Complaints against Police Officers for sexual and racial misconduct

Freedom of information request reference no: 01.FOI.25.047958

I note you seek access to the following information:

REQUEST 1:
Please disclose the details of official complaints made against serving police officers under your remit in the past 5 years in regards to sexual assault, harassment and other forms of sexual misconduct.

Specifically:

1. How many accusations were made against serving police officers
2. and when
3. How many allegations were upheld
4. How many of the upheld charges resulted in disciplinary action
5. What disciplinary actions were enforced
6. and when
7. Any information on the reasons for retaining or dismissing officers who faced disciplinary actions
8. Any information on police codes of conduct/learning resources surrounding abuse of power, sexual misconduct.

Please send the above separated by year.

REQUEST 2:
Please disclose the details of official complaints made against serving police officers under your remit in the past 5 years in regards to racial abuse , racist harassment and other forms of racial discrimination, especially pertaining to Islamophobia.

Specifically:

1. How many accusations were made against serving police officers
2. and when
3. How many allegations were upheld
4. How many of the upheld charges resulted in disciplinary action
5. What disciplinary actions were enforced
6. and when
7. Any information on the reasons for retaining or dismissing officers who faced disciplinary actions
8. Any information on police codes of conduct/learning resources surrounding abuse of power, sexual misconduct.

Please send the above separated by year.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you in full. Please find below information pursuant to your request above.

For Request 1, you have asked -

Please disclose the details of official complaints made against serving police officers under your remit in the past 5 years in regards to sexual assault, harassment and other forms of sexual misconduct.

1. Specifically:

   1. How many accusations were made against serving police officers
   2. and when
   3. How many allegations were upheld
   4. How many of the upheld charges resulted in disciplinary action
   5. What disciplinary actions were enforced
   6. and when
   7. Any information on the reasons for retaining or dismissing officers who faced disciplinary actions
   8. Any information on police codes of conduct/learning resources surrounding abuse of power, sexual misconduct.

Please send the above separated by year.

I am pleased to confirm that the information you are seeking is held by the MPS and is already publicly available. You can access this data by downloading it via the link provided below:

MPS | Sexual Offences and Domestic Abuse

For Request 2, you have asked -

Please disclose the details of official complaints made against serving police officers under your remit in the past 5 years in regards to racial abuse , racist harassment and other forms of racial discrimination, especially pertaining to Islamophobia.

Specifically:
1. How many accusations were made against serving police officers
2. and when
3. How many allegations were upheld
4. How many of the upheld charges resulted in disciplinary action
5. What disciplinary actions were enforced
6. and when
7. Any information on the reasons for retaining or dismissing officers who faced disciplinary actions
8. Any information on police codes of conduct/learning resources surrounding abuse of power, sexual misconduct.

Please send the above separated by year.

I am pleased to confirm that the information you are seeking is held by the MPS, please refer to the below spreadsheet.