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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.

3,717 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.

3,717 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 Manchester249
West Midlands199
West Yorkshire193
Devon & Cornwall128
Northumbria118
Sussex115
Thames Valley113
South Wales105
Kent101

National summary by year

Year Total deaths Custody Following custody Fatal shootings Road traffic Apparent suicides
2025/2026 165 27 0 4 14 59
2024/2025 157 18 0 2 26 61
2023/2024 186 25 0 2 32 68
2022/2023 196 23 0 3 28 54
2021/2022 219 12 0 2 42 57
2020/2021 192 19 0 1 25 55
2019/2020 203 18 0 4 24 54
2018/2019 275 17 0 3 42 63
2017/2018 288 23 0 7 29 57
2016/2017 239 14 0 6 32 56
2015/2016 99 14 0 3 21 61
2014/2015 147 18 0 1 14 71
2013/2014 137 11 0 0 12 70
2012/2013 133 15 0 0 31 65
2011/2012 122 15 0 2 19 39
2010/2011 95 21 0 2 26 46
2009/2010 141 17 0 2 29 54
2008/2009 149 15 0 3 40 56
2007/2008 127 22 0 5 24 45
2006/2007 133 27 0 1 36 47
2005/2006 161 28 0 5 48 40
2004/2005 153 36 0 3 44 46

2025/2026 · force-level data

Force Total Custody Following Shootings RTA Suicides Other
Avon & Somerset 9 0 0 0 0 4 5
Bedfordshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
British Transport 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
British Transport Police 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cambridgeshire 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Cheshire 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
City of London 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cleveland 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Cumbria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Derbyshire 4 0 0 0 0 3 1
Devon & Cornwall 4 1 0 0 1 1 1
Dorset 2 1 0 0 0 0 1
Durham 6 1 0 0 0 2 3
Dyfed-Powys 4 1 0 0 0 3 0
Essex 4 0 0 0 1 2 1
Gloucestershire 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Greater Manchester 11 5 0 2 0 0 4
Gwent 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
Hampshire 9 3 0 0 0 1 5
Hertfordshire 2 0 0 0 1 1 0
HMRC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Home Office 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Humberside 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Kent 4 1 0 0 1 2 0
Lancashire 3 2 0 0 1 0 0
Leicestershire 4 1 0 0 0 0 3
Lincolnshire 2 1 0 0 0 1 0
Merseyside 9 3 0 0 0 1 5
Metropolitan 17 1 0 0 6 5 5
Ministry of Defence 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Norfolk 2 0 0 1 0 1 0
Northamptonshire 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Northumbria 12 1 0 0 1 8 2
North Wales 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
North Yorkshire 2 1 0 0 0 1 0
Nottinghamshire 3 0 0 0 0 0 3
SOCA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SOCA / NCA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Yorkshire 7 0 0 0 0 6 1
Staffordshire 3 1 0 0 0 0 2
Suffolk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Surrey 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
Sussex 2 0 0 0 0 1 1
Thames Valley 7 1 0 1 0 3 2
Warwickshire 3 0 0 0 0 2 1
West Mercia 4 0 0 0 0 1 3
West Midlands 5 2 0 0 2 1 0
West Yorkshire 4 0 0 0 0 1 3
Wiltshire 3 0 0 0 0 1 2