Complaints against Professional Standards Department (PSD)

Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/002699/V

 Version Date: 14/01/2025

Please provide a table of statistics concerning complaints made against police officers and police staff working in the professional standards department (PSD)

Please break this down into:

Criminal allegations - specify
Conduct - specify
Expression of dissatisfaction (leters or emails etc)

The period requested would be for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024.

The Professional Standards Department have provided the following information.

Searches were completed on the Professional Standards Department (PSD) case management system for any complaints and conduct matters recorded between 01/01/2022 to 18/12/2024 against a member of staff or officer who is showing a department on People Finder of PSD at Winfrith HQ, or who was in the department between the dates in question at the time the allegation was received. The results are as follows:

• Criminal allegations – nil return.
• Conduct matters – nil return.
• Complaint cases (which is how an expression of dissatisfaction would be recorded) – 25 cases (2022 – 10, 2023 – 8, 2024 – 7).