North Yorkshire Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at North Yorkshire, 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
22 April 2026
2025-27 PEEL assessment
Grades
9 areas
Causes of concern
None
in the latest PEEL report
North Yorkshire HMICFRS snapshot
What the inspectors found
North Yorkshire Police was assessed across nine areas of policing in the 2025-27 PEEL inspection. The force performed well in leadership, workforce development, use of powers, prevention, safeguarding and fraud, all graded good.
PEEL grades
- CustodyRequires improvement
- Investigating crimeAdequate
- Responding to publicAdequate
- WorkforceGood
- LeadershipGood
- Police powersGood
- Managing fraudGood
- Preventing crimeGood
- Protecting vulnerableGood
Areas for improvement
- The force needs to reduce the number of non-emergency calls that callers abandon because they aren't answered.
- The force should improve the management and supervision of 'priority 12' incidents.
- The force needs to make sure it complies with the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime.
- The force should make sure officers and staff use the new facility to record the justification for use of force.
- The force should make sure it records all crimes committed against vulnerable victims correctly.
- The force should have effective governance and quality assurance processes to manage the safety and well-being of detainees.
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- The force doesn't adequately protect the rights and entitlement of detainees who are children.
- The force should effectively assess, manage and regularly review risk throughout detention and on release.
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: North Yorkshire’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.
In their own words
What North Yorkshire says it is focused on
The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities North Yorkshire and its Mayor have set for themselves, and the people on your panel work to them every day.
Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2029
Set by the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire. The Mayor holds the policing, fire and crime functions for the area, together with a Deputy Mayor for Policing, Fire and Crime. Stated aim: York and North Yorkshire are safe places for all.
- Focus on Prevention and Early Intervention
- Protect the PublicTackling the crime types the public said matter most to them, and building trust and confidence in policing.
- Work with PartnersWorking with other agencies to find and protect the most vulnerable people, and to get victims of crime the support they need.
- Build Stronger CommunitiesMaking communities safer by policing proactively and working more closely with local organisations and residents.
Read the plan on the Mayor's policing, fire and crime website
Plan on a Page 2024 to 2029
Set by North Yorkshire Police. The plan is a single page setting out what the force does, what it has to be good at and what it has to invest in. The three listed here are what it says the force does. Stated aim: To provide an outstanding service to the people of York and North Yorkshire to keep them safe, and feeling safe.
- Prevent and reduce crime and antisocial behaviour
- Effectively respond to, investigate and solve crimes, and manage offenders
- Safeguard the vulnerable and support victims of crime
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 Yorkshire is graded Requires improvement for custody. Its Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2029 leads with the priority “Focus on Prevention and Early Intervention”. 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. North Yorkshire’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 Yorkshire’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.
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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to North Yorkshire, 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.