The College of Policing ‘Disapproved Register’ became effective from 1st December 2013. Since then police forces have been providing details of those officers who have been dismissed from the service or who either resigned or retired while subject to a gross misconduct investigation where it had been determined there would have been a case to answer.
At this time police gross misconduct hearings are not generally open to the public (except in exceptional circumstances). While this remains the case information that may lead to the identification of individual officers cannot be released.
Currently the Register relates to all Home Office forces in England & Wales, British Transport Police and the Ministry of Defence Police.
December 2013. Since then police forces have been providing details of those officers who have been dismissed from the service or who either resigned or retired while subject to a gross misconduct investigation where it had been determined there would have been a case to answer.
At this time police gross misconduct hearings are not generally open to the public (except in exceptional circumstances). While this remains the case information that may lead to the identification of individual officers cannot be released.
Currently the Register relates to all Home Office forces in England & Wales, British Transport Police and the Ministry of Defence Police.
College of Policing Integrity Programme: Transparency Project – Misconduct Figures Report – Please click here to view the full report
In total, 269 (out of 444) cases related to on duty conduct (61%).
Out of 444 misconduct cases, a total of 405 (91%) came from internal complaints and investigations, while 39 (9%) came from members of the public. This shows the willingness of police officers and forces to confront unacceptable behaviour and use the formal misconduct mechanisms to hold offenders to account.
