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.
February 2022
The February disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Grants and loans made to organisations
- Deaths by suicide following contact with Cambridgeshire Police
- Referral following the death of Leon McCaskre
- Referrals regarding sexual misconduct by police officers
- Misconduct allegations against PC John Apter Hampshire Constabulary
- Officers from Forest Gate police stations involved in WhatsApp messages
- IOPC Workforce criminal and disciplinary background
- Office attendance
January 2022
The January disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- IOPC staff who are ex police officers
- IOPC IT Security Strategy
- Downing Street lockdown parties
December 2021
The December disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Stonewall funding
- Outcome bias training
- Operation Coinage
- Operation Embley – whistleblowing allegations
- Stonewall membership
November 2021
The November disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Outcomes of misconduct hearings directed by the IOPC
- Telephony and information communications services
- Abuse of power for a sexual purpose prosecutions
- Communications and marketing
- Discrimination complaints against the Metropolitan Police
October 2021
The October disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- IOPC workforce with policing background
- Accrington incident investigation
September 2021
The September disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Hertfordshire Constabulary investigation report – PC Musto
- Investigations of police conduct following murder by a partner
- Accrington incident independent investigation
- Complaints about West Yorkshire Police
August 2021
The August disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Misconduct notices and disciplinary proceedings
- Wayne Couzens referrals
- IOPC workforce
- Service of Regulation 16 notices involving criminal allegations
- Accrington incident investigation file
July 2021
The July disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Trainee investigator diversity
- IOPC’s travel management contract
- SAR quality control process
- Investigation relating to PC Benjamin Kemp
- Complaints and outcomes
- Corruption allegations
- Referrals relating to Cressida Dick
- Deaths by suicide
June 2021
The June disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- IOPC Governance
- Cost of Judicial Reviews
- Detainees taken straight to cell
- Former police officers working for the IOPC
- Deaths in or following police custody
May 2021
The May disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- MOI Referrals
- Ethnicity and age profile breakdown of deaths in or following police custody
- Operational guidance following legislation changes in February 2020
- Hertfordshire Police complaints statistics
- IOPC fleet vehicles
- Apprenticeships
- Alternative Dispute Resolution process
- Disclosure of body worn video and CCTV footage
- Complaints against South Wales Police
- Complaints involving BAME complainants
- Investigation involving SWP’s recovery of the body of Christopher Kapessa
- IOPC employee background
April 2021
The April disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Management and staffing of Operation Nori
- Retention of CCTV footage by police
- Outsourced ICT suppliers and services
- IOPC staff complaints 2016
- Unconscious bias
- IOPC staff disciplinaries
- Exceptional circumstances in the complaints process
- Communications related to Sarah Everard
- Technologies used for IOPC functions
- Referrals received from Greater Manchester Police
- Monitoring of mandatory referrals by police forces
- DSI in or following police custody involving mental health
- Police officers charged with a criminal offence
- Allegations of sexual misconduct against police
- Referrals regarding abuse of power for sexual purpose
March 2021
The March disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Deaths in or following police custody investigations
- Staffing and management of Operation Nori
- Retention of custody CCTV
- ICT suppliers providing outsourced services
- IOPC staff complaints
- Police dog biting incident
- Application to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion
- Unconscious bias training
January 2021
The January disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- IOPC policy and guidance on incapacitant sprays
- Operation Ector GMP – Abuse of position for a sexual purpose
- Memoranda of Understanding
- Criteria for cases subject to IOPC independent investigation
- Equality and Diversity training
- Northumbria Police non recording appeals
- Operation Nori
- Referrals of MPS Commanders
- Complaints against about IOPC staff
- Body worn video footage
- IOPC membership of Stonewall UK Diversity Champions programme
December 2020
The December disclosure log includes the following responses to requests:
- Appeals data by police force
- Northumbria Police appeals data
- Outcomes of complaints regarding perjury
- Referrals relating to stop and search under the Terrorism Act
- Operation Redrail 2
- TASER complaints
- Definition of serious corruption
- Complaints about IOPC staff
- Implementation of Resourcelink
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 Retention and Disposal Schedule (also available in Welsh).
The IOPC came under the Public Records Act (PRA 1958) in January 2018. Should you wish to know more, please see the Appraisal Policy (also available in Welsh).
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.