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Q1. How many reports of domestic abuse have been logged against serving police officers and police staff between January 2020 and January 2024?
Q2. How many of those reports made between January 2020 -and January 2024 resulted in: a) a criminal trial, b) criminal charges, but no trial; c) a formal misconduct investigation; d) a misconduct hearing; e) a finding of misconduct; f) a finding of gross misconduct; g) a written warning; h) No further Action /No case to answer
Q3. How many police officers or police staff resigned, retired, or left for other reasons, following allegations of domestic abuse related offences from January 2020 to January 2024?
Q4. How many police officers or police staff who have resigned, retired, or left for other reasons following allegations of domestic abuse related offences from January 2020 to January 2024, have been rehired in any capacity by the police service?
Q5. Does your police service have policies and procedures specific to responding to allegations of police perpetrated domestic abuse?
Q6. If you answered yes to question 5, has your force updated policies and procedures specific to responding to allegations of police perpetrated domestic abuse since the Super-Complaint by the Centre for Women’s Justice in March 2020?
Q7. If you answered yes to question 6, please provide details of any updates and a copy of your current policy and operational guidance on PPDA. If you answered no, please still provide your policy and operational guidance on PPDA.
Q8. Police forces are required to report the number of misconduct cases and criminal investigations involving PPDA and their outcomes to the Home Office, does your force currently do this?
Q9. As of June 2022 in the IT system Centurian, VAWG-police perpetrated and VAWG- police injured party and domestic abuse should be available to select as an option. Does your police service currently use these options to capture this data?
Q10. Has your police service made any improvements since 2020 to the way it captures data relating to cases of PPDA? If yes, please explain.
Q11. Does your police service deliver training specific to responding to allegations of police perpetrated domestic abuse?
Q12. If you answered yes to question 11, please advise in numbers how many officers and staff have received that training up to the end of January 2024.
Q13. Is the PPDA training
Q14. What procedures does your force have in place to support police victims of PPDA?
Q15. Given that s.29(4) of the Police Reform Act 2002 precludes police officers and police employees from making a police complaint against anyone who is under the direction and control of the same Chief Officer, does your police service treat reports of PPDA where the victim is a police officer or police employee as a conduct matter (as defined in s.12 PRA 2002)?
Q16. If you answered yes to question 15, does your force treat the police victim as an “interested person” in the misconduct investigation?
Q17. Does your force have any policy or procedure for referring the investigation of PPDA allegations against a member of your force to an external force for investigation? If so, please provide details.
Q18. Does your police service have any policy or procedure for accepting referrals from another force of forces for your force to investigate allegations of PPDA made against members of their force? If so, please provide details.
Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information
To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.
Decision
I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.
Q1. Please see the table below which details the number of allegations of domestic abuse which have been made against serving police officers and police staff by North Yorkshire Police between 01 January 2020 and 31 December 2023, broken down by year.
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
8 |
Q2. Please see the table below which details the outcomes of the above finalised allegations of domestic abuse which have been made against serving police officers and police staff by North Yorkshire Police between 01 January 2020 and 31 December 2023. I am exempting an annual breakdown of these outcomes pursuant to Section 40(2) of the act. Please see the full exemption explanation at the end of this letter.
Outcome |
2020 - 2023 |
Criminal trial |
2 |
Written warning |
2 |
No further Action /No case to answer |
5 |
De-Recorded |
1 |
I note that all allegations of misconduct are the subject of a formal misconduct investigation.
Q3. This information is exempt pursuant to section 12(2) of the act. Please see the exemption explanation below.
Q4. This information is exempt pursuant to section 12(2) of the act. Please see the exemption explanation below.
Q5. Yes
Q6. Yes
Q7. North Yorkshire Police introduced Operation Pledge, a new operation to tackle PPDA. See the documents at the end of this letter.
Q8. Yes
Q9. Yes
Q10. We use centurion factors to record PPDA
Q11. No. Some specialist training (Savelives in 2023) has been provided across a mix of departments including Safeguarding, PSD and CIDs.
Q12. 30 places were available – we cannot confirm if these were all taken.
Q13. Voluntary
Q14. Please see the attached document for the Op Pledge Victim guidence
Q15. Yes
Q16. Yes
Q17. No, any referral is assessed on a case by case basis.
Q18. No, any referral is assessed on a case by case basis.
Exemption Explanation
Your request for information below has now been considered. In respect of Section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) we can neither confirm nor deny if North Yorkshire Police does or does not hold the information you have requested. It is estimated that the cost of complying with your request for information would exceed the “appropriate costs limit” under Section 12(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Section 12 (2) allows a public authority to refuse a request where it estimates that it would exceed to appropriate limit to either comply with the request in its entirety or confirm or deny whether the requested information is held.
Due to the nature of our recording systems; the information requested, if held, is not in an easily retrievable format. To establish if any information relevant to your request is held by North Yorkshire Police, a manual review of each case file across the requested time frame would be required. Furthermore, the reasons officer leave the force are not mandatorily recorded so any information, if held may not be accurate.
Pursuant to Section 17(5) of the Freedom of Information Act this letter acts as a Refusal Notice.
Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.