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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

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

Recommendation - Suffolk Constabulary, January 2022

Suffolk ConstabularyRecommended 24 Jan 2022Reference 2021/1519781 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: 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

Officers investigate alleged domestic assault while another officer attempted to interfere with the investigation – Sussex Police, August 2019

Sussex PoliceRecommended 19 Jan 2022Reference 2019/1250941 indexed recommendation

Custody and detention · Domestic abuse

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Investigation into police contact with a woman and response to concerns for her welfare prior to her death -North Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Police, January 2019

North Yorkshire PoliceRecommended 18 Jan 2022Reference 2019/125698 and 2019/1259482 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Investigation into police response to a report that a person was missing from home -Northumbria Police, August 2020

Recommended 13 Jan 2022Reference 2020/1419543 indexed recommendations

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

Recommendations - Humberside Police, January 2022

Humberside PoliceRecommended 12 Jan 2022Reference 2021/1521162 indexed recommendations

Custody and detention · Death and serious injury

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Investigation into police contact with a man - Cleveland Police, December 2020

Cleveland PoliceRecommended 7 Jan 2022Reference 2020/1470971 indexed recommendation

Use of force and armed policing

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Man tasered during arrest in the presence of a child – Greater Manchester Police, May 2020

Greater Manchester PoliceRecommended 17 Dec 2021Reference 2020/1356855 indexed recommendations

Use of force and armed policing

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

Failure to stop and police pursuit- Humberside Police, December 2021

Humberside PoliceRecommended 1 Dec 2021Reference 2021/1518311 indexed recommendation

Road traffic incidents

Recommendation 1: Awaiting Response

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

Recommendation - Greater Manchester Police, November 2021

Greater Manchester PoliceRecommended 22 Nov 2021Reference 2020/1427751 indexed recommendation

Death and serious injury · Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Accepted

Operation Linden recommendations - South Yorkshire Police and College of Policing, November 2021

South Yorkshire PoliceRecommended 22 Nov 2021Reference 2014/04011213 indexed recommendations

Child sexual abuse

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: Awaiting Response Recommendation 11: Awaiting Response Recommendation 12: Awaiting Response Recommendation 13: Awaiting Response

Recommendation - West Yorkshire Police, November 2021

West Yorkshire PoliceRecommended 5 Nov 2021Reference 2020/1457571 indexed recommendation

Recommendation 1: 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 - Cambridgeshire Constabulary, September 2021

Cambridgeshire ConstabularyRecommended 6 Sep 2021Reference 2020/1429993 indexed recommendations

Welfare and vulnerable people

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

Recommendations - Wiltshire Police, September 2021

Wiltshire PoliceRecommended 1 Sep 2021Reference 2020/1377403 indexed recommendations

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

Police contact with woman before being murdered by ex-partner – West Yorkshire Police, August 2019

Recommended 26 Aug 2021Reference 2019/1251979 indexed recommendations

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted Recommendation 3: Accepted Recommendation 4: Awaiting Response Recommendation 5: Accepted Recommendation 6: Accepted Recommendation 7: Not Accepted Recommendation 8: Awaiting Response Recommendation 9: Awaiting Response

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

Woman carrying a knife shot by armed officers – Merseyside Police, July 2020

Merseyside PoliceRecommended 29 Jul 2021Reference 2020/1393652 indexed recommendations

Death and serious injury · Use of force and armed policing

Recommendation 1: Accepted Recommendation 2: Accepted

Recommendation - West Yorkshire Police, July 2021

West Yorkshire PoliceRecommended 29 Jul 2021Reference 2020/1427541 indexed recommendation

Welfare and vulnerable people

Recommendation 1: Not Accepted

Teenager took his own life after calling police for assistance – Kent Police, May 2020

Kent PoliceRecommended 27 Jul 2021Reference 2020/1356764 indexed recommendations

Death and serious injury · Welfare and vulnerable people

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

Recommendations - Metropolitan Police Service, July 2021

Recommended 27 Jul 2021Reference 2021/1496402 indexed recommendations

Custody and detention

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%