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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 Service, February 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 8 Feb 2023Reference 2020/1363041 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, January 2023

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 16 Jan 2023Reference 2020/1344561 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Investigation into the stop and search and arrest of a man prior to a shooting at a police custody centre – Metropolitan Police Service, September 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 7 Nov 2022Reference 2020/1429871 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Investigation into conduct of PCSO at crime scene - Metropolitan Police Service, September 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 20 Jun 2022Reference 2021/1650291 indexed recommendation

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Operation Hotton recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, September 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 27 Jan 202215 indexed recommendations

Corruption and abuse of power · Discrimination

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Accepted Recommendation 4: Accepted Recommendation 5: Accepted Recommendation 6: Accepted Recommendation 7: Accepted Recommendation 8: Accepted Recommendation 9: Accepted Recommendation 10: Accepted Recommendation 11: Accepted Recommendation 12: Accepted Recommendation 13: Accepted Recommendation 14: Accepted Recommendation 15: Accepted

Investigation into police pursuit and subsequent road traffic incident - Metropolitan Police Service, March 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 24 Jan 2022Reference 2021/1510563 indexed recommendations

Road traffic incidents

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

Inappropriate photographs taken at crime scene – Metropolitan Police Service, June 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 20 Jan 2022Reference 2020/138174 and 2020/1397392 indexed recommendations

Corruption and abuse of power · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Police contact with a mother and unborn child subject to child protection - Metropolitan Police Service, February 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 29 Nov 2021Reference 2021/1489462 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Police contact with woman prior to her death - Metropolitan Police Service, October 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 20 Oct 2021Reference 2020/1446982 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Reported concerns of welfare and subsequent police actions to conduct a missing persons investigation – Metropolitan Police Service, June 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 19 Oct 2021Reference 2020/137384, 2020/138858 and 2021/1493063 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

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

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, August 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 6 Aug 2021Reference 2017/0942153 indexed recommendations

Corruption and abuse of power

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

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, June 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 14 Jun 2021Reference 2019/1226381 indexed recommendation

Domestic abuse · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Not Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police, June 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 3 Jun 2021Reference 2020/1403521 indexed recommendation

Use of force and armed policing

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Man died after his detention and restraint by police – Norfolk Constabulary, August 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 5 May 2021Reference 2020/1409211 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, March 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 18 Mar 2021Reference 2019/1222223 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

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

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police, February 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 4 Feb 2021Reference 2020/1337091 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, January 2021

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 21 Jan 2021Reference 2020/1381301 indexed recommendation

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Road traffic collision following police pursuit – Metropolitan Police Service, November 2019

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 8 Dec 2020Reference 2019/1286172 indexed recommendations

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Traffic pursuit prior to man's death - Metropolitan Police Service, December 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 4 Dec 2020Reference 2019/1177192 indexed recommendations

Death and serious injury · Road traffic incidents

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Investigations into the actions surrounding a missing persons enquiry - Metropolitan Police Service, December 2019

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 3 Dec 2020Reference 2019/1290221 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, November 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 25 Nov 2020Reference 2020/1341321 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, November 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 19 Nov 2020Reference 2019/1232261 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police, October 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 22 Oct 2020Reference 2020/1346761 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Not Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, October 2020

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 9 Oct 2020Reference 2019/1232851 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation, Stop and search, Deptford - Metropolitan Police, February 2018

Metropolitan Police ServiceRecommended 21 Aug 2020Reference 2018/1010761 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention · Discrimination

Recommendation 1: 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%