Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which senior police officer is responsible for the police’s national strategy for digital Intelligence and investigations including online abuse.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
Commissioner Ian Dyson, City of London Police and Chair of IMORCC (Information Management & Operational Requirements Coordination Committee), is the senior police officer who led on the development of the National Policing Digital Strategy (Digital, Data and Technology Strategy 2020-2030).
One key ambition of the Strategy is investment to ensure policing, from leadership through to the front line, are equipped with the right digital knowledge, skills and tools to deal with increasingly complex crimes. A further ambition of the Strategy is to harness the power of digital technologies and behaviours to identify the risk of harm and protect the vulnerable in both the physical and the digital world.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) Police Officers and (b) Police employees are subject to (i) suspension from duties and (ii) a restriction on duties on an annual basis in each of the last five years by Police Constabulary.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers who are suspended (as at 31st March each year) and the number who are on restricted or adjusted duties in each police force in England and Wales on an annual basis.
These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins. The latest data available on the number of police officers who are suspended, as at 31 March 2019, can be found in Table W2 of the accompanying Data Tables:
Data on the number of police officers who were suspended as at 31 March in each of the last 5 years in each police constabulary can be found in Police Workforce Absence open data:
The latest data available on the number of police officers who are on restricted or adjusted duties, as at 31 March 2019, can be found in Table W3 of the accompanying Data Tables:
It is not possible to separate out officers on restricted duties from those on adjusted duties.
The Home Office does not collect data on the number of other police employees who are suspended or on adjusted/restricted duties.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the time taken by Police Constabularies to resolve complaints involving police (a) officers and (b) employees.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) determines the information that police forces are required to collect on police complaints. The data is published by the IOPC on its website and through an annual Police Complaints Statistics report.
The data includes the number of complaints received by each force, the types of complaint and the time taken to deal with them.
The Government has developed a comprehensive package of reforms to the police complaints system to increase transparency and the timeliness with which complaints are handled. These reforms are set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and will be implemented early next year, Parliamentary time permitting.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what obligations each police constabulary has to collect data on (a) the number of complaints received within the force area and (b) the type of complaints received.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) determines the information that police forces are required to collect on police complaints. The data is published by the IOPC on its website and through an annual Police Complaints Statistics report.
The data includes the number of complaints received by each force, the types of complaint and the time taken to deal with them.
The Government has developed a comprehensive package of reforms to the police complaints system to increase transparency and the timeliness with which complaints are handled. These reforms are set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and will be implemented early next year, Parliamentary time permitting.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she plans to take to improve the (a) transparency and (b) speed of police complaints handling.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) determines the information that police forces are required to collect on police complaints. The data is published by the IOPC on its website and through an annual Police Complaints Statistics report.
The data includes the number of complaints received by each force, the types of complaint and the time taken to deal with them.
The Government has developed a comprehensive package of reforms to the police complaints system to increase transparency and the timeliness with which complaints are handled. These reforms are set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and will be implemented early next year, Parliamentary time permitting.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) police officers and (b) other police employees were subject to (i) suspension from duties and (ii) restricted duties in each of the last five years in (A) each police constabulary and (B) the police force as a whole.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Home Office collects and publishes statistics on the number of police officers who are suspended (as at 31st March each year) and the number who are on restricted or adjusted duties in each police force in England and Wales on an annual basis.
These data are published in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletins. The latest data available on the number of police officers who are suspended, as at 31 March 2019, can be found in Table W2 of the accompanying Data Tables:
Data on the number of police officers who were suspended as at 31 March in each of the last 5 years in each police constabulary can be found in Police Workforce Absence open data:
The latest data available on the number of police officers who are on restricted or adjusted duties, as at 31 March 2019, can be found in Table W3 of the accompanying Data Tables:
It is not possible to separate out officers on restricted duties from those on adjusted duties.
The Home Office does not collect data on the number of other police employees who are suspended or on adjusted/restricted duties.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the time taken by police constabularies to resolve complaints involving police officers and other police force employees.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) determines the information that police forces are required to collect on police complaints. The data is published by the IOPC on its website and through an annual Police Complaints Statistics report.
The data includes the number of complaints received by each force, the types of complaint and the time taken to deal with them.
The Government has developed a comprehensive package of reforms to the police complaints system to increase transparency and the timeliness with which complaints are handled. These reforms are set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and will be implemented early next year, Parliamentary time permitting.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what obligations each police constabulary has to collect data on (a) the number of complaints received in its force area and (b) the type of complaints.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) determines the information that police forces are required to collect on police complaints. The data is published by the IOPC on its website and through an annual Police Complaints Statistics report.
The data includes the number of complaints received by each force, the types of complaint and the time taken to deal with them.
The Government has developed a comprehensive package of reforms to the police complaints system to increase transparency and the timeliness with which complaints are handled. These reforms are set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and will be implemented early next year, Parliamentary time permitting.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to increase the (a) transparency and (b) speed of police complaints handling.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) determines the information that police forces are required to collect on police complaints. The data is published by the IOPC on its website and through an annual Police Complaints Statistics report.
The data includes the number of complaints received by each force, the types of complaint and the time taken to deal with them.
The Government has developed a comprehensive package of reforms to the police complaints system to increase transparency and the timeliness with which complaints are handled. These reforms are set out in the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and will be implemented early next year, Parliamentary time permitting.
Asked by: Maria Miller (Conservative - Basingstoke)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the investigation into allegations of discrimination at the North Hampshire Police Investigation Centre in Basingstoke that commenced in February 2018 will be (a) completed and (b) made public.
Answered by Kit Malthouse
This is an operational matter for Hampshire Constabulary. The Home Office does not comment on on-ging investigations.