Police Complaints, Cronavirus related (101A/20)

7 May 2020 | Discipline, Complaints and Legal

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Response

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.

Q1: The number of complaints against police officers within your police force, separated by reason for the complaint, for the years 2018 – 2020, inclusive to the present day.

These figures are from 1^st Jan 2018 to 1^st May 2020

2. The number of complaints made against officers since 26 March 2020 to the present day as a result of the police enforcement powers that have come into effect in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus

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