Deaths During or Following Police Contact (1229A/22)
Request
Please provide the following information regarding deaths during or following police contact for the 2021/2022 financial year:
1. Road traffic incident fatalities
The number of deaths of motorists, cyclists or pedestrians arising from police pursuits, police vehicles responding to emergency calls and other police traffic-related It does not include deaths following a road traffic incident (RTI) where the police have attended immediately after the event as an emergency service
Please provide a breakdown by ethnicity (white, Asian, black, mixed, other or not known)
2. Fatal shootings
The number of deaths where police officers fired the fatal shot using a conventional firearm
Please provide a breakdown by ethnicity (white, Asian, black, mixed, other or not known)
3. Deaths in or following police custody
The number of deaths in or following police custody, This includes deaths that occur while a person is being arrested or taken into detention. It includes deaths of persons who have been arrested or have been detained by police under the Mental Health Act 1983. The death may have taken place on police, private or medical premises, in a public place or in a police or other vehicle. For example: Deaths that occur during or following police custody where injuries that contributed to the death were sustained during the period of detention, deaths that occur in or on the way to hospital (or other medical premises) following or during transfer from scene of arrest or police custody, deaths that occur as a result of injuries or other medical problems that are identified or that develop while a person is in custody.
Please provide a breakdown by ethnicity (white, Asian, black, mixed, other or not known)
4. Apparent suicides following police custody
The number of apparent suicides that occur within two days of release from police custody. It also includes apparent suicides that occur beyond two days of release from custody, where the period spent in custody may be relevant to the subsequent death
Please provide a breakdown by ethnicity (white, Asian, black, mixed, other or not known)
5. Other deaths following police contact
The number of deaths that follow contact with the police, either directly or indirectly, that did not involve arrest or detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 and were subject to an independent investigation by the IOPC.
Please provide a breakdown by ethnicity (white, Asian, black, mixed, other or not known)
Response
Please find attached (1229A_22_attachment_pdf).
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.