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.
North Wales HMICFRS snapshot
Most recent PEEL inspection: 2023-25 PEEL inspection
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
- Workforce: Good
- Leadership: Requires improvement
- Police powers: Adequate
- Recording data: Outstanding
- Preventing crime: Adequate
- Managing offenders: Adequate
- Investigating crime: Requires improvement
- Responding to public: Adequate
- Protecting vulnerable: Requires improvement
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
Plus 10 more areas identified in the full inspection. Inside State6, each is mapped to the CVF competencies it affects, so you know exactly what to evidence.
What this means for your board
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.
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.
Prepare for your North Wales board
Practice questions, AI board reviews and your force’s inspection picture, all in one place. Choose a plan and start building today.
Get started with State6 →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.