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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.

361 cases

Recommendations - Sussex Police

Sussex PoliceReference 2022/1687703 indexed recommendations

Death and serious injury

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

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 - College of Policing, September 2026

Recommended 17 Sep 2026Reference 2024/0014261 indexed recommendation

Domestic abuse

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

Recommendations - College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council

Recommended 9 Jul 2026Reference 2025/0065252 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people · Mental health · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

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 - National Police Chiefs' Council, June 2026

Recommended 26 Jun 2026Reference 2025/0076891 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Essex Police, June 2026

Essex PoliceRecommended 24 Jun 2026Reference 2025/0069571 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

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 - Avon and Somerset Constabulary, June 2026

Avon and Somerset ConstabularyRecommended 17 Jun 2026Reference 2025/0055951 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people · Custody and detention

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendations - Leicestershire Police and the Office of the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, June 2026

Leicestershire PoliceRecommended 16 Jun 2026Reference 2025/0080552 indexed recommendations

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendations - West Yorkshire Police, May 2026

West Yorkshire PoliceRecommended 27 May 2026Reference 2024/0014265 indexed recommendations

Domestic abuse · Welfare and vulnerable people

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

Recommendation - Dorset Police, May 2026

Dorset PoliceRecommended 21 May 2026Reference 2025/0164981 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury · Mental health

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 - Warwickshire Police, May 2026

Warwickshire PoliceRecommended 6 May 2026Reference 2024/0108551 indexed recommendation

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendations - Wiltshire Police, April 2026

Wiltshire PoliceRecommended 29 Apr 2026Reference 2024/0085822 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Police, April 2026

Avon and Somerset ConstabularyRecommended 29 Apr 2026Reference 2024/0085821 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Police and Wiltshire Police, April 2026

Wiltshire PoliceRecommended 29 Apr 2026Reference 2024/0085821 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Derbyshire Constabulary, April 2026

Derbyshire ConstabularyRecommended 24 Apr 2026Reference 2025/0133151 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Not Accepted

Recommendation - Derbyshire Constabulary, April 2026

Derbyshire ConstabularyRecommended 24 Apr 2026Reference 2025/0153251 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Northumbria Police, April 2026

Northumbria PoliceRecommended 16 Apr 2026Reference 2025/0085401 indexed recommendation

Violence against women and girls · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Hertfordshire Constabulary, April 2026

Hertfordshire ConstabularyRecommended 15 Apr 2026Reference 2025/0069671 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - College of Policing, March 2026

Recommended 30 Mar 2026Reference 2025/0015741 indexed recommendation

Use of force and armed policing · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - College of Policing, March 2026

Recommended 24 Mar 2026Reference 2025/0055951 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention

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%