Officer/staff arrests - 548/19

Date Responded 11 June 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

The number of police officers arrested between 2015 and 2019, with figures broken down for each year.
The number of police staff arrested between 2015 and 2019, with figures broken down for each year.

For each arrest, please provide:

3. The rank/role of the arrested person

4.Years in service

5.Date of arrest

6.Details of the offence the individual was arrested on suspicion of

7.The outcome of the criminal investigation, including the outcome of any prosecution where applicable

8. The outcome of any other investigation into the matter please specify who conducted the investigation (i.e. internal within the force, the IPCC, etc) and the end result of that investigation

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted only within the Professional Standards Department of Northumbria Police. Any other searches would have rendered this request exempt under Section 12 or burdensome under Section 14 due to additional search areas which would have required extensive research being carried out, ie of PNC records. In order to provide you with a response we have therefore limited any searches to the Professional Standards Department.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

The following information has been extracted from records maintained by Professional Standards Department.

2015 - 10

2016 - 3

2017 - 6

2018 - 6

2019 - 1 (up to 25/04/19)

2015 - 5

2016 - 1

2017 - 0

2018 - 2

2019 - 0 (up to 25/04/19)

3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

(question 4 years in service is from the original start date to the arrest date)

URN	Rank / Role	years in service	date of arrest	offence arrested on suspicion of	outcome criminal investigation	outcome misconduct investigation
1	Police Constable	21	Feb/2015	Drink Driving	Fined and disqualified from driving for 17 months	Dismissed without notice - Local Investigation
2	Police Constable	21	Jun/2015	Drink Driving	120 hours unpaid work, disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 29 months and ordered to pay costs	Resigned prior to misconduct proceedings - Local Investigation
3	Police Constable		Jan/2015	Assault occasioning actual bodily harm	NFA	No action - Local Investigation
4	Police Sergeant		2015	Criminal Damage / Breach of the Peace	NFA	No action - Local Investigation
5	Police staff	00	May/2015	Fraud	Simple Caution	Resigned prior to misconduct proceedings - Local Investigation
6	Police staff	09	Aug/2015	Drunk & Disorderly	not applicable	Resigned prior to misconduct proceedings - Local Investigation
7	Police staff		2015	Drink Driving	Fined and disqualified from driving for 17 months	Final written warning - Local Investigation
8	Special Constable	01	Jan/2015	Incite male under 13 engage in sexual act	NFA	Resigned prior to misconduct proceedings - Local Investigation
9	Police Constable		2015	Common Assault	Case Dismissed	Written warning - Local Investigation
10	Police Constable	13	Sep/2015	Assault occasioning actual bodily harm	Community Order for a period of 12 months which included a two month curfew and order to pay compensation	Dismissed without notice - Local Investigation
11	Police Constable	15	Oct/2015	Corrupt or other Improper Exercise of Police Powers	255 hours unpaid work in the community and ordered to pay costs	Dismissed without notice - Local Investigation
12	Police Constable	08	Oct/2015	Corrupt or other Improper Exercise of Police Powers	120 hours unpaid work and pay costs	Dismissed without notice - Local Investigation
13	Police staff		2015	Drink Driving	Fined and disqualified from driving for 18 months	Written warning - Local Investigation
14	Police Constable		2015	common assault by beating	NFA	No action - Local Investigation
15	Police staff		2015	Assault occasioning actual bodily harm	NFA	No action - Local Investigation
16	Police Constable		2018	Sexual Assault	NFA	No action - Local Investigation
17	Police staff	09	Aug/2016	Theft	Case Dismissed	Resigned prior to misconduct proceedings - Local Investigation
18	Police Constable		2016	Penetrate Sexually the vagina / anus of another without consent	Not Guilty Not Proven	No action - Local Investigation
19	Police Sergeant		2016	Assault	NFA	No action -
20	Police Constable	09	Mar/2017	Harassment	18 month imprisonment - half the sentence to be served in custody, half on licence	Dismissed without notice - local investigation
21	Police Sergeant		2017	Drunk & Disorderly	Fixed penalty	No action - local investigation
22	Police Constable	20	May/2017	Drink Driving	Fined and disqualified from driving for 22 months	Dismissed without notice - local investigation
23	Police Constable	14	Feb/2017	Drink Driving	Fined and disqualified from driving for 25 months	Dismissed without notice - local investigation
24	Special Constable		2017	Drunk & Disorderly	not applicable	Final written warning - local investigation
25	Police staff		2018	Drunk & Disorderly	not applicable	Written warning - local investigation
26	Police Constable	21	Apr/2018	Drug Driving	Fined and disqualified from driving for 12 months	Dismissed without notice - local investigation
27	Police Constable	21	Apr/2018	Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm, Criminal Damage and Burglary,	Section 20 Assault GBH - GUILTY - two & half years sentence Criminal Damage - NOT GUILTY	Dismissed without notice - local investigation
28	Police staff	09	Jul/2018	Drink Driving	Fined and disqualified from driving for 12 months	Resigned prior to misconduct proceedings - local investigation
29	Police Constable		2018	DV common assault	NFA	No action - local investigation
30	Police Constable		2018	S 39	NFA	No action - local investigation
31	Police Sergeant		2018	Drink Driving	Case dismissed	No action - local investigation
32	Police Constable		2019	Affray	NFA	No action - local investigation

To note – Section 40(2) has been applied to some of the information above where officers have not been dismissed.

Section 40(2) Personal Information:

This is an absolute exemption and therefore a Public Interest Test is not relevant. However, for clarity, I will explain my rationale for engaging this exemption.

Section 40(2) provides that information is exempt if it is the personal data of someone other than the applicant and disclosure would breach any of the data protection principles. The term ‘personal data’ means data that relates to a living individual who can be identified. This may take an obvious form of ‘personal’ such as a name but can also include information from which a person can be identified. Although not explicitly naming individuals, the cumulative effect of full disclosure may lead to the identification of those involved

A disclosure in this instance, because it is so specific, would infringe the first Data Protection Principle, in that it would be both unlawful and unfair

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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