Exam Pass Rate
By Force
A sortable table of the pass rate for every force in every sergeants' and inspectors' step-two sitting from March 2023 to May 2026, copied from the College of Policing's results overview PDFs, with the College's caution on comparing forces and a plain account of why a force figure is not a prediction for you.
Independent information, not advice · Sources checked 6 October 2026 · England and Wales unless stated
The printed rates differ a lot, but most forces send 20 to 100 candidates to a sitting, so a few results move a force's rate by several points, and the College says comparisons between forces should be done with caution. In March 2026 the sergeants' national rate was 58.5% and force rates ran from 40.8% (the Metropolitan Police Service, 1,148 candidates) to 85.5% (Thames Valley, 62 candidates) among forces whose counts were published. A force's rate is not a prediction for an individual.
The short answer
Yes, the published pass rates differ by force, and sometimes by a wide margin. The useful question is how much weight a difference can bear. Four things matter and each is explained below: how many people sat, how the College suppresses small numbers, what the College itself says about comparing forces, and what an average over a force can and cannot tell one officer.
| Sergeants, March 2026 | Inspectors, May 2026 | |
|---|---|---|
| Sat nationally | 3,215 | 1,739 |
| Passed nationally | 1,882 | 644 |
| National pass rate | 58.5% | 37.0% |
| Cut score applied | 55% | 65% |
| Forces listed | 43 | 43 |
| Forces with suppressed counts | 9 | 8 |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 1,148 sat, 468 passed, 40.8% | 530 sat, 126 passed, 23.8% |
Pass rate by force: the interactive table
Choose sergeants or inspectors, then either one sitting with every force (click a column heading to sort, or type part of a force name to filter) or one force across every sitting beside the national rate. Without JavaScript the table below shows the latest sergeants' sitting as a static table. The CSV button at the foot downloads every sitting from the same data.
| Bedfordshire | Suppressed | Suppressed | 80.0% (as published) |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Transport Police | 84 | 52 | 61.9% |
| Cambridgeshire | Suppressed | Suppressed | 76.9% (as published) |
| Cheshire | 43 | 32 | 74.4% |
| City of London | 40 | 25 | 62.5% |
| Cleveland | 45 | 27 | 60.0% |
| Cumbria | Suppressed | Suppressed | 73.3% (as published) |
| Derbyshire | 34 | 24 | 70.6% |
| Devon and Cornwall | 52 | 30 | 57.7% |
| Dorset | 29 | 16 | 55.2% |
| Durham | 30 | 18 | 60.0% |
| Dyfed-Powys | Suppressed | Suppressed | 84.6% (as published) |
| Essex | 89 | 50 | 56.2% |
| Gloucestershire | Suppressed | Suppressed | 77.8% (as published) |
| Greater Manchester | 139 | 98 | 70.5% |
| Gwent | 33 | 23 | 69.7% |
| Hampshire | 72 | 42 | 58.3% |
| Hertfordshire | 74 | 52 | 70.3% |
| Humberside | 63 | 39 | 61.9% |
| Kent | 73 | 54 | 74.0% |
| Lancashire | 71 | 42 | 59.2% |
| Leicestershire | 30 | 16 | 53.3% |
| Lincolnshire | Suppressed | Suppressed | 76.9% (as published) |
| Merseyside | 68 | 57 | 83.8% |
| Metropolitan Police Service | 1,148 | 468 | 40.8% |
| Norfolk | 22 | 15 | 68.2% |
| North Wales | Suppressed | Suppressed | 89.5% (as published) |
| North Yorkshire | 24 | 15 | 62.5% |
| Northamptonshire | 25 | 18 | 72.0% |
| Northumbria | 24 | 15 | 62.5% |
| Nottinghamshire | 41 | 26 | 63.4% |
| South Wales | 72 | 50 | 69.4% |
| South Yorkshire | 46 | 25 | 54.3% |
| Staffordshire | 45 | 37 | 82.2% |
| Suffolk | Suppressed | Suppressed | 88.9% (as published) |
| Surrey | 56 | 44 | 78.6% |
| Sussex | 72 | 42 | 58.3% |
| Thames Valley | 62 | 53 | 85.5% |
| Warwickshire | Suppressed | Suppressed | 100.0% (as published) |
| West Mercia | 33 | 26 | 78.8% |
| West Midlands | 166 | 113 | 68.1% |
| West Yorkshire | 95 | 67 | 70.5% |
| Wiltshire | 30 | 16 | 53.3% |
| Total (as printed by the College) | 3,215 | 1,882 | 58.5% |
9 of 43 listed forces have suppressed counts in this sitting. The unsuppressed rows add up to 3,030 sat and 1,727 passed, which is 185 and 155 short of the printed total because of the suppressed rows. We have not estimated the suppressed values. Source: College of Policing results overview, March 2026 (checked 6 October 2026).
College of Policing, March 2026 results overview: "Comparison between force pass rates should be done with caution, due to the differences in the number of candidates taking the examination per force."
Sources are the College of Policing results overview PDFs linked in the sources list, each opened on 6 October 2026. Counts the College suppressed are shown as suppressed. We recomputed every printed rate from its counts, and every one matched to one decimal place.
How to read the table
| Column | What it is | Care needed |
|---|---|---|
| Sat | The number of candidates from that force who attended the sitting, as the College prints it. | A force with 25 candidates and one with 1,148 are not equally informative. Check this column before the rate. |
| Passed | Candidates who met the cut score (55% sergeants, 65% inspectors), including those graded exceptional. | Each pass or fail is a person. In a small force one result moves the rate by several points. |
| Pass rate | Passed divided by sat. We recompute it to one decimal place and compare it with the printed rate. | Where the counts are suppressed we show the rate the College printed, marked 'as published', and nothing more. |
| Suppressed | The College removed the count to protect identities. It prints XX, xx, 0.00, 0.0, 00 or .00 depending on the PDF. | Not zero, and not a missing force. We do not estimate it. |
| Not listed | The force does not appear in that sitting's table. | The College says the table covers forces that nominated candidates. We do not know why a force is absent. |
| Total | The overall sat, passed and rate printed in the same PDF. | The unsuppressed rows should add up to slightly less than this. The gap is the effect of suppression. |
Sample size comes first
In the March 2026 sergeants' sitting only 5 of the 34 forces with published counts had fewer than 30 candidates, but 9 of the 43 listed forces had their counts suppressed. In the May 2026 inspectors' sitting 17 of the 35 forces with published counts had fewer than 30 candidates, and a further 8 were suppressed. The inspectors' exam is sat by far fewer people, so each inspectors' force figure rests on fewer officers than the sergeants' figures do.
As an illustration of size only, and not a College statement, the 95% margin of error on a pass proportion near 55% is about plus or minus 18 percentage points for 30 candidates, plus or minus 10 points for 100 and plus or minus 3 points for 1,000 (1.96 times the square root of p(1-p)/n, with p = 0.55). Candidates are not a random sample of a force, so the true uncertainty is not captured by that formula. The point is that a gap of 10 points between two forces of 40 candidates each is well inside the range that a few results could produce.
Force differences are real as numbers and open as explanations
The rates in the PDFs are the rates. What they do not give is a reason. The College does not say whether a difference reflects who each force nominated, when candidates sat, how they prepared, how many were first attempts or anything else, and we have no data to say so either. Treat any claim that a particular force is better or worse at preparing candidates as unsupported by these figures.
The Metropolitan Police Service is a large share of the total
The Metropolitan Police Service accounts for between 30% and 42% of all candidates in the sittings we read, and its printed rate is lower than the national rate in every one of them. Because it is so large, it also pulls the national rate. Taking the printed numbers for March 2026, the other forces together had 1,414 passes from 2,067 candidates, 68.4%, against 58.5% for everyone. The trend tables below show that calculation for every sitting. It is arithmetic on published figures, not an explanation.
The College's caution on comparing forces
Every overview PDF carries the same short caution under the force table. This is the wording from the March 2026 sergeants' overview, copied exactly, with the College of Policing as the author:
Comparison between force pass rates should be done with caution, due to the differences in the number of candidates taking the examination per force.
The same sentence appears in the other thirteen overviews we read, with a comma after the word caution in some and not in others. The College's note on suppressed numbers sits just above it. This is that note from the same PDF, again verbatim:
Please note that where candidate numbers are low, these have been removed to ensure that no candidates can be personally identified from this data. Low figures in terms of pass or fail rates could, when paired with other information in the public domain, result in the identification of individuals. To avoid this, we will not release information where identification could result. We are unable to confirm the threshold used to redact data, as this in itself may allow calculations to be made from other information released in the public domain.
Putting the two together, the College is telling readers that force figures rest on very different numbers of candidates and that it will not release counts that could identify a person. Both points are built into this page: the sample size is always shown first, and a suppressed count stays suppressed.
Why a force rate is not a prediction for you
- An average describes a group, not a person. A force rate of 70% does not mean each candidate has a 70% chance. It means 7 in 10 of that force's candidates passed on that occasion. Your chance depends on what you know and how you sit the paper.
- The paper does not depend on the force. All candidates sit the same national paper online under the same cut score, 55% for sergeants (77 of 140 scored questions) and 65% for inspectors (91 of 140). Your force does not change the pass mark.
- One sitting is one sample. The same force can move many points between sittings. The one-force view of the table shows this, next to the national rate.
- The national rate moves for everyone. The sergeants' rate was 43.9% in October 2023 and 58.5% in March 2026, and the inspectors' rate was 48.8% in May 2023 and 24.4% in November 2025. A force sitting in a low year and one sitting in a high year are not like for like.
- What predicts your own result is your practice. Timed mixed practice against the pass mark, a revision plan that covers all chapters and a sitting you are ready for are in your control. For the sitting dates see the 2027 exam dates guide, and for the pass mark see the pass mark guide.
National trend, sitting by sitting
These tables use the national figures in each PDF's force table, with the pass rate recomputed as passed divided by sat. The Metropolitan Police Service column and the last column come from the force table in the same PDF: the second-last is the Metropolitan Police Service's printed pass rate, and the last is the rate for everyone else, calculated by taking the Met's printed passes and candidates out of the national totals.
| Sitting | Sat | Passed | Pass rate | Metropolitan Police Service | All other forces | Cut score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | 3,215 | 1,882 | 58.5% | 1,148 sat, 40.8% | 68.4% | 55% |
| October 2025 | 3,040 | 1,566 | 51.5% | 970 sat, 33.1% | 60.1% | 55% |
| March 2025 | 3,507 | 1,967 | 56.1% | 1,357 sat, 36.0% | 68.8% | 55% |
| October 2024 | 3,842 | 1,831 | 47.7% | 1,530 sat, 28.4% | 60.4% | 55% |
| March 2024 | 4,268 | 2,012 | 47.1% | 1,631 sat, 29.8% | 57.9% | 55% |
| October 2023 | 4,208 | 1,849 | 43.9% | 1,755 sat, 26.8% | 56.2% | 55% |
| March 2023 | 5,641 | 3,269 | 58.0% | 2,111 sat, 41.7% | 67.6% | 55% |
| Sitting | Sat | Passed | Pass rate | Metropolitan Police Service | All other forces | Cut score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 1,739 | 644 | 37.0% | 530 sat, 23.8% | 42.8% | 65% |
| November 2025 | 1,693 | 413 | 24.4% | 518 sat, 14.1% | 28.9% | 65% |
| May 2025 | 1,682 | 581 | 34.5% | 538 sat, 21.7% | 40.6% | 65% |
| November 2024 | 1,822 | 606 | 33.3% | 660 sat, 20.6% | 40.4% | 65% |
| May 2024 | 1,739 | 677 | 38.9% | 619 sat, 25.5% | 46.3% | 65% |
| November 2023 | 1,885 | 784 | 41.6% | 677 sat, 30.4% | 47.8% | 65% |
| May 2023 | 1,696 | 827 | 48.8% | 557 sat, 35.0% | 55.5% | 65% |
Two observations come straight from the numbers, with no explanation offered. First, the sergeants' national rate has moved between 43.9% and 58.5% over seven sittings, while the inspectors' has moved between 24.4% and 48.8% over seven. Second, the Metropolitan Police Service's rate and the rate for the other forces moved in the same direction between most pairs of consecutive sittings. For the national picture before 2023 see the pass mark guide.
Redaction handling and the checks we ran
We kept to a few rules, applied to every sitting. We hope they make the data safe to reuse.
- Suppressed means suppressed. The College prints suppressed counts as XX or xx in most PDFs, and as 0.00, 0.0, 00 or .00 in some others. These are placeholders, not zeros. We store them as empty and never back-calculate them from the printed percentage, from the totals, or from other tables.
- Printed percentages are kept as printed. Where the College prints a percentage beside suppressed counts, we show it labelled 'as published'. In the March 2025 sergeants' PDF six forces show .00 in all three columns, and in the October 2025 sergeants' PDF four forces show 0.00% beside 00 and 00. Those are placeholders for a suppressed rate, so we show those rates as suppressed too. Five rows in other PDFs print 0.0% beside XX counts (Port of Liverpool in March 2023, March 2024 and May 2025, Guernsey in March 2024 and Gloucestershire in May 2025). We cannot tell whether that is a real rate for a very small cohort or a placeholder, so we show it as printed, labelled 'as published', and draw no conclusion from it.
- Recompute, then compare. For each force with published counts we recomputed passed divided by sat to one decimal place and compared it with the printed rate. All of them agree. The recomputed figure is the one displayed. The March 2024 PDF prints one rate with a comma, 50,0%, which we read as 50.0%, which matches 37 of 74.
- Names are normalised, not merged. We make British Transport and British Transport Police one name, Metropolitan and Metropolitan Police Service one name and Dyfed Powys and Dyfed-Powys one name, so a force can be followed across sittings. No two different forces were merged.
Do the forces add up to the national total?
For each sitting we added the unsuppressed per-force counts and compared them with the total printed in the same PDF. The sums are always at or below the totals, never above, and the shortfall in passes never exceeds the shortfall in candidates. That is what the suppression predicts: the missing candidates are in the rows whose counts were removed. In every sitting the unsuppressed rows are at least 94% of the candidates in sergeants' sittings and at least 89% in inspectors'. No sitting failed the check, so none was excluded.
| Sitting | Printed total | Forces suppressed | Sum of unsuppressed rows | Gap | Gap as share of sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspectors May 2026 | 1,739 / 644 | 8 of 43 | 1,693 / 621 | 46 / 23 | 2.6% |
| Inspectors November 2025 | 1,693 / 413 | 10 of 43 | 1,517 / 379 | 176 / 34 | 10.4% |
| Inspectors May 2025 | 1,682 / 581 | 13 of 44 | 1,568 / 536 | 114 / 45 | 6.8% |
| Inspectors November 2024 | 1,822 / 606 | 11 of 44 | 1,701 / 569 | 121 / 37 | 6.6% |
| Inspectors May 2024 | 1,739 / 677 | 9 of 45 | 1,655 / 627 | 84 / 50 | 4.8% |
| Inspectors November 2023 | 1,885 / 784 | 9 of 44 | 1,782 / 725 | 103 / 59 | 5.5% |
| Inspectors May 2023 | 1,696 / 827 | 8 of 43 | 1,612 / 778 | 84 / 49 | 5.0% |
| Sergeants March 2026 | 3,215 / 1,882 | 9 of 43 | 3,030 / 1,727 | 185 / 155 | 5.8% |
| Sergeants October 2025 | 3,040 / 1,566 | 4 of 43 | 2,899 / 1,517 | 141 / 49 | 4.6% |
| Sergeants March 2025 | 3,507 / 1,967 | 6 of 43 | 3,398 / 1,875 | 109 / 92 | 3.1% |
| Sergeants October 2024 | 3,842 / 1,831 | 4 of 44 | 3,787 / 1,785 | 55 / 46 | 1.4% |
| Sergeants March 2024 | 4,268 / 2,012 | 5 of 47 | 4,229 / 1,982 | 39 / 30 | 0.9% |
| Sergeants October 2023 | 4,208 / 1,849 | 3 of 45 | 4,197 / 1,842 | 11 / 7 | 0.3% |
| Sergeants March 2023 | 5,641 / 3,269 | 2 of 46 | 5,638 / 3,268 | 3 / 1 | 0.1% |
Cite this page and download the data
To cite a figure, cite the College of Policing PDF for that sitting as the original source and say that this page transcribed it. A suitable form is: College of Policing, NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, March 2026, results and analysis overview, force table, as transcribed by PolicePay at policepay.co.uk/officers/promotion/sergeant-and-inspector-exam-pass-rate-by-force/, checked 6 October 2026.
The table above has a button that downloads every sitting as a CSV. It is built in your browser from the same data as the table, leaves suppressed cells empty, and says per row whether the rate was recomputed from published counts or copied as printed beside suppressed counts. Each row carries the source PDF address and the date we checked it.
What to do with this
- If your force is large, the figure is more stable but still an average. If it is small, treat it as one data point among many.
- Set the pass mark, not the force average, as your target: 77 of 140 scored questions for sergeants and 91 for inspectors. Our free 20-question mini mock gives you a first timed score.
- Plan back from your sitting. Our study planner uses the College's published dates, and the exam prep toolkit is our own question bank, which we disclose as a PolicePay product.
- Read how hard the sergeant exam is or the inspector exam for the national figures and what the College publishes about them.
What we could not verify
- Sittings before March 2023. The College's 2021 and 2022 overview PDFs (the March 2022 sergeants' file and the October 2021 inspectors' file, for example) returned errors from our reading environment on 6 October 2026, and the archived copies could not be reached. We did not open them and did not include them. The October 2022 inspectors' overview has not been located at all.
- Why force rates differ. None of the PDFs analyse the reasons, and we do not offer any. We have no data on preparation, study time, shift pattern, support, whether candidates were sitting for the first time, or how forces select who to nominate.
- The redaction threshold. The College says it cannot confirm the threshold it uses to redact data. Counts as low as 11 are printed in some sittings, so a low count is not always suppressed, and we cannot tell you a minimum.
- Who is in the 'sat' column. The PDFs do not say whether candidates resitting after an earlier fail are counted differently, or whether one person can appear in more than one sitting. We treat each sitting separately.
- The absence of some forces. Avon and Somerset is absent from the tables from March 2025 onwards for sergeants and from May 2025 onwards for inspectors. Several other forces are absent from some tables. The PDFs do not say why.
- A printed typo in November 2025. The November 2025 inspectors' overview prints 502 in the pass slice of its performance-band chart, which cannot be right for 413 successful candidates. We used the force table and its totals (1,693 sat, 413 passed, 24.4%) and did not use the band chart.
- Results for sittings still to come. The October 2026 sergeants' results are not published yet (results by 29 October 2026 per the College's published dates, which we could not re-check on the College site on 6 October 2026), and the November 2026 inspectors' sitting has not happened.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which force has the highest sergeants exam pass rate?
The question has no stable answer, and the College warns against comparing forces without care. In the March 2026 sergeants sitting the highest printed rate was Warwickshire at 100.0%, but the College suppressed its candidate counts, so the rate rests on a very small cohort. Among forces whose counts were published, Thames Valley had 85.5% from 62 candidates. A different sitting gives a different order, because most forces send few candidates and one or two results move the rate a lot.
Which force has the lowest pass rate?
The Metropolitan Police Service has had the lowest or among the lowest printed rate in many sittings, for example 40.8% from 1,148 candidates in March 2026 and 23.8% from 530 in the May 2026 inspectors' sitting. It is also by far the largest force in the data, with 30% to 42% of all candidates in the sittings we read. The College does not say why force rates differ, so we do not offer a reason. The page shows the numbers and leaves interpretation to the reader.
Does my force's pass rate tell me my chance of passing?
No. A force rate is an average over everyone from that force who sat on one occasion. It says nothing about how much any individual has revised, what they already know, how long they have been in the role or which questions appear on the paper. Two officers in the same force can have very different chances. Use the rate as context, then build your own picture from timed practice scores against the 55% or 65% pass mark.
Why are some figures marked suppressed?
The College removes counts where numbers are low so that no candidate can be identified. Its own wording is in the page above. In some sittings it still prints a percentage beside the suppressed counts. We copy exactly what each PDF shows, mark the counts as suppressed and never estimate them, even though the printed percentage could in theory be combined with other figures. Estimating suppressed numbers would work against the purpose of the redaction.
How many candidates make a force rate reliable?
There is no official threshold, and the College says it cannot confirm the threshold it uses to redact data. As an illustration only, and not a College statement, the margin of error on a proportion near 55% is roughly plus or minus 18 percentage points with 30 candidates, plus or minus 10 points with 100 and plus or minus 3 points with 1,000. Candidates are not a random sample, so those figures show the order of size of the uncertainty, not a precise interval.
Why do the same forces look different from sitting to sitting?
With 20 to 60 candidates in a typical force, a handful of extra passes or fails changes the rate by several points. Sergeants' sittings also differ in their national rate, from 43.9% in October 2023 to 58.5% in March 2026, so a force may move with the whole country. The table includes a view of one force across every sitting, next to the national rate, so you can see both movements together.
Are the figures official?
Every figure comes from a results and analysis overview PDF published on assets.college.police.uk by the College of Policing, and each sitting in the table links to its PDF. PolicePay is not the College and the table is our transcription. We recomputed every pass rate from the published counts and checked that the totals are consistent with the national figures in the same PDF. Where a PDF has a visible typo we say so. If you spot a transcription error, tell us and we will correct it.
Which sittings are included?
Seven sergeants' sittings (March 2023, October 2023, March 2024, October 2024, March 2025, October 2025 and March 2026) and seven inspectors' sittings (May 2023, November 2023, May 2024, November 2024, May 2025, November 2025 and May 2026). These are the overview PDFs we could open and read on 6 October 2026. Earlier overviews, from 2021 and 2022, are cited in other College material but could not be opened from our reading environment, so we did not include them.
Why is Avon and Somerset missing from recent tables?
Avon and Somerset appears in the tables up to and including the October 2024 sergeants' sitting and the November 2024 inspectors' sitting, and does not appear in the later tables we read. The College's introduction says the table covers each force that nominated candidates. We do not know the reason for the absence and do not guess. If you need an answer, ask your own force's learning and development team or the College.
Does the British Transport Police count as a force here?
Yes. The College's tables list it with the territorial forces, and so do we, under the name British Transport Police. A few other bodies appear in some sittings with suppressed counts, such as Port of Dover, Port of Liverpool, Port of Tilbury and Guernsey. They are in the data file and the CSV when the PDF lists them. The College names vary between PDFs, for example British Transport and British Transport Police, and we normalise those names.
Can I use these figures to choose which force to join or transfer to?
We would not. Pass rates by force reflect who sat in a given year, which is influenced by who a force nominates and when, and the College says comparisons should be made with caution. Nothing in the PDFs says a force affects a candidate's chance, and we cannot show it. Choose a force for the work, the location and the career support, and prepare for the exam in the same way wherever you serve.
Does a low or high rate mean a force trains or supports candidates better or worse?
The PDFs do not say, and we do not claim it. A force rate is a result, not an explanation. It could reflect many things, including the number and mix of candidates, how they prepared and when they sat, and none of those are in the College figures. If you want to know what support your force offers, ask your learning and development team what they provide for the exam.
Will this page be updated after the October 2026 results?
The October 2026 sergeants' sitting ran from 6 to 8 October 2026 and the College's published results-by date is 29 October 2026, so no results exist yet and none are shown. We will add each new sitting only after we have opened its PDF, recomputed the rates and checked the totals. The November 2026 inspectors' sitting is due to be sat from 3 to 5 November 2026.
How do I cite or reuse this table?
Cite the College of Policing results overview PDF for the sitting as the original source, and this page as a transcription. The note in the cite section gives a suggested form. You can download all sittings as a CSV from the table, built in your browser from the same data. The CSV keeps suppressed cells empty and states, row by row, whether a rate was recomputed from published counts or copied as printed beside suppressed counts.
Sources and how we checked them
Every factual claim on this page was written from the sources below, read on 6 October 2026. Rules and figures change, so check the source for the date you are reading this. Where we could not confirm something from an official or independent source, the page says so rather than guessing. Spotted something out of date? See our corrections policy.
- College of Policing: NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, March 2026, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 3,215 sat, 1,882 passed, 58.5% overall; 43 force rows, 9 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, October 2025, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 3,040 sat, 1,566 passed, 51.5% overall; 43 force rows, 4 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, March 2025, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 3,507 sat, 1,967 passed, 56.1% overall; 43 force rows, 6 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, October 2024, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 3,842 sat, 1,831 passed, 47.7% overall; 44 force rows, 4 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, March 2024, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 4,268 sat, 2,012 passed, 47.1% overall; 47 force rows, 5 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, October 2023, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 4,208 sat, 1,849 passed, 43.9% overall; 45 force rows, 3 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF sergeants' step-two legal examination, March 2023, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 5,641 sat, 3,269 passed, 58.0% overall; 46 force rows, 2 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF inspectors' step-two legal examination, May 2026, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 1,739 sat, 644 passed, 37.0% overall; 43 force rows, 8 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF inspectors' step-two legal examination, November 2025, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 1,693 sat, 413 passed, 24.4% overall; 43 force rows, 10 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF inspectors' step-two legal examination, May 2025, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 1,682 sat, 581 passed, 34.5% overall; 44 force rows, 13 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF inspectors' step-two legal examination, November 2024, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 1,822 sat, 606 passed, 33.3% overall; 44 force rows, 11 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF inspectors' step-two legal examination, May 2024, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 1,739 sat, 677 passed, 38.9% overall; 45 force rows, 9 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF inspectors' step-two legal examination, November 2023, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 1,885 sat, 784 passed, 41.6% overall; 44 force rows, 9 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- College of Policing: NPPF inspectors' step-two legal examination, May 2023, results and analysis overview (PDF, opened 6 October 2026) — force table: 1,696 sat, 827 passed, 48.8% overall; 43 force rows, 8 with suppressed counts (accessed 6 October 2026)
- PolicePay: Sergeant and inspector exam pass mark explained — national results by sitting and the 55% and 65% cut scores; our own page, which also lists the 2021 and 2022 overviews that we did not re-open for this table (accessed 6 October 2026)
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