Police complaints and body worn video

Freedom of Information Act request number: 2022-099

Version date: 04/03/2022

The Professional Standards Department have provided the following information for Q1 and 2:

Included in the totals will be complaints where an individual officer or member of staff has not been identified as subject of the complaint. However as these could be police officers I have included them within the total for transparency purposes.

1. The number of recorded complaints against police officers in Dorset for the years 2016/17, 2018/19 and 2020/21. 

Year recorded	Number of complaints
2016/17	482
2018/19	533
2020/21	704

2. The average time taken to handle complaints lodged against police officers in Dorset for the years 2016/17, 2018/19 and 2020/21.

Year recorded	Average Investigation Days
2016/17	123
2018/19	162
2020/21	144

3. The recorded number of assaults on police officers in Dorset for the years 20216/17, 2018/19 and 2020/21. 

The health & Safety Unit only hold financial year figures from 17/18 onwards. Prior to that all figures are held by calendar year 

Year recorded	Assaults on officers
2018/19	209
2020/21	191

 

4. The projected total cost for the roll out of body worn video cameras (BWV) in Dorset out to financial year 2022/23.

The rollout of Body Worn Video (BWV) in Dorset and Devon & Cornwall started in 2016 and went live across the Alliance in April 2018.

See link below for more details:

https://www.dorset.police.uk/news-information/body-worn-video/

Therefore there is no projected cost to roll out the technology in 2022-23