Police officer misconduct 78/2025

FOI Reference: 078/2025

Request:

1. The total number of police officers accused of misconduct
2. A breakdown of the number that proceeded to a misconduct hearing
3. A breakdown of the outcomes in each case that proceeded to a misconduct hearing
4. A breakdown of the type of misconduct alleged (e.g. Dishonesty, abuse of authority, discrimination)
5. Please provide copies of summaries of the Modus Operandi (MO) sections for incident reports relating to misconduct cases that went to a hearing ensuring that all personal data is redacted to align with privacy regulation.
6. The outcome of the above hearings
7. How many officers resigned before the proceedings were completed

Clarification:

Clarification was sought from the applicant and the applicant confirmed that information was sought for the past 4 years.

Response 1:

Please note: The information for all questions has been provided in fiscal year format.

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

Please see the below hyperlinks; the information sought is under CM1 & RC1 tabs for 2022 – 2024:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-misconduct-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2024

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-misconduct-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2023

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-misconduct-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2022

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-misconduct-england-and-wales-year-ending-31-march-2021

Response 2:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

Response 3&6:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

Response 4:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

Response 5:

Please note: In respect of the below response we have interpreted incident report to mean an incident log recorded on the force command and control system.

I can confirm that there is no information held/recorded by Dyfed Powys police in respect of question 5 as there are zero (0) incident reports relating to misconduct cases that went to a hearing.

Response 7:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 17/03/25)