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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 - Essex Police, May 2025

Essex PoliceRecommended 1 May 2025Reference 2022/1788393 indexed recommendations

Recommendations 1 & 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Accepted Recommendation 4: Accepted

Recommendations - College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council, April 2025

Recommended 15 Apr 2025Reference 2023/1977772 indexed recommendations

Custody and detention

Recommendation1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendations - Gloucestershire Constabulary, March 2025

Gloucestershire ConstabularyRecommended 25 Mar 2025Reference 2021/1597238 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: Accepted Recommendation 8: Accepted

Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Police, March 2025

Avon and Somerset ConstabularyRecommended 25 Mar 2025Reference 2024/003706, 2024/002719, 2024/0038301 indexed recommendation

Domestic abuse · Violence against women and girls

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

Recommendation - College of Policing, February 2025

Recommended 20 Feb 2025Reference 2022/1705391 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Avon and Somerset Constabulary, February 2025

Avon and Somerset ConstabularyRecommended 18 Feb 2025Reference 2023/1990341 indexed recommendation

Child sexual abuse

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Sussex Police, January 2025

Sussex PoliceRecommended 29 Jan 2025Reference 2024/0022321 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendations - North Wales Police, January 2025

North Wales PoliceRecommended 21 Jan 2025Reference 2024/0014322 indexed recommendations

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendations - Thames Valley Police, December 2024

Thames Valley PoliceRecommended 18 Dec 2024Reference 2021/1483392 indexed recommendations

Use of force and armed policing · Welfare and vulnerable people · Custody and detention · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendations - National Police Chiefs' Council, December 2024

Recommended 18 Dec 2024Reference 2021/1483394 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people · Custody and detention · Death and serious injury · Use of force and armed policing

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

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 - South Wales Police, November 2024

South Wales PoliceRecommended 4 Nov 2024Reference 2023/1983011 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation: Accepted

Recommendations - Cambridgeshire Constabulary, October 2024

Cambridgeshire ConstabularyRecommended 24 Oct 2024Reference 2022/1781042 indexed recommendations

Road traffic incidents

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendation - College of Policing, October 2024

Recommended 24 Oct 2024Reference 2022/1781041 indexed recommendation

Road traffic incidents

Recommendation: Not Accepted

Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, October 2024

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

Recommendation: Accepted

Recommendations - Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies, October 2024

Suffolk ConstabularyRecommended 15 Oct 2024Reference 2023/1927262 indexed recommendations

Road traffic incidents

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: 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 - Sussex Police, September 2024

Sussex PoliceRecommended 11 Sep 2024Reference 2023/1873653 indexed recommendations

Domestic abuse

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

Recommendation - Home Office, September 2024

Home OfficeRecommended 11 Sep 2024Reference 2023/1873651 indexed recommendation

Domestic abuse

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendation - Hampshire Constabulary, September 2024

Hampshire ConstabularyRecommended 4 Sep 2024Reference 2023/1853891 indexed recommendation

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

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendations - North Yorkshire Police, August 2024

North Yorkshire PoliceRecommended 20 Aug 2024Reference 2021/1579802 indexed recommendations

Custody and detention · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendation - Greater Manchester Police, July 2024

Greater Manchester PoliceRecommended 29 Jul 2024Reference 2023/1966851 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Recommendations - Northumbria Police, July 2024

Northumbria PoliceRecommended 24 Jul 2024Reference 2023/1939883 indexed recommendations

Mental health · Welfare and vulnerable people

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

National recommendations - College of Policing, July 2024

Recommended 18 Jul 2024Reference 2022/1768002 indexed recommendations

Death and serious injury

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%