2022/25199 - police misconduct hearings
REQUEST
Freedom of Information request on police misconduct hearings in your force since 31 January 2017
Please can you provide me with the following information on misconduct allegations within your force?
I have laid it out in a table below for clarity but please feel free to provide the data in another format if needed. If the categories asked here are not recorded in exactly the same categories as requested here, please supply the information from your closest equivalent data categorisations.
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Please supply all data on police misconduct and gross misconduct hearings in your police force since January 2017, as follows: |
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Cases where the officer accused was B.A.M.E. (or other categories of ethnicity if the data is stored differently) |
Cases where the officer accused was female (or whichever sex or gender data categories are available) |
Cases where the officer accused was B.A.M.E and female (or whichever ethnicity or sex and gender data is available) |
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Misconduct Total misconduct hearings since Jan 2017 |
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Of those misconduct hearings since Jan 2017, the total heard in private |
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For each of those misconduct hearings heard in private since Jan 2107, the reasons given *please provide separately in each case |
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The total of those misconduct hearings that were publicly accessible since Jan 2017 *please advise on how these are advertised |
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Total misconduct hearings which found against the officers since Jan 2017 |
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Of those cases which found against officers since Jan 2017, the total No. in which the case details were made publicly available (details of the nature of the misconduct) |
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Gross Misconduct Total gross misconduct hearings since January 2017 |
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Of those gross misconduct hearings, the total number heard in private since Jan 2017 |
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Reasons given in each of those gross misconduct hearings heard in private since Jan 2017 *please provide separately in each case |
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Total of those gross misconduct hearings since Jan 2017 that were publicly accessible *please advise on how these are advertised |
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Total of those gross misconduct hearings since Jan 2017 which found against the officers |
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Total of those gross misconduct hearings since Jan 2017 which resulted in the officer being added to the publicly barred list |
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Total gross misconduct cases since Jan 2017 which found against officers in which the details of the case were made publicly available (just the nature of the misconduct) |
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Total gross misconduct cases since Jan 2017 which found against officers where the name of the officer was made publicly available |
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Whistleblowing Total complaints made against officers via the internal whistleblowing line (for officers and police staff) since January 2017 |
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Total complaints made against officers via the internal whistleblowing line relating to sexual harassment (for officers and police staff) since January 2017 |
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RESPONSE
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Please supply all data on police misconduct and gross misconduct hearings in your police force since January 2017, as follows: |
All |
Cases where the officer accused was B.A.M.E. (or other categories of ethnicity if the data is stored differently) |
Cases where the officer accused was female (or whichever sex or gender data categories are available) |
Cases where the officer accused was B.A.M.E and female (or whichever ethnicity or sex and gender data is available) |
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Misconduct Total misconduct Meetings since Jan 2017
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17 |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Female - 3 Male - 16
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B.A.M.E/Female – 0 B.A.M.E/Male - 2 |
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Please note whilst you call it a Misconduct Hearing, it is in fact referred to as a Meeting. Gross Misconduct Matters are referred to as a Hearing.
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Of those misconduct Meetings since Jan 2017, the total heard in private |
17 (Please note all Misconduct Meetings are held in private as per the complaints & conduct Regulations) |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Female - 3 Male - 16
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B.A.M.E/Female – 0 B.A.M.E/Male - 2 |
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For each of those misconduct Meetings heard in private since Jan 2017, the reasons given *please provide separately in each case |
As above |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Female - 3 Male - 16
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B.A.M.E/Female – 0 B.A.M.E/Male - 2 |
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The total of those misconduct Meetings that were publicly accessible since Jan 2017 *please advise on how these are advertised |
As above, held in private and are not advertised as per complaints and conduct regulations |
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Total misconduct Meetings which found against the officers since Jan 2017
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16 |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Female - 3 Male - 15
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B.A.M.E/Female – 0 B.A.M.E/Male - 2 |
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Of those cases which found against officers since Jan 2017, the total No. in which the case details were made publicly available (details of the nature of the misconduct) |
0 As explained above as not a requirement in line with Complaints and Conduct Regulations. |
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Gross Misconduct Total gross misconduct hearings since January 2017 |
17 |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Male – 13 Female - 5 |
B.A.M.E/ Female – 1 B.A.M.E/Male - 1 |
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Of those gross misconduct hearings, the total number heard in private since Jan 2017 |
3 |
B.A.M.E - 0 |
Male – 2 Female – 1 |
B.A.M.E/Female – 0 B.A.M.E/ Male – 0 |
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Reasons given in each of those gross misconduct hearings heard in private since Jan 2017 *please provide separately in each case |
Protection of Witnesses
Protection of relatives
Wellbeing of officer/witnesses |
B.A.M.E - 0 |
Male – 2 Female – 1 |
B.A.M.E/Female – 0 B.A.M.E/ Male – 0 |
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Total of those gross misconduct hearings since Jan 2017 that were publicly accessible *please advise on how these are advertised
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14 – All Advertised on Gwent Police Website |
B.A.M.E - 2 |
Male – 11 Female - 4 |
B.A.M.E/Female – 1 B.A.M.E/Male – 1 |
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Total of those gross misconduct hearings since Jan 2017 which found against the officers |
16 |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Male – 12 Female - 5 |
B.A.M.E/ Female – 1 B.A.M.E/Male - 1 |
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Total of those gross misconduct hearings since Jan 2017 which resulted in the officer being added to the publicly barred list |
14 |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Male – 10 Female - 5 |
B.A.M.E/ Female – 1 B.A.M.E/Male - 1 |
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Total gross misconduct cases since Jan 2017 which found against officers in which the details of the case were made publicly available (just the nature of the misconduct) |
13 |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Male – 10 Female - 4 |
B.A.M.E/ Female – 1 B.A.M.E/Male - 1 |
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Total gross misconduct cases since Jan 2017 which found against officers where the name of the officer was made publicly available
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11 |
B.A.M.E – 2 |
Male – 8 Female - 3 |
B.A.M.E/ Female – 1 B.A.M.E/Male - 1 |
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Please note the number of officers may differ to the number of meetings/ hearings as more than one officer could be subject of the matter |
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Whistleblowing Total complaints made against officers via the internal whistleblowing line (for officers and police staff) since January 2017 |
340 |
Unable to provide this detail due to length of time as would need to check each record manually, this would take the request over 18 hours |
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Total complaints made against officers via the internal whistleblowing line relating to sexual harassment (for officers and police staff) since January 2017 |
8 |
Unable to provide this detail due to length of time as would need to check each record manually. This would take the request over 18 hours |
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Please note Gwent do not have a whistleblowing Line, the reporting mechanism is via Safecall which is a confidential reporting line.