Police: Complaints

(asked on 25th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the time taken by Police Constabularies to resolve complaints involving police (a) officers and (b) employees.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 30th September 2019

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) determines the information that police forces are required to collect on police complaints. The data is published by the IOPC on its website and through an annual Police Complaints Statistics report.

https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Documents/statistics/complaints_statistics_2017_18.pdf.

The data includes the number of complaints received by each force, the types of complaint and the time taken to deal with them.

The Government has developed a comprehensive package of reforms to the police complaints system to increase transparency and the timeliness with which complaints are handled. These reforms are set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and will be implemented early next year, Parliamentary time permitting.

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