Surrey Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Surrey, your panel already knows your force’s inspection picture. Here’s what that means for you, and how State6 builds it into your preparation.
Surrey HMICFRS snapshot
Most recent PEEL inspection: 2025-27 PEEL assessment
Surrey Police was inspected in 2025 as part of the PEEL 2025-27 cycle. The force has improved its response to the public and its use of police powers since the previous inspection, and performs well in preventing crime, safeguarding and using powers fairly.
PEEL grades
- Workforce: requires improvement
- Leadership: requires improvement
- Police powers: good
- Managing fraud: requires improvement
- Preventing crime: good
- Investigating crime: requires improvement
- Responding to public: adequate
- Protecting vulnerable: adequate
Areas for improvement
- The force needs to make sure it clearly communicates its decisions and reasons for making changes and that the workforce understands them.
- The force needs to make sure that its operating model can meet current and future demand.
- The force needs to make sure it is using data and technology to improve productivity.
- The force needs to fully understand how demand is affecting the well-being of its workforce.
- The force needs a clear strategy for equality, diversity and inclusion.
- The force should make sure it provides regular continuing professional development opportunities to all its workforce.
Plus 11 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.
Recent inspection activity
Inspections published since the last full PEEL assessment. These are often the most current picture of Surrey, and the areas your panel is most likely to be conscious of right now.
Integrity inspection · 30 May 2025
A report into the effectiveness of integrity arrangements in Surrey Police
Surrey Police received the following grades: Vetting police officers and staff - Requires improvement; Upholding the standards of professional behaviour - Requires improvement; Tackling potential corruption - Good.
What this means for your board
A promotion board at Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Surrey
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Surrey’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 Surrey’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 Surrey 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 Surrey, the College of Policing or HMICFRS. Inspection findings are summarised from the publicly available HMICFRS PEEL reports.