*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.
The figures for City of London include allegations logged in relation to ‘Action Fraud’. Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime. The service is run by the City of London Police, which is the national policing lead for economic crime.
The figures for City of London include complaint cases logged in relation to ‘Action Fraud’. Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime. The service is run by the City of London Police, which is the national policing lead for economic crime. Further details on these two organisations separately is available via the IOPC website.
Adam Edward Spearritt, 14 years old Alan Johnston, 29 Alan McGlone, 28 Andrew Devine, 55 (22 at the time of the disaster) Anthony David Bland, 22 (18 at the time of the disaster) Anthony Peter Kelly, 29 Arthur Horrocks, 41 Barry Glover, 27 Barry Sidney Bennett, 26 Brian Christopher Matthews, 38 Carl Brown, 18 Carl Darren Hewitt, 17 Carl David Lewis, 18 Carl William Rimmer, 21 Christine Anne Jones, 27 Christopher Barry Devonside, 18 Christopher Edwards, 29 Christopher James Traynor, 26 Colin Andrew Hugh William Sefton, 23 Colin Mark Ashcroft, 19 Colin Wafer, 19 David George Rimmer, 38 David Hawley, 39 David John Benson, 22 David Leonard Thomas, 23 David Steven Brown, 25 David William Birtle, 22 David William Mather, 19 Derrick George Godwin, 24 Eric George Hughes, 42 Eric Hankin, 33 Francis Joseph McAllister, 27 Gary Christopher Church, 19 Gary Collins, 22 Gary Harrison, 27 Gary Philip Jones, 18 Gerard Bernard Patrick Baron, 67 Gordon Rodney Horn, 20 Graham John Roberts, 24 Graham John Wright, 17 Henry Charles Rogers, 17 Ian David Whelan, 19 Ian Thomas Glover, 20 Inger Shah, 38 James Gary Aspinall, 18 James Philip Delaney, 19 James Robert Hennessy, 29 John Alfred Anderson, 62 John McBrien, 18 Jonathon Owens, 18 Jon-Paul Gilhooley, 10 Joseph Clark, 29 Joseph Daniel McCarthy, 21 Keith McGrath, 17 Kester Roger Marcus Ball, 16 Kevin Daniel Williams, 15 Kevin Tyrrell, 15 Lee Nicol, 14 Marian Hazel McCabe, 21 Martin Kenneth Wild, 29 Martin Kevin Traynor, 16 Michael David Kelly, 38 Nicholas Michael Hewitt, 16 Nicholas Peter Joynes, 27 Patrick John Thompson, 35 Paul Anthony Hewitson, 26 Paul Brian Murray, 14 Paul Clark, 18 Paul David Brady, 21 Paul William Carlile, 19 Paula Ann Smith, 26 Peter Andrew Burkett, 24 Peter Andrew Harrison, 15 Peter Francis Tootle, 21 Peter McDonnell, 21 Peter Reuben Thompson, 30 Philip Hammond, 14 Philip John Steele, 15 Raymond Thomas Chapman, 50 Richard Jones, 25 Roy Harry Hamilton, 34 Sarah Louise Hicks, 19 Simon Bell, 17 Stephen Francis Harrison, 31 Stephen Francis O'Neill, 17 Stephen Paul Copoc, 20 Steven Joseph Robinson, 17 Stuart Paul William Thompson, 17 Thomas Anthony Howard, 14 Thomas Howard, 39 Thomas Steven Fox, 21 Tracey Elizabeth Cox, 23 Victoria Jane Hicks, 15 Vincent Michael Fitzsimmons, 34 William Roy Pemberton, 23
At the request of family members, some names have not been included in this list.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) oversees the police complaints system in England and Wales and sets and monitors the standards by which the police should handle complaints.
We investigate the most serious matters, including allegations of serious corruption, and cases where someone has died or been seriously injured following contact with the police. We also consider certain types of reviews from people who are dissatisfied with the way their complaint has been dealt with by a police force.
We play a vital role in improving police practice by ensuring the police are accountable for their actions and lessons are learnt. Working with our partners, service users and communities, we use evidence from our work to influence and drive changes in policing, particularly on issues that we know are affecting community and public confidence. Examples of this include our focus on race discrimination in policing and on the police response to violence against women and girls.
As part of our wider oversight work, we provide guidance to help the police handle complaints at a local level. We also monitor the performance of police force professional standards departments and we hold them to account for their performance in complaint handling.
Along with His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services and the College of Policing, we assess and respond to super-complaints. Super-complaints are made by a range of organisations about broad or systemic issues that could affect public confidence in policing. We also have powers in relation to a number of other organisations that are not police forces but have police-like powers, and we investigate criminal allegations against police and crime commissioners and their deputies.
Our mission is to improve policing by independent oversight of police complaints, holding police to account and ensuring learning effects change. We use learning from our work to influence changes in policing, so that everyone is able to have trust and confidence in the police. We make our decisions completely independent of, and separate from, the police and the Government.
Each year, we publish statistics about the complaints that forces have logged. Our complaints statistics reports include information about the number and type of complaints made. They also set out how these complaints were subsequently dealt with, and include demographic data about who complained and who the complaint was about.
All police officers and police staff must follow the official Standards of Professional Behaviour. The standards that applied in 1989 were set out in the Police Discipline Code 1985, which was published as a Schedule to the Police (Discipline) Regulations 1985. For the purposes of both the IOPC’s and Operation Resolve’s police misconduct investigations, the conduct of officers was assessed against this Code, which set out the professional standards that officers were expected to follow at the time when any breaches of those standards may have been committed.
SCHEDULE 1: DISCIPLINE CODE
1. Discreditable conduct, which offence is committed where a member of a police force acts in a disorderly manner or any manner prejudicial to discipline or reasonably likely to bring discredit on the reputation of the force or of the police service.
2. Misconduct towards a member of a police force, which offence is committed where-
(a) the conduct of a member of a police force towards another such member is oppressive or abusive, or (b) a member of a police force assaults another such member.
3. Disobedience to orders, which offence is committed where a member of a police force, without good and sufficient cause-
(a) disobeys or neglects to carry out any lawful order, written or otherwise; (b) fails to comply with any requirement of a code of practice for the time being in force under section 60 or 66 of the Act of 1984; or (c) contravenes any provision of the Police Regulations containing restrictions on the private lives of members of police forces, or requiring him to notify the chief officer of police that he, or a relation included in his family, has a business interest within the meaning of those Regulations.
4. Neglect of duty, which offence is committed where a member of a police force, without good and sufficient cause-
(a) neglects or omits to attend to or carry out with due promptitude and diligence anything which it is his duty as a member of a police force to attend to or carry out, or (b) fails to work his beat in accordance with orders, or leaves the place of duty to which he has been ordered, or having left his place of duty for an authorised purpose fails to return thereto without undue delay, or (c) is absent without leave from, or is late for, any duty, or (d) fails properly to account for, or to make a prompt and true return of, any money or property received by him in the course of his duty.
5. Falsehood or prevarication, which offence is committed where a member of a police force-
(a) knowingly or through neglect makes any false, misleading or inaccurate oral or written statement or entry in any record or document made, kept or required for police purposes, or (b) either wilfully and without proper authority or through lack of due care destroys or mutilates any record or document made, kept or required for police purposes, or (c) without good and sufficient cause alters or erases or adds to any entry in such a record or document, or (d) has knowingly or through neglect made any false, misleading or inaccurate statement in connection with his appointment to the police force.
6. Improper disclosure of information, which offence is committed where a member of a police force-
(a) without proper authority communicates to any person, any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force, or (b) makes any anonymous communication to any police authority, or any member of a police force, or (c) without proper authority, makes representations to the police authority or the council of any county or district comprised in the police area with regard to any matter concerning the force, or (d) canvasses any member of that authority or of such a council with regard to any such matter.
For the purposes of this paragraph the Isles of Scilly shall be treated as if they were a county.
7. Corrupt or improper practice, which offence is committed where a member of a police force-
(a) in his capacity as a member of the force and without the consent of the chief officer of police or the police authority, directly or indirectly solicits or accepts any gratuity, present or subscription, or (b) places himself under a pecuniary obligation to any person in such a manner as might affect his properly carrying out his duties as a member of the force, or (c) improperly uses, or attempts so to use, his position as a member of the force for his private advantage, or (d) in his capacity as a member of the force and without the consent of the chief officer of police, writes, signs or gives a testimonial of character or other recommendation with the object of obtaining employment for any person or of supporting an application for the grant of a licence of any kind.
8. Abuse of authority, which offence is committed where a member of a police force treats any person with whom he may be brought into contact in the execution of his duty in an oppressive manner and, without prejudice to the foregoing, in particular where he-
(a) without good and sufficient cause conducts a search, or requires a person to submit to any test or procedure, or makes an arrest; or (b) uses any unnecessary violence towards any prisoner or any other person with whom he may be brought into contact in the execution of his duty, or improperly threatens any such person with violence; or (c) is abusive or uncivil to any member of the public.
9. Racially discriminatory behaviour, which offence is committed (without prejudice to the commission of any other offence) where a member of a police force-
(a) while on duty, on the grounds of another person's colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins, acts towards that other person in any such way as is mentioned in paragraph 8 (abuse of authority); or (b) in any other way, on any of those grounds, treats improperly a person with whom he may be brought into contact while on duty.
10. Neglect of health, which offence is committed where a member of a police force, without good and sufficient cause, neglects to carry out any instructions of a medical officer appointed by the police authority or, while absent from duty on account of sickness, commits any act or adopts any conduct calculated to retard his return to duty.
11. Improper dress or untidiness, which offence is committed where without good and sufficient cause a member of a police force while on duty, or while off duty but wearing uniform in a public place, is improperly dressed or is untidy in his appearance.
12. Damage to police property, which offence is committed where a member of a police force-
(a) wilfully or through lack of due care causes any waste, loss or damage to any police property, or (b) fails to report as soon as is reasonably practicable any loss of or damage to any such property issued to, or used by him, or entrusted to his care.
13. Drunkenness, which offence is committed where a member of a police force renders himself unfit through drink for duties which he is or will be required to perform or which he may reasonably foresee having to perform.
14. Drinking on duty or soliciting drink, which offence is committed where a member of a police force, while on duty-
(a) without proper authority, drinks, or receives from any other person, any intoxicating liquor, or (b) demands, or endeavours to persuade any other person to give him, or to purchase or obtain for him, any intoxicating liquor.
15. Entering licensed premises, which offence is committed where a member of a police force-
(a) while on duty, or (b) while off duty but wearing uniform, without good and sufficient cause, enters any premises in respect of which a licence or permit has been granted in pursuance of the law relating to liquor licensing or betting and gaming or regulating places of entertainment.
16. Criminal conduct, which offence is committed where a member of a police force has been found guilty by a court of law of a criminal offence.
17. Being an accessory to a disciplinary offence, which offence is committed where a member of a police force incites, connives at or is knowingly an accessory to any offence against discipline.
