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:
1 The number of reports of domestic abuse, allegedly perpetrated by police officers, community support officers, or staff members employed by your force, received by your force for each financial year (April 1 to the following March 31) from 2015-2020. I would please like this to cover both domestic abuse related incidents and offences
And for each report
2 A brief description of the alleged wrongdoing without any personal information (if you can provide this)
3 The outcomes of both the misconduct case and any criminal case
4 Whether the report was referred to IPOC
In Response:
Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Professional Standards Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.
I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows with the caveats below noted.
The information provided has been extracted from a ‘live’ database and may be subject to the addition and deletion of complaints, complainants and subjects after the initial extraction of data used for the purposes of this request.
The below response includes Complaint and Conduct cases recorded during the period 01/04/15 – 31/03/20 which had the following key words within the allegations summary field like ‘domestic’, ‘abuse’, ‘assault’ and ‘harass’, each case was then assessed to establish if it meets the criteria of this request, data refers to the date the allegation was made and not the date of the incident.
1 2015/16 – x4
2016/17 – x6
2017/18 – x0
2018/19 – x0
2019/20 – x1
2 2015/16
Physical Assault – Partner x3
Domestic Abuse – Partner x1
2016/17
Physical Assault – Partner x3
Domestic Abuse – Partner x3
2019/20
Harassment – Partner x1
3 2015/16
Management Action – x1
No case to answer – x2
Resigned during investigation – x1
No criminal cases
2016/17
No case to answer – x4
No action withdrawn – x1
Resigned – would have been dismissed – x1
1 criminal case – custodial sentence
2019/20
No case to answer – x1
No criminal case
4 2015/16
1 case referred to IOPC
2016/17
1 case referred to IOPC
