Police Perpetrated Domestic Abuse

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/25/003248/B

Version Date: 16/09/2025

The Professional Standards Department and the Alliance Resourcing & Development Department has provided the following information.

Searches were completed on Centurion for all conduct cases recorded between 01/01/2021 to 31/08/2025, relating to Police Officers only, and where the officer is linked as a perpetrator of domestic abuse.

These have been identified by using the PPDA Flags. However, as the national/local factor flags for PPDA were not circulated for use before 2023 keyword searches were conducted in the summary field and each case reviewed for reference to a Police Officer being the perpetrator. The keywords used were: “DA”, “domestic”, “abuse”, “assault”, “wife”, “husband”, “partner”, and “friend” (to capture girlfriend or boyfriend).

I am writing under the Freedom of Information act to request data you have recorded on conduct investigations into police perpetrated domestic abuse (PPDA) led by your police force, from 1 January 2021 to 31 April 2025.
Specifically, I request the following information. Please send the response in an Excel spreadsheet.

1) PPDA CONDUCT CASES. The number of conduct cases instigated against police officers, and the number of individual officers they relate to, involving domestic abuse from 1 January 2021 to 31 April 2025

If your force does not have a specific flag used on Centurion to identify domestic abuse cases, please apply the methodology that you would usually use to identify and report on such cases, for example by searching for key words within the allegation summary field.
Please describe the methodology used. If your methodology is manual and time consuming to the extent that responding to the question would exceed time constraints, please limit your response to a reasonable time frame by starting with a later year, and describe the dates covered.
Please break down the number of cases by year and specify the number of individuals involved as well as the total number of cases:

2) PPDA CONDUCT OFFICER RANK. For the individuals identified above, please specify the rank of the police officer

3) PPDA CONDUCT INITIAL OUTCOMES. For the cases identified above, please break down the initial outcomes of all conduct cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

4) PPDA CONDUCT CASE TO ANSWER OUTCOMES. For the cases identified above where there was a case to answer, please break down the action taken for all such cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

5) PPDA CONDUCT FORMAL ACTION TAKEN. For the cases identified above where there was formal action taken, please break down the sanction enforced, for all such cases over the entire period (not broken down by year or rank etc).

 6) SIZE OF WORKFORCE. Please provide a snapshot of the number of police officers working for your force as of 31st December each year, and on 31st April 2025, by group of rank.
If that is not possible, please provide a snapshot at another specified date each year.

The data below was accurate as of the dates that the reports were run, these being 31st December for 2021-2024 and 30th April for 2025. The numbers do not include any officers that were on Career Break or on External Secondment.