Officer criminal convictions (FOI ref: 2004A/25)

Request

Under the FOI Act, please provide me information on police officers (not staff) convicted of criminal offences since 2018, while employed by the force.

1) The number of police officers and PCSOs in your force convicted of a crime.

2) For each officer/PCSO listed in your answer to question 1, itemise them to show their rank, gender, the type of offence (assault, rape, etc), the year of conviction, status at force now (still serving, retired resigned, sanction).

Response

1) The number of police officers and PCSOs in your force convicted of a crime.

36 – All are no longer serving in the organisation.

2) For each officer/PCSO listed in your answer to question 1, itemise them to show their rank, gender, the type of offence (assault, rape, etc), the year of conviction, status at force now (still serving, retired resigned, sanction).

See following table:

“We want our officers to uphold the highest of standards so the public has the utmost confidence in them. Criminal behaviour is unacceptable but when it is done by a police officer - who holds a position of power and someone the public should trust - it must be rooted out and eliminated. We must do everything we can to maintain public confidence and trust in policing. This will provide reassurance to the public that we mean it when we say we'll do all we can to preserve and rebuild trust.”

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting the data.

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.

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