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IOPC Deaths During or Following Police Contact

These are recorded deaths by the IOPC’s category and financial year. Counts are not population-adjusted rates and do not establish fault or causation.

3,767 deaths recorded Highest total: Metropolitan

Annual statistics from the Independent Office for Police Conduct on deaths involving police. Source. Also see: IOPC Learning Recommendations.

Deaths by category over time

Stacked by category · all years

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Key findings.

3,767 deaths recorded across all years. Metropolitan has the highest total death count of any force.

Up to ten forces with the highest recorded death totals

All indexed years · counts

Totals are not adjusted for force population, activity or years on record.

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ForceDeaths
Metropolitan436
Greater Manchester252
West Midlands199
West Yorkshire194
Devon & Cornwall128
Northumbria118
Sussex115
Thames Valley113
South Wales105
Lancashire105

National summary by year

Year Total deaths In or following custody Fatal shootings Road traffic Apparent suicides Other contact
2025/2026 176 27 4 15 67 63
2024/2025 160 18 2 26 61 53
2023/2024 190 25 2 32 68 63
2022/2023 200 23 3 28 54 92
2021/2022 226 12 2 42 57 113
2020/2021 197 19 1 25 55 97
2019/2020 207 18 4 24 54 107
2018/2019 281 17 3 42 63 156
2017/2018 294 23 7 29 57 178
2016/2017 239 14 6 32 56 131
2015/2016 99 14 3 21 61 0
2014/2015 147 18 1 14 71 43
2013/2014 137 11 0 12 70 44
2012/2013 133 15 0 31 65 22
2011/2012 122 15 2 19 39 47
2010/2011 95 21 2 26 46 0
2009/2010 141 17 2 29 54 39
2008/2009 149 15 3 40 56 35
2007/2008 127 22 5 24 45 31
2006/2007 133 27 1 36 47 22
2005/2006 161 28 5 48 40 40
2004/2005 153 36 3 44 46 24

2025/2026 · force-level data

Force Total In or following custody Shootings RTA Suicides Other
Avon & Somerset 9 0 0 0 4 5
Bedfordshire 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire 1 0 0 0 0 1
British Transport Police 1 0 0 0 0 1
Cambridgeshire 1 0 0 0 0 1
Cheshire 3 0 0 0 0 3
City of London 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cleveland 1 0 0 0 1 0
Cumbria 0 0 0 0 0 0
Derbyshire 4 0 0 0 3 1
Devon & Cornwall 4 1 0 1 1 1
Dorset 2 1 0 0 0 1
Durham 6 1 0 0 2 3
Dyfed-Powys 4 1 0 0 3 0
Essex 4 0 0 1 2 1
Gloucestershire 1 0 0 0 1 0
Greater Manchester 14 5 2 0 3 4
Gwent 2 0 0 0 1 1
Hampshire 9 3 0 0 1 5
Hertfordshire 2 0 0 1 1 0
HMRC 0 0 0 0 0 0
Home Office 0 0 0 0 0 0
Humberside 1 0 0 0 1 0
Kent 4 1 0 1 2 0
Lancashire 8 2 0 1 5 0
Leicestershire 4 1 0 0 0 3
Lincolnshire 2 1 0 0 1 0
Merseyside 9 3 0 0 1 5
Metropolitan 17 1 0 6 5 5
Ministry of Defence 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norfolk 2 0 1 0 1 0
Northamptonshire 1 0 0 0 1 0
Northumbria 12 1 0 1 8 2
North Wales 1 0 0 0 1 0
North Yorkshire 2 1 0 0 1 0
Nottinghamshire 3 0 0 0 0 3
Nottinghamshire & Lincolnshire 1 0 0 0 0 1
SOCA / NCA 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Yorkshire 7 0 0 0 6 1
Staffordshire 3 1 0 0 0 2
Suffolk 0 0 0 0 0 0
Surrey 2 0 0 0 1 1
Sussex 2 0 0 0 1 1
Thames Valley 7 1 1 0 3 2
Warwickshire 3 0 0 0 2 1
West Mercia 4 0 0 0 1 3
West Midlands 5 2 0 2 1 0
West Yorkshire 5 0 0 1 1 3
Wiltshire 3 0 0 0 1 2