Police misconduct, England and Wales: year ending 31 March 2025
Statistics on the number of police complaints, conduct matters and recordable conduct matters finalised in the year ending 31 March 2025.
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This release contains information on the number of police misconduct cases finalised by the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales in the year ending 31 March 2025.
These statistics cover 3 distinct categories of misconduct allegations, where there is an indication that an individual may have committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner that would justify the bringing of disciplinary proceedings.
This includes:
- allegations raised by the public through police complaints, where the allegation has been investigated subject to Special Procedures
- all internally raised conduct matters
- all recordable conduct matters
Where allegations are referred to misconduct proceedings, the data includes including the number found to have committed misconduct or gross misconduct and information on subsequent action taken.
In addition, the publication includes information on the time taken to finalise cases, data on suspensions and data on the number of cases involving criminal proceedings.
Open data tables complementing this statistical release are also published and include information on the outcome of proceedings and allegations by protected characteristics (age, ethnicity and gender).
The main statistical bulletin primarily focusses on cases involving police officers (which includes special constables), with additional data on police staff (which includes civilian staff, designated officers and police community support officers) available in the accompanying data tables.
The data is Official Statistics in Development (formerly known as Experimental Statistics) to acknowledge that they should be interpreted with caution. These statistics are going through development, with a potentially wider degree of uncertainty in the figures whilst processes are established and verified.
See the ‘User guide to police misconduct statistics’ for further information, including a glossary, conventions used, information regarding data quality and other background information.
To support the future development of these statistics and expand our user reach, we encourage users to complete our user engagement survey.
If you have any queries about this release, please email policingstatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk or write to:
Policing Analysis Unit
2nd floor Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
The Home Office responsible statistician is Jodie Hargreaves.