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Table 6: Number of allegations logged - what has been complained about in 2025/26

Table 6: Number of allegations logged - what has been complained about in 2025/26

Police force	Delivery of duties and service	Police powers, policies and procedures	Handling of or damage to property/ premises	Access and/or disclosure of information	Use of police vehicles	Discriminatory behaviour	Abuse of position/ corruption	Individual behaviours	Sexual conduct	Discreditable conduct	Other	Grand Total
Avon and Somerset	3,486	899	247	126	71	214	129	751	22	37	11	5,993
Bedfordshire	1,203	467	76	62	21	91	5	275	1	1	11	2,213
British Transport	399	457	44	11	17	41	1	219	4	19	11	1,223
Cambridgeshire	971	505	65	43	13	98	5	295	3	0	2	2,000
Cheshire	1,606	787	102	100	60	78	49	407	3	22	0	3,214
City of London	167	81	27	11	6	19	3	37	0	4	8	363
Cleveland	1,664	798	248	79	41	51	12	614	1	15	17	3,540
Cumbria	875	413	115	42	30	39	30	290	3	26	5	1,868
Derbyshire	2,598	1,025	50	71	37	82	25	430	2	5	9	4,334
Devon and Cornwall	3,498	1,231	126	117	50	56	55	564	12	55	69	5,833
Dorset	1,333	510	128	92	29	48	91	389	6	13	12	2,651
Durham	1,327	574	128	31	36	28	4	284	2	7	1	2,422
Dyfed-Powys	783	333	38	38	19	22	17	165	10	7	9	1,441
Essex	4,121	1,322	225	151	78	242	38	1,047	11	50	45	7,330
Gloucestershire	1,508	428	86	41	47	32	15	202	8	24	47	2,438
Greater Manchester	9,209	4,047	943	271	170	575	104	2,772	31	107	28	18,257
Gwent	578	184	6	17	4	5	3	58	3	4	11	873
Hampshire	3,072	1,787	253	182	96	152	24	700	8	52	42	6,368
Hertfordshire	1,660	518	119	47	19	88	11	484	3	5	1	2,955
Humberside	2,274	660	52	95	28	33	12	272	4	8	210	3,648
Kent	3,759	1,968	138	195	32	183	62	930	16	76	19	7,378
Lancashire	2,437	1,046	82	114	45	105	44	400	9	17	31	4,330
Leicestershire	1,819	681	137	72	33	114	32	453	3	7	8	3,359
Lincolnshire	1,660	613	101	40	50	45	16	342	1	5	19	2,892
Merseyside	1,751	960	219	161	74	83	21	417	7	19	28	3,740
Metropolitan	15,982	4,682	644	335	190	842	112	1,111	66	163	508	24,635
Norfolk	722	356	40	34	5	48	43	291	2	0	0	1,541
North Wales	513	332	15	46	9	21	25	145	4	6	66	1,182
North Yorkshire	999	509	63	37	54	25	22	166	2	9	31	1,917
Northamptonshire	1,725	611	99	127	39	106	57	337	4	7	4	3,116
Northumbria	3,841	1,580	379	235	88	155	47	1,191	7	10	135	7,668
Nottinghamshire	2,052	779	150	69	37	115	46	483	16	25	44	3,816
Report Fraud	591	1		4		8	3	2			2	611
South Wales	2,443	939	190	109	59	160	57	840	2	34	8	4,841
South Yorkshire	2,525	983	95	95	36	66	54	484	7	58	29	4,432
Staffordshire	1,601	693	95	65	37	42	28	503	5	4	25	3,098
Suffolk	610	332	37	39	8	44	24	216				1,310
Surrey	1,962	1,282	234	192	72	91	28	535	16	31	66	4,509
Sussex	2,541	976	119	78	40	115	30	528	4	40	120	4,591
Thames Valley	3,221	1,476	201	133	63	213	33	442	2	27	18	5,829
Warwickshire	691	241	25	29	19	10		133	1	6	25	1,180
West Mercia	1,390	558	91	53	35	26	7	208	3	8	8	2,387
West Midlands	3,419	1,331	103	93	37	79	30	387	3	121	85	5,688
West Yorkshire	2,645	1,512	272	163	72	304	75	546	16	42	89	5,736
Wiltshire	1,061	512	80	31	28	67	16	304	9	16	3	2,127
Grand Total	104,292	41,979	6,687	4,176	2,034	5,061	1,545	21,649	342	1,192	1,920	190,877
% of Grand Total	55	22	4	2	1	3	1	11	0	1	1	100

The number of allegations logged presented in this table are only those with a category recorded. Therefore they may not match the actual number of allegations logged presented in Table 5.