Police misconduct, England and Wales year ending 31 March 2025

Product Description

This release contains information on the number of police complaints, conduct matters, and recordable conduct matters finalised by the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales in the year ending 31 March 2025.

The publication primarily focuses on cases where there is an indication that a member of a police force may have committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner that would justify disciplinary proceedings.

Data is presented on the number of misconduct allegations by case type, nature of the allegation,
whether there is a case to answer for misconduct, and subsequent action taken.

Where a case handler has found sufficient evidence for a case to answer for misconduct, the case may be referred to a misconduct proceeding. Data for all misconduct proceedings is presented by case type, proceeding type, outcome, level of misconduct found proven, and disciplinary action imposed.

Further chapters include information on Police Appeals Tribunals, criminal proceedings and case timeliness.

These statistics include cases raised under the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 only, for cases which came to the force’s attention on or after 1 February 2020. The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 do not apply to members of police staff, and forces may adopt different local processes. As such, this publication primarily focuses on cases involving police officers (including special constables). Data on police staff can be found in a high-level summary in chapter 10.

The data in this release can be found in the accompanying data tables on the CD-ROM.