Officers Charged (1094A/23)
Request
- The number of police officers who have been charged with a criminal offence in the year ending June 30 2023, with details of what offences they were charged with.
- The number of police officers who were charged with a criminal offence in the year ending June 30 2022, with details of what offences they were charged with.
- The number of police officers who were charged with a criminal offence in the year ending June 30 2021, with details of what offences they were charged with.
Response
Please find attached (1094A_23_attachment.pdf).
We want our officers to uphold the highest of standards so the public has the utmost confidence in them.
We must do everything we can to maintain public confidence and trust in policing.
This will provide reassurance to the public that we mean it when we say we’ll do all we can to preserve and rebuild trust.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.