Nottinghamshire Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Nottinghamshire, 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
11 July 2024
2023-25 PEEL inspection
Grades
8 areas
Causes of concern
3
in the latest PEEL report
Nottinghamshire HMICFRS snapshot
What the inspectors found
Nottinghamshire was graded inadequate for preventing crime, investigating crime, and leadership in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection - three serious causes for concern. The force also requires improvement for protecting vulnerable people.
PEEL grades
- LeadershipInadequate
- Preventing crimeInadequate
- Investigating crimeInadequate
- Protecting vulnerableRequires improvement
- WorkforceAdequate
- Police powersAdequate
- Managing offendersAdequate
- Responding to publicAdequate
Causes of concern
- Preventing and deterring crime
- Investigating crime
- Leadership and force management
Areas for improvement
- The force should expand its independent scrutiny of stop and search and use of force
- The force should publish its stop and search data, including any indications of disproportionality and reasons for this
- The force needs to improve its systems and management processes to support effective problem-solving
- The force should improve the way it consults all its diverse communities to make sure their needs are identified and used to influence its priorities
- 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 that call takers give appropriate advice on preserving evidence and preventing crime
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- The force doesn't consistently achieve appropriate outcomes for victims
- The force should make sure it has a sustainable secondary review process for domestic abuse to provide prompt risk assessment and referral to support services for vulnerable victims
- The force should improve its processes for identifying breaches of preventative orders and taking enforcement action to keep victims safe
- The force should improve its management of the risk from registered sex offenders in order to keep the public safe
- The force needs to do more to support and develop personnel from under‑represented groups
- The force needs to improve the delivery of its strategies relating to well‑being and the workforce
- The force should make sure its leaders are visible to personnel at all levels so that they are appropriately supported and encouraged to improve performance
- The force needs to invest further in digital solutions to make some of its processes more efficient
14 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: Nottinghamshire’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.
In their own words
What Nottinghamshire says it is focused on
The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities Nottinghamshire and its commissioner 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 Police and Crime Commissioner for Nottinghamshire. It is published under the name A Safer Nottinghamshire For All. The commissioner also names three specific priorities within the plan: neighbourhood policing, violence against women and girls, and knife crime and serious violence. Stated aim: A Nottinghamshire where communities are safe, feel safe and have the highest levels of trust and confidence in local policing, community safety and criminal justice services.
- Communities and Victims FirstNeighbourhood policing that people can see and reach, better support for victims, action on anti-social behaviour, and more openness with communities.
- Strengthening Partnership WorkingPrevention with other agencies, protecting vulnerable people, a faster criminal justice system, and action on violence against women and girls and on knife crime.
- Effective and Resilient PolicingA better response when people call, investigations that solve more crime, and the resources, standards and value for money to back them.
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 7 October 2026.
Recent inspection activity
Inspections published since the last full PEEL assessment. These are often the most current picture of Nottinghamshire, and the areas your panel is most likely to be conscious of right now.
Cause of concern revisit · 4 April 2025
Nottinghamshire Police: PEEL causes of concern revisit letter
Two of the three causes of concern (leadership and force management; preventing and deterring crime) have been closed following sufficient progress. One cause of concern (investigations) remains open and under review.
What this means for your board
Nottinghamshire is graded Inadequate for leadership, preventing crime and investigating crime. Its Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2029 leads with the priority “Communities and Victims First”. Your panel knows both without looking it up, and an example that speaks to either is one they will recognise.
A promotion board at Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Nottinghamshire’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 Nottinghamshire’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 Nottinghamshire board.
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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Nottinghamshire, 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.