We publish a list of responses we have supplied to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in Disclosure Logs. The information in the logs may be of interest to you or already provide information you would like to request. Read our disclosure log criteria to find out how we decide whether a response to a request should be included in this list.
November 2020
The November disclosure log includes the following repsonses to requests:
- Former police officers in the IOPC
- Workers’ disclosures under the Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017
- West Midlands Police Investigations
- Length of IOPC investigations
- Signatory of police complaint, appeal and review outcomes
- External training
- Operation Kalmia report
- Complaints regarding coronavirus fixed penalty notices
- Non procedural protection programs of victims and witnesses
- Operating system used in IOPC
- Investigation outcomes and prosecutions
October 2020
The October Disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- IOPC handling of subject access requests (SARs)
- IOPC investigations of Norfolk and Suffolk Police
- ICT services and infrastructure
September 2020
The September Disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Stephen Lawrence corruption investigation
- Body Worn video footage
- Verification of identity
- Complaints from ethnic minorities
- Complaints about IOPC staff
- Freemasons in the IOPC
August 2020
The August Disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- IOPC’s Intranet Solutions
- Super Complaint from Centre for Women’s Justice
- Complaints involving allegations of discrimination
- Ethnicity and gender breakdowns of IOPC staff and subject officers
- Process for deciding who investigates a police complaint
- IOPC report relating to Surrey Police response to grooming concerns
- IOPC employees with criminal convictions
- Cases submitted to the CPS
- Guidance to police forces to assist in identifying abuse of position for sexual purposes
- MPS referral regarding stop and search of Bianca Williams
- IOPC staff who were former police officers
- Police prosecution case regarding using dogs as a weapon
- IOPC payscales and annual leave
- Case factors and investigation outcomes
- Ethnicity of IOPC Directors
July 2020
The July disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Correspondence regarding arrest of royal protection officer
- Complaints made to IOPC Reportline
- Number of IOPC investigations and time taken to complete
- Complaints about Dominic Cummings
- IOPC workforce and the effects of legislative change
- Powers of a constable and IOPC Operations Manual
- Complaints about IOPC investigators
- Evidence relating to Operation Lansdowne
June 2020
The June disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Police policy on reporting a crime where there is a conflict of interest
- Lancashire constabulary investigations and referrals
- Training and development for IOPC investigators
- Equipment issued to IOPC investigators
- Operation Embley Terms of Reference
- Operations Manual
- Percentage of BAME employees
- Investigations following death or serious injury
- Outcomes of investigations
- Caroline Flack case
- Police vehicle incident data recorders and telematics
- Investigation of Sussex police contact with Ryan Prince
- Deaths following police restraint
May 2020
The May disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Procurement of IT services
- Coronavirus contingency plans
- Funding of the IOPC
- Disclosures under the
- Prescribed Persons Regulations
- Complaints about Northamptonshire Police
April 2020
The April disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Allegations of racism brought against British Transport Police
- Investigations regarding police response to domestic violence disclosure checks
- Senior Information Risk Owner and Data Protection Officer
- Sussex Police appeals and relevant appeal body test
- NCA appeals received
- Referral regarding death of Ryan Prince
- Review of claims of sex trafficking involving Jeffrey Epstein
- IOPC complaints procedure
March 2020
The March disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Correspondence relating to Operation Kentia
- Assessment regarding Boris Johnson’s conduct whilst he was Mayor of London
- HMRC referrals relating to suicides of taxpayers
- Police complaints relating to football matches
- Contracts and budgets for external training
- Costs of investigation into Leicestershire Police regarding allegations against Lord Janner
- IOPC staff who are former police officers and staff
- Social media policy
February 2020
The February disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Procedures to ensure matters are appropriately referred to the IOPC
- Quality assurance reviews of our work
- IOPC Expenses and credit card payments
- Referral regarding Operation Augusta
- Non recording appeal data
- Correspondence with MPS regarding allegations of sex trafficking
- Printers and consumables
January 2020
The January disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- IOPC’s oldest investigation
- Investigation relating to missing person in in freezer case
- Progress of investigation into former PCC Jason Ablewhite
- Former police officers employed by IOPC
- Police officers investigated for gross misconduct or misconduct
- Assessment of non recording appeals by Assessment Analysts
- Access to porn website by IOPC staff
- Announcement of result of assessment of referral from GLA regarding Boris Johnson
- Referral relating to former Cambridgeshire PCC Jason Ablewhite
- What constitutes ‘serious misconduct’
- Status of referral from GLA regarding Boris Johnson
- IOPC response to subject access requests
- Recruitment contracts and agency workers
- First contact regarding Operation Embley
December 2019
The December disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Timetable of announcement of outcome of referral from the GLA relating to Boris Johnson
- Guidance regarding police ethics
- Correspondence with Cabinet Office regarding referral from GLA concerning Boris Johnson
- Report on Thames Valley Police regarding RTI in Didcot
- Politically restricted posts in the IOPC
- Decision on referral made by the GLA relating to Boris Johnson
- IOPC staff accessing pornographic websites
- Guidance about safety of offensive weapons used as evidence
- IOPC funding sources
- IOPC employees and the Official Secrets Act
- Police complaints and appeals data
- Investigations relating to retired officers
- Female deaths following police contact
Your personal data and the IOPC
Personal data is information relating to an identifiable living individual. Whenever personal data is processed, collected, recorded, stored or disposed of it must be done within the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act (DPA).
The laws set out your rights regarding your personal information, how organisations should carry out direct marketing and how you can access information from public authorities. Any personal data we do hold, we store and process in line with our Corporate Retention and Disposal schedule and our Operational Retention and Disposal schedule.
The IOPC came under the Public Records Act (PRA 1967) in January 2018. As part of our compliance objective, our Departmental Records Officer is currently developing an appraisal policy. This will be made available for public viewing in the near future. In the meantime, should you wish to know more, please contact us.
The right to be informed
This is your right to be informed if the IOPC has collected and is holding any of your personal data and how we will use it. For further information you can read our Privacy Notices and related policies and Information Commissioner's Office's guidance
The right of access
Also known as a Subject Access Request. This is your right of access to the personal data the IOPC is collecting, holding and processing about you. This allows you to be aware of and verify the lawfulness of our processing.
The right to rectification
This right enables you to have your personal data rectified if it is inaccurate and/or incomplete. Please note the right to rectification does not apply to information that is deemed to be factually true at the time of taking
The right to erasure
Also known as the 'right to be forgotten' this allows you to request the deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances prescribed by the law.
The right to restrict processing
You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your data. However this will only apply in specific circumstances prescribed by the law.
The right to data portability
This refers to your right to receive personal data you have provided to us, in a commonly used or specified format and to request we transmit that data to you or another body/data controller
The right to object
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, under certain circumstances prescribed by the law.
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
This is your right not to be subjected to decisions that were made by wholly automated means. This is not a practice currently used by the IOPC for decision making or profiling.
Should you wish to know if any of these rights apply to your data please contact our data protection team.
When applying to exercise your access to information rights, please provide the following information:
- What information you require.
- Details of cases/complaints/appeals reference numbers.
- Your full name and address, including any other names which you may have been known by (this will help us identify all your personal information held).
- Identification & proof of address. Details of suitable identification can be found further down the page.
- How you would like to receive the information – email, post etc.
Please note that your right of access entitles you to receive your own personal data only, subject to certain exemptions. The Data Protection Act does not provide a right of access to the personal information of other persons and nor is it designed to facilitate access to information about investigations or complaints.
Therefore, it does not provide a right of access to documents, only to any such information as may be contained in a document that constitutes the personal data of the applicant.
While we will uphold your information access rights as the law sets out, we consider it good customer service to highlight the limitations of asking for information in this way.
When applying to exercise your right to rectification rights, please provide the following information:
- Details of cases/complaints/appeals reference numbers.
- Your full name and address, including any other names which you may have been known by (this will help us identify all your personal information held).
- Identification & proof of address. Details of suitable identification can be found further down the page.
- Details of the information you believe to be incorrect/incomplete and why you believe it to be so.
- The correct/complete information.
Please note the right to rectification does not apply to information that is deemed to be factually true at the time of taking.
When applying to exercise your right to erasure, please provide the following information:
- Details of cases/complaints/appeals reference numbers
- Your full name and address, including any other names which you may have been known by (this will help us identify all your personal information held)
- Identification & proof of address. Details of suitable identification can be found further down the page.
- What information you wish to be erased and why.
When applying to exercise your right to restrict processing, please provide the following information:
- Details of cases/complaints/appeals reference numbers.
- Your full name and address, including any other names which you may have been known by (this will help us identify all your personal information held).
- Identification & proof of address. Details of suitable identification can be found further down the page.
- Why you want to restrict the processing of your data.
When applying to exercise your right to data portability, please provide the following information:
- Details of cases/complaints/appeals reference numbers.
- Your full name and address, including any other names which you may have been known by (this will help us identify all your personal information held).
- Identification & proof of address. Details of suitable identification can be found further down the page.
- The format you would like us to send your data to you
Please note that the right of data portability applies only to data that you have supplied to us.
When applying to exercise your right to object to us processing your data, please provide the following information:
- Details of cases/complaints/appeals reference numbers.
- Your full name and address, including any other names which you may have been known by (this will help us identify all your personal information held).
- Identification & proof of address. Details of suitable identification can be found further down the page.
- The reason you object to the processing of your data.
Please note your right in relation to automated decision making and profiling is not a practice currently used by the IOPC for decision making or profiling and therefore not applicable.
Please choose one form of identity from each of the lists below.
Proof of identity:
- Passport (the pages with photograph and personal details)
- Driving licence
- Birth certificate
- Adoption certificate
Proof of address
These documents must have your name and address on it and be dated within the last three months. This address will be used to post your information to you.
- Utility bill (not including mobile phone bill)
- Bank statement
- Credit card statement
- Landline phone bill
- Council tax bill
- Letter from a job centre of Department of Work and Pensions
- Letter from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
- Letter from the Ministry of Justice
- Letter from the Home Office
- Letter from the UK Border Agency
- Letter from the Probation Trust
- Letter from a Police Force
Copies of the above documents should be scanned in colour (black and white will not be accepted) and emailed to foi@policeconduct.gov.uk. Colour photocopies can be sent to us by post at the address at the top of this letter.
If you have any problems with providing colour scans of documents or colour photocopies, your local library may be able to help you to use its computers or photocopiers. To find out where your local library is, you can contact your local council.
Information we hold about you
You the right to find out what information we hold about you (and only you), which gives you the opportunity to correct any inaccurate information.
Freedom of Information Act
This Act gives you the right to access recorded information we hold. It is often used to ask questions about how the organisation works – for example, how many investigators work for us or how much we spend on travel. It also allows people to request copies of IOPC reports (where these are not about you). Before submitting a request it may be worth reviewing our disclosure logs in the section below, which contain responses we have previously supplied following requests made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Find out how to request recorded information about the IOPC.
Environmental information
Under the Environmental Information Regulations, you can ask for information about the effect we have on the environment. For example, how much we recycle and how many cars we use.
Find out how to request environmental information about the IOPC.
You can make personal data, Freedom of Information or environmental information requests by emailing requestinfo@policeconduct.gov.uk.
For general inquiries please email: enquiries@policeconduct.gov.uk
For further information:
The Information Commissioner
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Email: casework@ico.gsi.gov.uk
Switchboard: 0303 123 1113
Fax: 01625 524 510
https://ico.org.uk/
The Information Commissioner oversees enforcement of the Data Protection Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations. The website provides assistance to the public on how to exercise their rights under these Acts and has guidance for public authorities on implementing the legislation.