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IOPC Learning Recommendations

361 cases 747 recommendations 656 accepted 37 not accepted 54 awaiting

747 recommendations across 361 police conduct investigations. Data scraped from policeconduct.gov.uk.

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Showing 68 of 361 cases

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police, November 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceReference 2022/1769391 indexed recommendation

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, September 2026

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 30 Sep 2026Reference 2025/0157311 indexed recommendation

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, September 2026

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 25 Sep 2026Reference 2025/0170971 indexed recommendation

Use of force and armed policing · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, July 2026

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 8 Jul 2026Reference 2024/0080771 indexed recommendation

Domestic abuse · Death and serious injury · Violence against women and girls · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, June 2026

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 24 Jun 2026Reference 2025/0037641 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people · Death and serious injury · Mental health · Violence against women and girls

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, May 2026

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 20 May 2026Reference 2025/0027951 indexed recommendation

Violence against women and girls · Welfare and vulnerable people · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, February 2026

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 26 Feb 2026Reference 2024/2011501 indexed recommendation

Race discrimination · Discrimination

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, January 2026

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 13 Jan 2026Reference 2025/0049542 indexed recommendations

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, December 2025

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 17 Dec 2025Reference 2023/1858601 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, December 2025

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 15 Dec 2025Reference 2023/1874471 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people · Custody and detention

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, July 2025

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 8 Jul 2025Reference 2024/0036331 indexed recommendation

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service and Ministry of Justice, March 2025

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 20 Mar 2025Reference 2024/2004691 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, November 2024

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 4 Dec 2024Reference 2021/1535112 indexed recommendations

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response Recommendation 2: Awaiting Response

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, October 2024

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 16 Oct 2024Reference 2023/1898141 indexed recommendation

Recommendation: Accepted

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, September 2024

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 23 Sep 2024Reference 2022/1746333 indexed recommendations

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Not Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Not Accepted

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, June 2024

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 4 Jun 2024Reference 2023/1825423 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Accepted

Police contact with a woman and her partner, prior to the woman’s death – Metropolitan Police Service, May 2022

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 13 May 2024Reference 2022/1701638 indexed recommendations

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Accepted Recommendation 4: Accepted Recommendation 5: Accepted Recommendation 6: Accepted Recommendation 7: Awaiting Response Recommendation 8: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, March 2024

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 12 Mar 2024Reference 2022/1764711 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, December 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 18 Dec 2023Reference 2022/1701121 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention · Mental health

Recommendation 1: Accepted

National recommendation - Home Office, September 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 13 Sep 2023Reference 2021/1527051 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

National recommendations relating to 'Wayne Couzens failures' - National Police Chiefs' Council and College of Policing, August 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 7 Aug 2023Reference 2021/150091 and 2021/1525913 indexed recommendations

National recommendation 1: Accepted National recommendation 2: Accepted National recommendation 3: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, August 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 1 Aug 2023Reference 2021/1625601 indexed recommendation

Use of force and armed policing

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Handling of missing person inquiry - Metropolitan Police Service, March 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 30 May 2023Reference 2021/1513977 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Accepted Recommendation 4: Accepted Recommendation 5: Accepted Recommendation 6: Accepted Recommendation 7: Accepted

Failure to investigate indecent exposure – Metropolitan Police Service, February 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 22 May 2023Reference 2021/1500913 indexed recommendations

Corruption and abuse of power

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Accepted

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, May 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 16 May 2023Reference 2021/1624962 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendation responses by force

Acceptance rate is the share of all indexed recommendations in cases naming each force that are marked accepted, rounded to a whole percent. Awaiting and unknown statuses remain in the denominator. This table covers the full collection, regardless of the filters above. Acceptance does not establish implementation.

Overall acceptance status

Unknown statuses are not shown in this chart.


Avon and Somerset Constabulary	8	8	0	0	100%
Bedfordshire Police	5	12	0	0	100%
Cambridgeshire Constabulary	7	14	0	0	100%
Cheshire Constabulary	4	5	0	0	100%
City of London Police	1	1	0	0	100%
Civil Nuclear Constabulary	1	1	0	0	100%
Cumbria Constabulary	2	2	0	0	100%
Durham Constabulary	3	6	0	0	100%
Gloucestershire Constabulary	1	8	0	0	100%
Home Office	1	1	0	0	100%
Lancashire Constabulary	4	5	0	0	100%
Leicestershire Police	2	7	0	0	100%
Lincolnshire Police	1	1	0	0	100%
North Wales Police	2	4	0	0	100%
North Yorkshire Police	5	8	0	0	100%
Northamptonshire Police	2	3	0	0	100%
Northumbria Police	6	10	0	0	100%
Nottinghamshire Police	4	8	0	0	100%
Staffordshire Police	3	3	0	0	100%
Warwickshire Police	1	1	0	0	100%
West Mercia Police	1	1	0	0	100%
South Wales Police	11	20	1	0	95%
Cleveland Police	8	16	1	0	94%
Suffolk Constabulary	7	15	0	1	94%
Wiltshire Police	5	16	1	0	94%
Derbyshire Constabulary	6	13	0	1	93%
Devon and Cornwall Police	6	11	0	1	92%
Greater Manchester Police	24	36	2	1	92%
West Midlands Police	6	12	0	1	92%
Kent Police	5	10	1	0	91%
Hertfordshire Constabulary	4	9	0	1	90%
Surrey Police	5	9	0	1	90%
Sussex Police	18	44	0	5	90%
British Transport Police	2	8	1	0	89%
Humberside Police	4	6	1	0	86%
Metropolitan Police Service	68	126	11	9	86%
Thames Valley Police	7	14	3	0	82%
Essex Police	17	29	4	3	81%
Hampshire Constabulary	6	8	2	0	80%
South Yorkshire Police	4	15	4	0	79%
West Yorkshire Police	20	32	6	3	78%
Merseyside Police	8	7	3	0	70%
Norfolk Constabulary	5	4	3	0	57%
Dorset Police	1	0	1	0	0%
Gwent Police	1	0	2	0	0%