PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Police: Dismissal and Disciplinary Proceedings (25 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answers of 24 June 2020 to Questions 59676, 59675 and 59674 on Police: Dismissal and Disciplinary Proceedings, if she will provide hyperlinks to where the information requested is located on www.gov.uk.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

The information requested is not publicly available on www.gov.uk

Police dismissals (59676)
The Home Office collects and publishes information annually on the outcome of misconduct proceedings and criminal investigations involving officers, including the number of officers that have been dismissed following proceedings. However, information on the circumstances that led to a case being brought is not collected centrally by the Home Office

The latest data on the outcomes following misconduct proceedings, which covers cases in the year ending March 2019, is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-30-september-2019.

The College of Policing publish data annually relating to those who have been dismissed from policing and placed on the Police Barred List. The most recent data shows that, in the period ending 31 March 2019, 11 officers were dismissed under the category ‘excess force’. This data is available here:
https://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Documents/Barred_List_2019.pdf.

Domestic Violence (59675 and 59674)
The Home Office also collects and publishes statistics on the number of arrests for notifiable offences, conducted by each police force in England and Wales, on an annual basis.

Data is held at the offence group level only (for example ‘Violence against the person’ offences). Information on the number of arrests there have been specifically as a result of domestic violence in the last five years is not held centrally.

Data is published in the ‘Police Powers and Procedures, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, the latest of which can be accessed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-powers-and-procedures-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2019

The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the primary function of police officers, as part of the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins, which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales .

This data includes officers whose primary function is “Protecting Vulnerable People”, and officers with multiple responsibilities are recorded under their primary function.

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
28 July 2020