FOI 533/25 Officers with DV

Date: 11/06/25

Enquiry Reference:  533- 25                                                             

 

I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response. Please accept our sincere apologies for the late reply.

 

1) PPDA CONDUCT CASES. The number of conduct cases instigated against police officers, and the number of individual officers they relate to, involving domestic abuse from 1 January 2021 to 31 April 2025

If your force does not have a specific flag used on Centurion to identify domestic abuse cases, please apply the methodology that you would usually use to identify and report on such cases, for example by searching for key words within the allegation summary field.

 

Please describe the methodology used. If your methodology is manual and time consuming to the extent that responding to the question would exceed time constraints, please limit your response to a reasonable time frame by starting with a later year, and describe the dates covered.

Please break down the number of cases by year and specify the number of individuals involved as well as the total number of cases:

 

Answer

YEAR	COUNT OF POLICE OFFICERS	TOTAL NUMBER OF CONDUCT CASES
2021	5	5
2022	7	7
2023	4	4
2024	5	5
2025 (to end of April)	2	2
TOTAL	23	23

 

2) PPDA CONDUCT OFFICER RANK. For the individuals identified above, please specify the rank of the police officer.

 

Answer

INDIVIDUAL’S RANK	TOTAL
Constable	20
Sergeant & above	4
TOTAL	24

 

3) PPDA CONDUCT INITIAL OUTCOMES. For the cases identified above, please break down the initial outcomes of all conduct cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

 

Answer

INITIAL CONDUCT CASE RESULT	TOTAL
Discontinuance
No case to answer	9
Case to answer	6
Ongoing/live	8
TOTAL	23

 

4) PPDA CONDUCT CASE TO ANSWER OUTCOMES. For the cases identified above where there was a case to answer, please break down the action taken for all such cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

 

Answer

ACTION IF CASE TO ANSWER	TOTAL
Formal action
No action	6
Reflective practice	4
Ongoing/live	7
TOTAL	17

 

5) PPDA CONDUCT FORMAL ACTION TAKEN. For the cases identified above where there was formal action taken, please break down the sanction enforced, for all such cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

 

Answer

SANCTION IF FORMAL ACTION	TOTAL
Dismissal	1
Would Have Been Dismissed	4
Final Written Warning	1
Written Warning
No Action
Proceedings Discontinued
Other
Ongoing/live
TOTAL	6

 

6) SIZE OF WORKFORCE. Please provide a snapshot of the number of police officers working for your force as of 31^st December each year, and on 31^st April 2025, by group of rank.

If that is not possible, please provide a snapshot at another specified date each year.

 

Answer 

YEAR	POLICE CONSTABLES	SERGEANTS AND ABOVE	TOTAL POLICE OFFICERS
31 Dec 2021	1131	329	1461
31 Dec 2022	1165	288	1453
31 Dec 2023	1206	311	1517
31 Dec 2024	1216	306	1522
31 Apr 2025	1209	333	1542
TOTAL	5927	1567	7495

 

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Yours sincerely

Information Rights Decision Maker