the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Wales. It is also published in Welsh and in British Sign Language.
- A local neighbourhood policing presence
- Supporting victims, communities and businesses
- A fair and effective criminal 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
North Wales is graded Requires improvement for leadership, investigating crime and protecting vulnerable people. Its Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2028 leads with the priority “A local neighbourhood policing presence”. Your panel knows both without looking it up, and an example that speaks to either is one they will recognise.
A promotion board at North Wales 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 North Wales 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 North Wales
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. North Wales’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 North Wales’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 North Wales board.
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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to North Wales, 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.