Suspended officers (FOI ref: 1741A/25)

Request

A list of all police officers who are currently suspended on full pay, including their rank, the reason for their suspension, and the number of days they have been suspended

Response

“The decision to suspend a staff member or officer is a neutral act and made in accordance with The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020.

Where appropriate we try to re-deploy officers into alternative roles while investigations are carried out.

However, suspension will be considered appropriate if the effectiveness of an investigation may be prejudiced or the nature of the allegation and any relevant public interest requires the person to be suspended.

Other factors that impact on the length of suspension for a staff member or officer is if the conduct matters are subjudice due to ongoing criminal investigations.”

We can confirm that West Midlands Police holds the information requested. However, disclosure of the information at an individual officer level would constitute the disclosure of personal data and is exempt under section 40(2) (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Details of this exemption can be found here: 

Freedom of information | College of Policing - s40

In order to reduce the risk of identifying individuals, the information has instead been disclosed in aggregated tables below, with senior ranks combined as Chief Inspector or above, and suspension durations expressed in months rather than exact calendar days. Data is as at 21 November 2025.

Table1. Number of officers currently suspended on full pay, by rank:

Table 2. Count of suspension reasons (Breach Type):

* Officers may be suspended for more than one reason

Table 3. Length of suspension:

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.  

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.