FOI 344-2025 / Mar 2025 / Officer misconduct
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 344-2025
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 20th March 2025 as follows:
I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 regarding police officer misconduct. Please could you provide the following information:
-The total number of police officers accused of misconduct
-A breakdown in the gender and ethnicity of the accused officers
-A breakdown of the rank of the officer, including their salary bands at the time of the alleged misconduct
- A breakdown of the number that proceeded to a misconduct hearing
-The outcomes of cases that proceeded to a misconduct hearing
-A breakdown of the type of misconduct alleged, including but not limited to dishonesty, abuse of authority, discrimination, sexual abuse
-The outcomes of hearings for each type of misconduct.
-The number of officers who resigned before the proceedings were completed
-The number of officers placed on paid vetting leave while awaiting a misconduct hearing or retrial, and the average duration of this leave
I would like this data for the last four years, including 2025. However, if this time frame is too broad, I am happy to refine the scope to three years.
Please provide the data in an excel document.
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Response: Please be advised that the requested information is not centrally recorded and is therefore not held in a readily retrievable format. The business area has advised that in order to provide a response to the request it would be necessary to individually review each record and manually extract, where held, the requested information. A scoping exercise based on conduct cases recorded in the last 3 years, identified that 172 records would require manual review and that this would take approximately 20 minutes per record. An estimate of the cost involved for this work is set out below:
172 records @ 20 minutes per record (to review) = 57.33 hours
57.33 hours @ £25 per hour = £1,433.33
The time and cost would be higher for a 4-year period
Therefore, the work involved in determining the information requested exceeds the cost threshold (£450), which equates to 18 hours work at a standard rate of £25 per hour, as stated in the Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.
In accordance with Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, this letter acts as a Refusal Notice for this request.
In accordance with Section 16 of the Act, I have a duty to provide advice and assistance in relation to refining your request; however, due to the volume of records that would need to be individually reviewed, I am unable to suggest a way to reduce the request into one that could be managed within the fees limit.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
Your attention is drawn to the below which details your right of complaint.
Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter, please write or email the Freedom of Information Unit quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB