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Wiltshire Promotion Board Preparation

If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Wiltshire, 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

8 areas

Causes of concern

None

in the latest PEEL report

HMICFRS support level

Level One

Default position, as published 16 July 2026. What this means

Wiltshire HMICFRS snapshot

What the inspectors found

Wiltshire Police has made notable improvements since the last inspection, particularly in its use of powers, responsiveness to the public, and prevention work.

PEEL grades

  • Investigating crimeRequires improvement
  • Protecting vulnerableRequires improvement
  • WorkforceAdequate
  • LeadershipAdequate
  • Managing fraudAdequate
  • Responding to publicAdequate
  • Police powersGood
  • Preventing crimeGood

Areas for improvement

  • The force needs to show how it considers and evaluates the impact of changes to its processes, policies and procedures.
  • The force needs to improve its leadership standards, behaviour and culture to make sure there is a sense of trust and value within its organisation.
  • The force needs to make sure the professional development review is effective and personnel value it.
  • The force should make sure all personnel feel continuing professional development is relevant and useful and it should centrally record and monitor it.
  • The force needs to reduce the number of non-emergency calls that callers abandon because they aren't answered.
  • The force should make sure there is supervisory oversight of investigations to make sure that all appropriate investigative opportunities are taken.
Show the other 6 areas for improvement
  • The force should make sure victims are able to access their rights as laid out in the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime.
  • The force should make sure it has clear processes for monitoring protective orders and enforcing any breaches.
  • The force should make sure it has timely assessment, referral and notification systems that safeguard adults and children from harm.
  • The force needs to improve how it records crimes committed against victims of domestic abuse and reported incidents of rape.
  • The force should implement and fully establish fraud governance at a strategic level.
  • The force needs to effectively train personnel who receive calls from the public about fraud and those who investigate fraud offences.

12 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: Wiltshire’s inspection reports on the HMICFRS website.

In their own words

What Wiltshire says it is focused on

The inspection picture above is what HMICFRS found. These are the priorities Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire and Swindon. It is published under the name Making Wiltshire Safer. Stated aim: Making Wiltshire Safer to live, work and visit.

  • A police service that meets the needs of its communities
  • Reduce violence and serious harm
  • Tackle crimes that matter to local communities
  • Improve the experience of victims and deliver justice

Read the plan on the commissioner's website

Plans on a Page 2026 to 2027

Set by the Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police. They are published as two plans on a page, one for the Deputy Chief Constable and one for the Chief of Corporate Services. The priorities sit under the force's Strategic Plan 2024 to 2027. Stated aim: Keeping Wiltshire Safe.

  • Reduce and prevent VAWGCutting violence against women and girls, and stopping it before it happens.
  • Safer public spaces
  • Improved outcomes for victims

See the plans on the force's website

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.

Other HMICFRS inspections

Other published inspections of Wiltshire. Useful background, but the PEEL assessment above is the fuller picture.

What this means for your board

Wiltshire is graded Requires improvement for investigating crime and protecting vulnerable people. Its Police and Crime Plan 2025 to 2029 leads with the priority “A police service that meets the needs of its communities”. Your panel knows both without looking it up, and an example that speaks to either is one they will recognise.

A promotion board at Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire

You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Wiltshire’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 Wiltshire’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 Wiltshire board.

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State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Wiltshire, 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.

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