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Guidance

User guide to police misconduct statistics

This guide to police misconduct statistics is designed to be a useful reference guide with explanatory notes on the statistics.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Details

This guide contains a glossary of terms, information about the police complaints and conduct regulations, notes on interpreting the figures, known limitations of the data, and information on other data sources.

Updates to this page

Published 12 January 2023

Last updated 3022 January 20252026 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates
    1. Updated to accompany the publication of 'Police misconduct, England and Wales: year ending 31 March 2024'.

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Update history

2026-01-22 09:30
Updated to accompany the publication of ‘Police misconduct, England and Wales: year ending 31 March 2025’.

2025-01-30 09:30
Updated to accompany the publication of ‘Police misconduct, England and Wales: year ending 31 March 2024’.

2024-01-30 09:30
Updated to accompany the publication of ‘Police misconduct, England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2023’.

2023-01-12 09:30
First published.